Short reviews of pretty much whatever. Finally, you can discover if Frosted Flakes Gold has more social worth than Illmatic or Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare.
If you haven’t already seen The Cabin in the Woods, go see
it now. I won’t tell you anything about the movie’s plot and you should
probably avoid spoilers like the plague. I will tell you that it’s one of the
smartest original horror movies I’ve seen in years. If you’ve been a horror
movie fan for a while, you owe it to yourself to see this movie. Stop reading
this hype and go watch The Cabin in the Woods.
Sorry to post two X-Men comic reviews so close, but I breezed through this storyline in like a day. As I mentioned below, there have only been a couple of X-Men storylines I've loved, and Joss Whedon and John Cassaday's Astonishing X-Men run is one of them. Whedon is terrific at small character moments and dialogue (and also big action scenes and twists), and Cassaday can draw some real purty pictures. Now that they are done and all four storylines are collected in trade I recommend picking it up, because it won't be six goddamn months between issues, thank you John Cassaday. This first collection involves the team dealing with the aftermath of Grant Morrison's run (which is something else I love - this comic actually treats Morrison's run as though it happened, while the rest of Marvel just retconned it out), and also touches on the idea of a "cure" for mutants which is discovered by some scientist. There's a lot of political discussion regarding whether mutants would be forced to take the cure etc, but also there's a lot of punching and explosions and one fastball special.
I just finished watching this tv show for the first time (despite seeing the movie in the theaters when it was released) and I have to say it's pretty great. It's no original Star Trek, but it was still a lot of fun to watch. Based on this show and Whedon's comics, I might even be willing to give Buffy a shot. For those of you who don't know, this is basically Han Solo the tv series set in the outer space wild west. Too bad it only lasted 17 episodes or whatever, because there was a lot more they could have done that would have been cool.
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