Self Improvement

…you get to kill people off, but crack a bunch of jokes along the way, rather in the way that Die Hard is a much better Hamlet than Hamlet was.

…and I don’t have to worry about how they’ll pay for college. If they poop their pants, all the better.

Alice in Wonderland did something I didn’t expect and which pleased me much: it integrated The Jabberwocky into the story. The miniature adventure story told in that poem packed with silly words became the thread that pulled together many disparate parts, and gave the movie a skeleton upon which to pile meat and gravy. I … Read more

I watched two movies this weekend, which is a lot for me to see in their entirety. I see lots of fragments of movies, every day, but don’t necessarily get all the way through. DinoShark was able to keep me in my seat. Let me be clear: it is not a classic, and it suffered … Read more

I am a huge fan of the subversive and often disturbing “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”. They are funny, and they always put the situation in situation-comedy, placing themselves on par with South Park for their ability to combine bizarre irreverence with social commentary while stitching together a cohesive and engaging plot that is rife … Read more