Orson Wells on Jimmy Stewart

Apropos of nothing, I stumbled across a video of a section of a Dean Martin Celebrity Roast over at Crooks and Liars, which caused me to head over to You Tube to find more. I’m old enough that I was able to see most of them on TV when they first came out. At any [...]

Ask A ScienceBlogger: Science Movies

This weeks Ask a ScienceBlogger question is: What movie do you think does something admirable (though not necessarily accurate) regarding science? Bonus points for answering whether the chosen movie is any good generally….

Phantom From Space: One From the Archives

At the moment I am quite busy procrastinating. I’m trying to finish up a post I have been working on and thinking about for awhile now, but keep finding excuses to put off working on it. Such as reposting this… Although it sounds pretty cheesy (the science aspects suck), this is actually a first rate [...]

X-Men: The Last Stand

I just saw X-Men: The Last Stand a little while ago. I’ll get to that in a minute. One of the things I also saw was a trailer for POTC II – looks really good. Davy Jones looks much better than the picture PZ has been wistfully posting… Back to X-Men. Some random thoughts. I [...]

Movie Review: Crimson Force

So, I was watching this kinf of aweful movie on the Sci Fi channel called Crimson Force. Ordinarily I wouldn’t blog about cheesy movies on Sci Fi but it had some anthropological elements that drove me straight up the wall. The movie proposes a novel solution to the origins of anatomically modern humans and the [...]

Pirate Movie Sunday

Since I can’t do too much to celebrate National Talk Like a Pirate tomorrow (other than talking like a pirate) I am doing a little celebrating today by watching a bunch of pirate movies. Here are the movies I’m hoping to get through: The Seahawk – not a bad Errol Flynn movie, though Captain Blood [...]

Sunday Godzilla Blogging

Usually when I go to rent movies I always check out the used videos for sale bin. Occasionally, I find some good stuff for cheap prices.Recently, I bought Godzilla vs Gigan This is one of the cheesier movies in the series. Godzilla actually talks (although I’ve seen worse). Basically, giant cockroaches are trying to take [...]

Why do I do It?

I was at the grocery store last night and was looking through a rack of discounted items. Stumbled across Shark Attack 3: Megalodon, which is not a sequel to Megalodon. Sucked used kitty litter but I’m a sucker for a shark movie. Maybe there is a twelve step program I can sign up for. Give [...]

Volcanoes of the Deep Sea: A Review

I didn’t really know what to expect when we got to the Science Center. The Parking was free – cool. When we got inside I noticed that there wern’t that many people there yet. But by the time the movie started the theater was almost full. So to be a good mix of young and [...]

Movie Review: Van Helsing

Although, I like Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale, I was disappointed in this movie. The plot was okay, but I really didn’t like the various werewolves, Frankenstein’s Monster and Mr. Hyde(which was the exact same as in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I don’t think the CGI blended in very well with the live actors. The [...]