Under the Peg
21 entries
- Saner Men Would Need Therapy
Take a bunch of actors, have them act as a bunch of actors, who are acting as soldiers in a fake war. Just for kicks, let's have them think they're filming a movie while they are being shot at by...
# At August 1, 2008 8:37 PM | Tags: Ben Stiller Brandon Jackson culture humor Jack Black Jay Baruchel movies Nick Nolte Robert Downey Jr. Steve Coogan Tom Cruise Viet Nam violence - The Black Night Always Triumphs
The most important human attribute is Hope. It is hope that keps us hanging on when everything seems lost, it is hope that kept us alive during the darkest nights, the driest summers, and the coldest winters. It is the...
# At July 27, 2008 1:30 AM | Tags: Aaron Eckhart Batman Christian Bale comic books movies review The Dark Knight - Iron, Jets, and Plasma
It's simple alchemy: Take space-age and beyond technology, mix with a man who was building advanced robots when he was sixteen, heat until a plot to take over the world can be scooped out, sprinkle in a healthy dose of...
# At May 10, 2008 8:18 PM | Tags: comic books Gwyneth Paltrow Iron Man movies review Robert Downey Jr. Terrence Howard - Jump In, It's Worth It
Blink and you're in London, sneeze and show up in France, pop out of any bar fight and continue your meal in a different continent, and never have to wait in line at the airport again. Between you and me,...
# At March 8, 2008 10:37 PM | Tags: Hayden Christiansen Jumper movies review Samuel L. Jackson science fiction violence - It Is That Time Of Year, After All
Valentine's day is breathing frosty puffs at the door, men. It's time to take the special lady in your lives to a romantic movie, something that will make her say "Aww that's so sweet," at least twice, and if you...
# At February 13, 2008 10:23 PM | Tags: Eva Longoria Parker fantasy Kali Rocha Lake Bell Lindsay Sloane movies Over My Dead Body Paul Rudd review romance - Odd Choice For Christmas
It's probably a pretty grim reflection on my mental state when one considers I was giggling like a school girl through most of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The movie is based on a Broadway musical by...
# At January 6, 2008 9:43 PM | Tags: Alan Rickman George Hearns Helena Bonham Carter Jayne Wisener Johnny Depp movies review Sweeney Todd Tim Burton - A Perfect Fairy Tale
The prince Charmings of the world have had Enchanted coming for a loooonnng time. The movie starts in the animated world. The narrator, (Julie Andrews) introduces us to the fairy tale world of Andalasia, which comes complete with impromptu musical...
# At December 16, 2007 6:19 PM | Tags: animation culture Enchanted fairy tales family humor movies reviews - Anyone Know Last Rites?
Since I still hear this song on the radio, I figure it is still fair game for reviews: Hey There Delilah by the Plain White T's (lyrics available here, and same melody but enjoyable lyrics available here), is pure unmitigated...
# At November 19, 2007 9:49 PM | Tags: guitar Hey There Delilah humor lyrics music Plain White Ts - I'm Not Going To Make A "Sweet" Joke
Even though Bee Movie is a family film (which means a healthy chunk of the theatre crowd will be young children) it's worth going to see as an adult. The characters are likable, the story is well thought out, and...
# At November 7, 2007 5:30 AM | Tags: Bee Movie culture Jerry Seinfeld movies review The Girl - Some Things Never Change
When Resident Evil Extinction starts, you may get the impression you've walked into the wrong theater. Don't panic! It's just the writer's subtle way of breaking you into the latest plot by the evil Umbrella Corporation. I don't want to...
# At September 22, 2007 8:47 PM | Tags: Madness Day Milla Jovovitch movies Resident Evil Resident Evil Apocalypse Resident Evil Extinction reviews - Big Guns, Hot Babes and Heavy Metal!
The movie starts with a man sitting at a bus stop. He's just your average bum by the look of things. He's munching on a carrot when an obviously pregnant woman stumbles onto the scene, screaming in terror and panting...
# At September 17, 2007 6:15 PM | Tags: Clive Owen MacGyver movies reviews Shoot 'Em Up The Punisher violence - Half An Ounce of Plastic Is Now Cool
At the age of twelve, Randy Daytona (Brett DelBuono) was the greatest Ping-Pong player in America. He made it all the way to the 1988 international finals where he would face the East German champion, Karl Wolschtagg (Thomas Lennon). With...
# At September 9, 2007 7:34 AM | Tags: Balls of Fury Brett DelBuono Christopher Walken comedy Dan Fogler Maggie Q movies ping pong reviews sports Thomas Lennon - This Isn't Revenge, This Isn't Punishment...
This is War, starring Jason Statham, and Jet Li. Jason Statham plays Agent Crawford, a tough as nails San Fransico FBI agent who loses his partner to a cold, malicious Yakuza assassin named Rogue (Jet Li). Rogue was trained to...
# At August 25, 2007 1:05 PM | Tags: Jason Statham Jet Li martial arts movies revenge violence War - And The Star Fell Up
Go see this movie! In a generic and very definitive sense, you should go see Stardust. You may experience a brief moment of panic when you see the previews full of "Chosen One" movies, in which the chosen ones complain...
# At August 13, 2007 12:03 AM | Tags: Charlie Cox fantasy movies review Stardust - Red Is The Color of Rust
My family recently bought a Wii. It was Maggie's idea. (I think it's because she's something of a Link fan. Part of the plan behind buying the Wii was that the three teenagers (Barb Gigamaster, Maggie, and myself) would each...
# At August 11, 2007 6:06 PM | Tags: Nintendo Red Steel review video games Wii - Never Saw This Coming
I should probably say at the outset that I'm not a big fan of the Simpsons. The characters that were always coming out on top were the characters I didn't really care about. With that in mind, I would never...
# At July 27, 2007 11:31 PM | Tags: culture family movies The Simpsons - Die Hard Fans Welcome!
The first thing I noticed when I saw the posters for the new Die Hard movie, was the rating. The first three movies were rated R, and the new film's PG-13 rating set off alarms in my head. As such,...
# At July 25, 2007 9:48 PM | Tags: Bruce Willis Die Hard Live Free or Die Hard movies - Ain't Technology Grand?
When we saw the posters for the Transformers movie, Bruce expressed his concern that the movie would be just like the live-action Thunderbirds flick. I'm happy to announce the writers did not copy the plot for Transformers out of one...
# At July 7, 2007 1:41 AM | Tags: collateral damage movies robots Thunderbirds Tranformers - A Simple, Shining Dish
Though the movie is billed as a child's film, and it does possess the necessary charm and simplicity to appeal to children, it also has a level of wit and depth that adults will appreciate. The film is rated G,...
# At July 3, 2007 7:05 PM | Tags: Brad Garrett cooking movies Patton Oswalt Ratatouille rats - 'Oy Mum, There's A Fuzzy Burning Angel Outside!
When it came out, the family went to go see Shaun Of The Dead. We all had a good time, so when we heard that the same people were doing a movie based on the thriller cop genre, we naturally...
# At April 27, 2007 11:59 PM | Tags: Hot Fuzz humor movies Nick Frost Simon Pegg - Al Gore Under the Peg
I recently went to see Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth," and despite a few obvious flaws, I'm willing to call this a positive experience. The movie did have some key problems. The most notable was that the people behind...
# At October 3, 2006 11:42 PM | Tags: Al Gore environmentalism Global Warming
