Category Archives: Netflix Diaries

X-MEN 3, Otherwise known as X3: The Last Stand X3 isn’t really a movie I plan on enjoying. The reviews were mixed, and the film it follows (X2, of course) was a bit of a mess, especially at the end. … Continue reading →

So, here’s my question:  Did the whole “people getting hit by buses coming from stage left” thing start with Final Destination, or did it start somewhere else?  Because these days every other movie seems to have one of these deadly … Continue reading →

“I drink your milkshake, see?  And your mom’s milkshake, and that milkshake that brought all the whatever to the yard!  My straw is a super-straw, see?  It reaches across the room to your milkshake, and I drink it.  I drink … Continue reading →

I like to think of Accepted as a metaphor for what happens when you take a Mac off to college instead of a PC.  With a PC, you get to go to school and learn.  With a Mac, you get … Continue reading →

About one hour into 25th Hour, I was calling it a great movie.  One character had just explained to another character that their friend, who was going off to prison the next day, would never be heard from again.  The … Continue reading →

Pronounced Soy Koobah, the 1964 Russian propaganda film that celebrated the misguided Cuban Revolution is given the standard documentary treatment here in The Siberian Mammoth.  What I mean by “standard treatment” is this: Vincente Ferraz finds a bunch of actors … Continue reading →

(no, I don’t just see movies these days…there’s more stuff to post, it’s just that these are slightly easier to knock out quickly.  Let’s all take a step back and enjoy what we have, shall we?) Being a fan of … Continue reading →

(He’s blue, ba-ba-di bab-ba-doo) I feel especially qualified to comment on the movie Darkon because of all the nerd cred I’ve accrued over the years.  I do work with computers, after all.  And I have played role-playing games.  Therefore, I … Continue reading →