Alas! The moment I have finally been waiting for. After two weeks of staring out windows each day to see what the mailman had brought me, I finally get my comics that everyone else has been reading for the past two weeks. Apparently they don’t understand how little I like to wait for these things… […]
Read more "My Week in Comics (Part 1) – Action, Bats, and Arrows"Growing up in St. Louis, baseball has always been an important part of my life. I made myself sick on stadium food as a child, I was way too proud of myself when my neighbor came over to compliment the strength of my pitch into my father’s glove, currently strangers and I are bonded in […]
Read more "Film Review: Moneyball"With Smallville finally bowing out after 10 seasons and my lack of enthusiasm for The Ringer, The CW actually became a channel with fewer shows adding to my viewing pleasure than CBS. Gasp! But now they are back fighting head to head with 2v2 thanks to the series premiere of The Secret Circle, a show […]
Read more "TV Ramblings – The Secret Circle “Pilot”"And I am back with “For Your Renting Pleasure,” a supposed-to-be-weekly post that made it maybe 2 weeks tops before fizzling out. My bad. For those of you who don’t remember this is basically a compilation post of movies I watched that week of the non-new-release variety, whether they be rentals, watched through the Netflix […]
Read more "For Your Renting Pleasure"I don’t know if I would go as far as Zac does by saying that Drive is the best film of the year considering just how different it is from Bridesmaids and Super 8 (my previous favorites) and thus are pretty incomparable, but I’ll call it a three way tie.
Read more "Film Review: Drive"Can I just ask this question? Where the heck do these viewing audiences being spied on with night vision goggles in commercials come from? Either they are the jumpiest scaredy-cats on the planet or they are big fat liar faces! That’s right, viewing audiences! I will give you the eye covering, and even occasional muffled […]
Read more "Film Review: Straw Dogs"Two seconds prior to the movie starting a man to the far right of where I was sitting starting hacking, as if on cue. This was followed by a sporadic slew of coughing throughout the film, followed by a general ill feeling moving through my body, throat to stomach. These are the things you are […]
Read more "Film Review: Contagion"[Deep breath] Oh comic smell, how I have missed thee. Yes, A while back I said something about reading more comics, and well, as the piles of unread comics on my dresser goes to show I am a big, stupid liar face. My excuse? I decided to take a rowboat trip across the ocean and […]
Read more "My Week in Comics – Justice League #1 & Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1"For ages and ages (I have a knack for exaggeration) I have been hearing nothing but praise for Attack the Block from places all over the country. Week after week I continued to check Fandango for Friday releases in hopes that it would finally grace the fine people of STL with its presence, but each […]
Read more "Film Review: Attack the Block"When I see films like this I start to think about how The Bourne Identity and its sequels have ruined the espionage genre for many people, sometimes me included. Why I say this is because it created this want for people to Bourne out on everyone they come across, fighting for survival and being totally […]
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Middle of the Row 