I recently watched Captain America to bring myself up to speed in the world of superheroes and the path to The Avengers. If you’re not aware of who Captain America is, you should be. He’s the reason we won WWII. I’m not making this up, in the Marvel Universe Captain America swayed the tides of war in our favor and allowed us to beat not only the Nazis but also their cult-like subdivision of HYDRA. To … Continue reading →

I’m not a Thor fan. I haven’t read up on his mythology and I don’t follow his comic books. I’m just a guy who likes to watch a good superhero movie. I won’t be discussing actually accuracy to mythology or comic books or the way your mother told it to you when you were twenty. To begin with, I had a little trouble with the timeline of the gods. Thor’s dad, I believe is seen … Continue reading →

I was in the mood for a little bit of baseball today so I decided to throw in Bad News Bears. I haven’t seen this movie since I was a kid and I can only wonder why my parents let me watch it at a young age. The language is hardly the kind you’d want to impress on any youngster and there really isn’t a role model in the film. Morris Buttermaker (Walter Matthau) is … Continue reading →

Maybe I wrote too soon when I lamented in my post about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows – Part 1 when I expressed how I wish they would have included Dobby’s gravestone. I felt that the gravestone left me with such an emotional feeling, I truly felt the loss that Harry felt, that it would have been a powerful scene in the movie. I recently watched Part 2 and was happy to see the gravestone … Continue reading →

The whole world will know my joy when I see a movie remake of a book and am completely satisfied. Today, however, is not that day. I may be a little behind the times but I finally was able to sit down and watch Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 1. Let me be quite frank for those of you who have not seen it, it is not the book. It’s not bad by … Continue reading →