Archive for 'Movies'

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Jeff - May 18th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Category: Movies | tagged fantasy, summer

Week three of May Movie Mania brought The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. The move is a worthy big screen follow up to The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.
This film picks up a year after the kids came home from Narina and we catch up with them just as they are about to [...]

Friday Geek Out: WarGames

Jeff - May 16th, 2008 at 4:30 am
Category: Geek Out, Movies | tagged drama

After writing about the kooky computer movie Tron last week, I thought I’d go for the more thrilling computer movie WarGames this week. WarGames hit theaters in 1983, the summer after Tron. And what a difference a year makes.
Where Tron was an unrealistic look at computers; WarGames gave audiences a look at something that was [...]

Speed Racer

Jeff - May 11th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Category: Movies | tagged summer, video

Wow! This was a fun movie. Speed Racer is the second entry in May Movie Mania and it is completely enjoyable. The best of the movie are all of the race sequences. It is amazing to watch the cars zip around the tracks, banging into each other and doing everything necessary to win the races. [...]

Friday Geek Out: Tron

Jeff - May 9th, 2008 at 4:30 am
Category: Geek Out, Movies | tagged sci-fi

Summer 1982… 26 years ago… one of the huge summer blockbusters was supposed to be Disney’s Tron. Released in July, it was a pretty huge flop, grossing only $33 million domestically. Audiences just weren’t into spending a couple hours of their summer looking at the Dinsey-ized insides of a computer. To my 14-year-old self at [...]

Shelter & Kiss Me Deadly

Jeff - May 5th, 2008 at 8:02 am
Category: Life in General, Movies | tagged drama, gay, thriller

Here! Films is now consistently making great gay-themed films. We caught two of the latest on Here! TV this weekend and recommend them both.
Shelter is a moving drama about a young 20-something who has given up his own dreams to help take care of his nephew because his sister isn’t very good at being [...]

Iron Man

Jeff - May 2nd, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Category: Movies | tagged summer, superhero

May Movie Mania got underway today with Iron Man. Marvel has had quite a good track record in the past few summers, claiming summer success with Spider-Man, X-Men and Fantastic Four movies. Iron Man stands well along side the first installments of Spider-Man and X-Men as a solid introduction to a favorite comic book character.
The [...]

Friday Geek Out: Dance

Jeff - Apr 25th, 2008 at 4:30 am
Category: Geek Out, Movies, Theatre | tagged Billy Eliot, Bob Fosse, dance, Dancing with the Stars, video

This is an odd Geek Out, but I feel it has been brewing for quite some time. It really became apparent as I started moving blog entires from the old blog into the new one, that I am pretty obsessed with dance. It’s an obsession I’ve had for quite some time.
Zoom back to sixth grade [...]

Friday Geek Out: Out of Africa

Jeff - Apr 18th, 2008 at 4:45 am
Category: Geek Out, Movies | tagged drama, video

Spring time… it’s been a gorgeous week this week and that’s had me thinking about outside a lot. The outside has moved my thoughts to the film Out of Africa (no one said my mind worked in the most logical of ways). This film has some of the most gorgeous outdoor photography of any film [...]

Four Letter Word

Jeff - Apr 13th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Category: Movies | tagged gay, video

A Four Letter Word, a nice, independently-produced romantic comedy. There three stories in play here: Luke is a party boy (rightfully called a gay cliche early in the film), but he’s discovered there might be more to life than just one night stands; Peter and Derek just moved in together and are experiencing some of [...]