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I love The New Girl. From the economically unrealistic loft apartment they inhabit to Schmidt’s clumsy and unrequited affection for CeCe; from Nick Miller’s...
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I love The New Girl. From the economically unrealistic loft apartment they inhabit to Schmidt’s clumsy and unrequited affection for CeCe; from Nick Miller’s...
Hey, Brigateers! It was a struggle to get this week’s piece together (slightly late: sorry, Ed), as my last few weeks have been jam-packed...
Ave, Centurions! Well, I’m slowly ramping-down on reading the pile of fiction books I have as shooting on PANZER 88 looms, transferring affections to...
Hi, Crazy-Gang. And, welcome to this week’s “Penned-So-Randomly-It’s-As-If-I’m-Rolling-Dice” go-round of everything that tickles my cerebellum. I’ve had an exhausting rollercoaster of a week. Unfortunately,...
Easily the biggest piece of entertainment news this month was that the Veronica Mars Kickstarter campaign raised several million dollars overnight. As many people...
Dear Reader (and Hollywood), I have contributed to Forces of Geek for a little over a year now, writing about 25 columns which you...
Dear Hollywood, I flew in the face of tradition this year and watched the Oscars the day after it took place, not wanting to...
When I think of Hollywood in the 1950s and ‘60s, one thing that quickly comes to mind are movies that were so long that...
Stephen Ezard (Benedict Cumberbatch) returns to a near-future England in the wake of his brother’s death. He meets his brother’s widow, and the seriously...
As the Manti Te’o controversy has been fiercely raging for the last several weeks, the reactions in the comments sections of online media outlets...
Dear Hollywood, I am partial to a touch of illegal downloading, especially when it comes to certain overpriced computer software, but when my friend...
We all know that the last season of Homeland was below par — I’m not going to relitigate that. But what I find striking...
We’ve been so inundated with super hero movies in the last decade that we’re now well into reboot territory. In 2012 Spider-Man was rebooted,...
There are three things I loathe about anime fans above anything else: 1. People who say ‘animes’. THERE IS NO SUCH THING. With the...
My first reaction to announcement of Star Wars Episode VII, was an intense feeling of dread — like a great disturbance in the force....
Dear Hollywood, I am excited about the upcoming release of feathers and pearls fest The Great Gatsby, and hope Hollywood continues to plunder more...
After having cable TV for my entire adult life, last year I decided to cut the cord. Obviously, life went on. While I’m not...
Like discussions on religious beliefs or which Batman movie was best, politics is a topic better left untapped for the sake of avoiding a...
Let’s get this out of the way up front: The Dark Knight Rises is not as amazing as its stupendous predecessor, but it’s pretty...
Dear Hollywood, I am not going to review the new Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, because: a) I am not eloquent enough to...
Dear Hollywood, There is an already notorious scene in the new William Friedkin film Killer Joe, where Matthew McConaughey humiliates the double-crossing Gina Gershon...
Isn’t everyone talking about Magic Mike, the movie that has male strippers in it but isn’t really about male strippers? The fiancee saw it...
Granted, it’s no Alien or Aliens, but Ridley Scott’s beautiful, provocative and frustrating Prometheus easily surpasses the grim Alien 3 and the schlocky Alien:...
Dear Hollywood, If you put aside the patchy script, over ambitious but under explained themes, array of dodgy accents, barely developed characterization and miscasting...