Friday Five: Favorite Tom Cruise Movies

Posted November 20th, 2009 and filed under movies.

Jerry Maquire Top Gun Vanilla Sky Minority Report Born on the Fourth of July

Friday Five: Favorite Indiana Jones Scenes

Posted October 2nd, 2009 and filed under movies.

When he’s complaining to Marion about his injuries on the boat When he runs away from the giant boulder at the beginning of Raiders When the pirate points to him swimming towards the submarine When he’s just about to cut the rope bridge When he’s fighting the Nazis on the truck with the Ark Bonus:… Read more »

Star Wars Design Flaws

Posted August 21st, 2009 and filed under comedy, movies, technology.

Note to the Emperor: Someone on your Death Star design staff is in the pay of Rebel forces. Oh, right, you can’t get the memo because someone threw you down a huge exposed shaft in your Death Star throne room. from John Scalzi’s Guide to the Most Epic FAILs in Star Wars Design

What about Sicko?

Posted June 18th, 2009 and filed under movies, News.

Does anyone have any idea why the Michael Moore film about health insurance in America, Sicko, got nowhere near the same amount of publicity as Bowling for Columbine or Fahrenheit 9/11? I’m not asking how you feel about the message / content of any of these films. I’m just trying to understand why Sicko seemed… Read more »

Friday Five – Harrison Ford Movies

Posted May 29th, 2009 and filed under movies.

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Star Wars (1977) Presumed Innocent (1990) Clear and Present Danger (1994) Witness (1985)

Why the Original “Star Trek” Still Matters

Posted May 13th, 2009 and filed under media, movies.

Listen: I was never a huge Trek fan. I was always Star Wars all the way. After school my sister and I watched cartoons — Tom & Jerry, Bugs Bunny, Superfriends — and then, because we were usually with my grandparents, the standard early 80s grandparent shows: Happy Days, Barney Miller, Alice, and M*A*S*H. It… Read more »

Friday Five: Comedies

Posted April 3rd, 2009 and filed under comedy, movies.

Five Classics That I’ll Watch Every Time: Fletch Bull Durham Airplane Soapdish A Fish Called Wanda

Friday Five: Nicolas Cage Movies

Posted February 27th, 2009 and filed under movies.

Five favorite Nicolas Cage movies: Honeymoon in Vegas – 1992 Next – 2007 Wild at Heart – 1990 National Treasure – 2004 The Rock – 1996

Friday Five: Tom Hanks Movies

Posted February 20th, 2009 and filed under movies.

Five favorite Tom Hanks movies: The ‘Burbs – 1989 Sleepless in Seattle – 1993 Saving Private Ryan – 1998 Apollo 13 – 1995 You’ve Got Mail – 1998

Movies in 2008

Posted January 11th, 2009 and filed under media, movies.

You say you want an alphabetized list of all the movies I saw in 2008? I can do that.

Amy Winehouse Is Dead Sexy

Posted January 5th, 2009 and filed under movies, music.

Is it just me or does Amy Winehouse look amazingly similar to Tim Curry as Frank N. Furter from the Rocky Horror Picture Show? </barf>

E. Baldi

Posted December 24th, 2008 and filed under Los Angeles.

Just around the corner from Spago in Beverly Hills is a terrific little establishment named E. Baldi. (It’s the sister restaurant of just about the best place to eat in Los Angeles, Giorgio Baldi.) I had the amazing garganelle with meat sauce tonight, and didn’t realize until I was walking out the door that I… Read more »