By floor9 on Feb 23, 2008 in Movies / TV | 2 Comments
You know, that movie about that guy who has a video store that still rents videos and they all get erased because Jack Black’s character, in a delusional fit of paranoia, attacks his local electrical substation to stop its mind-control rays from invading his trailer every night when he goes to sleep? It’s out as […]
By floor9 on Dec 19, 2007 in Movies / TV | 4 Comments
It’s not just the utility companies. I received this today in my inbox:
By floor9 on Nov 14, 2007 in Movies / TV | 5 Comments
Yesterday was quite the adventure for me. Among other things, my Element turned 100,000 (which, being a Honda, means it’s about a third of the way through its useful life), I discovered Jazzy Java over at the Hard Bean Cafe in Camp Hill (next to the DQ that just burned down), and I apparently became […]
By floor9 on Jun 27, 2007 in Media, Movies / TV, Rant | 3 Comments
One of my frequent complaints — one which I spare the readers of this blog — is our national media. Wildfires burning out of control get pushed off the front page because “OMG PARIS HILTON GOT IN A CAR”. CNN reserves its “Breaking News” banners for such critical events as a pro wrestler’s […]
By floor9 on Aug 13, 2006 in Movies / TV | 0 Comments
I went out to see World Trade Center this past week. Cinema Center, of course. Overall it was pretty good, but I thought a lot of the dialogue was campy. And frankly, Oliver Stone’s “one plane theory” was pretty ridiculous. The part where he kept showing the south tower sway “back, […]
By floor9 on Jun 18, 2006 in Central PA, Movies / TV | 2 Comments
The film version (using amazing RotoScope technology) of the Philip K. Dick novel A Scanner Darkly is coming to Harrisburg July 28th. I’m not sure who’s going to be running it yet, but it’s pretty cool that we’re getting our hands on what’s going to be a limited release (this movie is not going […]