Passing of a legend

Kurt Vonnegut had died. Dammit. I remember junior high in Hawai’i, digging around in the storeroom between the A/V lab and the library and finding Slaughterhouse-Five buried in a cabinet. It was the early eighties!? My last memory of him (we weren’t close) was on “Real Time” giving Bush the verbal finger, last year. Godspeed, [...]

Nut-riders of the purple sage

OK…at some point I’m going to see “Grindhouse“. It’s a given due to the subjects of the movies and the actors within. I am torn due to the love/hate relationship I have with the two directors. First read the review from Harry Knowles, nut-riding savant. OK. No, I don’t harken back to the “grindhouse” theater [...]

In a world….

This guy is The voice of movie previews. The big joke is the string of trailers he did that all seemed to start with, “In a world where…”. It’s really just indicative of the fact that Hollywood can’t come up with anything original…even for the previews. Not that that stopped me from renting “Doom“…