9.0 Dodgeball

…what I've been up to, more or less…

9.0 No Country For Old Men

Bring your expectations of standard Hollywood conventions to this movie and you’ll be left hanging in a big way. I always preach that it’s great to break the rules and veer away from the formulas in movies once in a while (check out this excellent article on “plot...
9.5 Breaking Bad

This show is a gift to guys in midlife crisis that dream every day about how they can put it all out there. Jessie’s girl rolled him over first, man she loved him. Hurts so good. You wicked tease writers, start cranking out your goodness again! ...
9.5 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

From the “Chapter 19 and holding” department… Inspired by the Gillespie family experiment, the Behrns-Millers have all decided to belatedly crank through all that is Harry Potter. We’re knee-deep in the books, audio books, and movies. Maybe they’re to blame for...
9.5 Julian Casablancas – Phrazes for the Young

I’ve always enjoyed bands that obviously put their time in composing their music. It’s especially fun when the sound can be converted to something that sounds more live. Bands like The Strokes and Collective Soul and The The sound like guitar bands, but they are so tight and...
Vegans on the loose

Here’s the 17 pounds of food we ate tonight… ...
9.0 Melinda and Melinda

I’ll say it again, Woody Allen has made my life richer. He’s on track again with this one. It springboards off an intellectual discussion around a table at a NYC restaurant with Wallace Shawn proposing that “we run to comedies to hide from our deep dark fears of our...
9.0 Pirates of the Carribean

Ahoy! You there! Go see this, ya scurvey-riddled scum, ya! It was an awesome good time – Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom both ripped it up, big time… ...
[8.5] Devdas

What an epic! Intricately detailed sets and costumes frame this three hour epic tragedy. And of course every Aishwarya movie makes my list. ...