The Crazies (***)
2001:A Space Odyssey and the iPad (or is it tamPod?)
Can We Stop Airline Terrorism?
Sherlock Holmes (***)
Paranormal Activity (***)
The Ruling Class (****)
Zombieland (***½)
The Informant! (***½)
Moon (***½)
Extract (***)
Asian Cajun Bar and Grill (***½)
Review of the BT Longhorn Saloon & Steakhouse (***½)
Wonderful Weagle
A Day in the Life of a Typical American, or how I learned to stop worrying and not be hypocritical about
District 9 (***½)Iron Man (***½)
When I heard they were making a big screen version of the Iron Man comic books (sorry, graphic novels don’t exist, losers) it felt like a body blow - yet another crude and artless raping and pillaging of our cultural history by Hollywood in pursuit of dollars. Then I heard that the lead was being played by…Robert Downey, Jr!??!? Um, I’m sorry, I’m afraid I didn’t hear that right…did you say Robert Downey, Jr. would be playing Iron Man???? That…doesn’t make any sense…at all. I mean, once I thought about it, it sounded slightly interesting, but what in the world were the Hollywood studio execs thinking? You have to have a big name star to go in your big budget picture with the big special effects and the big promotional tie-ins so you get the big box