Don Jon

Don Jon

  Once upon a time, maybe in 2007 or 2008, I passed Joseph Gordon-Levitt on the streets of Manhattan during my lunch break. Back then he was just that kid from Third Rock from the Sun to me. If only I knew then that I’d become one of the biggest J.G.L. fans on the planet, […]

It’s a Disaster (The Long and Short of It)

It's a Disaster, directed and written by Todd Berger; starring David Cross, Julie Stiles, Erinn Hayes, Blaise Miller, and America Ferrera

  Written and Directed by Todd Berger.       Glen and Tracy (played by David Cross and Julia Stiles) have been on a few dates, and it’s finally time to do the awkward yet obligatory introduction to friends. Tracy’s married friends, Emma and Pete (played by Erinn Hayes and Blaise Miller) host a routine […]

Elysium (The Long and the Short of It)

Elysium

  In 141 years from now, Earth will be so overpopulated that the wealthiest people will abandon the planet and establish their home  in an orbiting space station called Elysium. Earth will belong to the downtrodden, and the never the two groups shall meet. That’s where things stand at the beginning of Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium. […]

Fantastic News about Fantastic Beasts

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, by Newt Scamander (J.K. Rowling).

Are you ready for a new set of Harry Potter movies? Well that’s too bad because you’re not going to be getting any (sorry). However, you will be getting a new series of films set in the same universe. Author J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros are launching a whole new series which will be based […]

My Month With MoviePass: August 2013

Movie Pass Debit Card

“Time is a face on the water.” – Stephen King, The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass Writing these monthly MoviePass recaps is making me realize just how quickly time sails by. It feels like just a couple of weeks ago I was googling random facts about August to dazzle you guys, and now I’m […]

In a World

  Don LaFontaine is probably the most famous voiceover actor of all time. Even if you’ve never heard of him, you have heard him before. If you’ve watched TV ads, you’ve heard Don LaFontaine. (He’s voiced hundreds of thousands of TV ads.) If you’ve watched movie trailers in the last fifty years, you’ve heard Don […]

You’re Next

  When a horror movie can integrate comedy in a believable way, I’m always a happy customer. As a teenager in the 90’s, I was in love with the self-referential Scream trilogy. In the early 2000’s Shaun of the Dead upturned the zombie genre and became an instant favorite of mine. Last year’s Cabin in the Woods took […]