The other day, I bought a stick on eBay. A really big stick. Actually, it’s 44″ long and made out of latex and a metal tube. This stick was “supposedly” used in the Tim Burton Planet of the Apes movie. It came from a prop warehouse and arrived with a beautiful, signed color photocopy of a […]
Top 10 Marvel Movies
The other day, I saw an article on this topic over on Buzzfeed and immediately wanted to write my own list. I decided to expand my list to the entire Marvel universe of movies and not limit it to just the Avengers. I thought I might even expand the list even further to include ALL superhero movies, but […]
Don’t touch that dial!
Do people still flip through channels anymore? I know I do, but the way technology is always on-demand now, and some people bypass broadcast TV altogether, maybe the serendipitous nature of channel surfing has faded away. This got me thinking about the way some movies always seem to grab my attention, whether it’s a lazy […]
The Age of Apocalypse
I had a pretty depressing weekend. The world as we know it ended–three times. By a strange set of circumstances, I was able to see three new movies and they were all pretty big downers in their own way. It was the Age of Apocalypse. First up was X-Men: Days of Future Past, which showed the end […]
It’s just not Summer without a big budget blockbuster
For me, nothing says summer like a big, loud, action-packed movie. Living in Virginia, summer can be miserable, with temperatures soaring into near triple digits and 90% humidity. There’s no better escape than the over-chilled confines of the multiplex. To be honest, I don’t make it out to the theater all that often anymore, preferring to sit […]
“Auction of the Apes” at Blacksparrow Auctions
whoa. You can bet I’ll be writing more on this later, but the auction is live now over at Blacksparrow Auctions. Anyone have $8,000 I can borrow?