Review: The Dark Knight Rises It's difficult to know what to say about the tragic loss of life in Colorado at this film's openi...

A Brave Addition to a Fine Summer of Cinema While everybody else is seeing The Amazing Spiderman or getting fireworks ready, I finally ...

A Review of Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter You can pretty much count on movie posters being misleading when it comes to plot these days...

Or better yet, Charlize Theron in a slinky evil queen gown.  Rawr. What do you do in a world dangerously lacking in meaning because yo...

I have been ridiculously busy since my move: setting up my apartment, my office, and my classroom -- and then summer school started up ...

Finals week is hitting at the same time as preparation for my move and for teaching summer school.  Did I mention that I also have an out-of...

This weekend, I took Mrs. Obscure to see The Raven .  I was more entertained than she, who did not like the ending.  Since this is a piec...

I know it's Sunday off from A-Z, but I just got back from taking the wife to see Mirror, Mirror .  Not exactly opening week, I know, bu...

It's my impression that the term MacGuffin is going through a period of increasingly inaccurate usage to mean: the object of the quest o...

I entered the cinema with hope, in spite of the fact that I had been fearful for weeks.  I discovered John Carter of Mars as an eighteen-ye...

Ben Kingsley as the Clockwork Gnome? I'm probably behind everyone else, but I finally saw Hugo today (for IMDb, see here ). It deserve...

James Watkins' The Woman in Black opened last weekend, coming in second in terms of sales, but the reviews do not seem to me as good a...

Many of you have probably been listening to The Hobbit Trailer version of "Far over the Misty Mountains cold."  I like it, but i...

I saw Immortals last night with my stepson and my opposite-taste-continuum wife, and we all liked Immortals, so that bodes well for its rec...

  Well, I didn't finish the October reading schedule I set for myself.  I made it through book three before the month ended, due to gen...

Tonight, I took my wife on a movie date (yay!).  She agreed to go see the new The Thing , a prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 classic o...

Here's a cool graphic with some ideas for getting in that Halloween mood.  I found it thanks to Sir Timothy of Kent over at I'd Rath...

There's been a lot of talk online lately about the look of the dwarves in Peter Jackson's up-coming adaptation of The Hobbit .  It ...

I'm still in the afterglow of the post-Harry Potter era -- or at least, the passing of the Golden Age of Potter (1997-2011), perhaps s...

  I ended an era last night, as many did.  For me, the Age of Potter began when my daughter was in the 6th grade and we read the first (the...