I sat at the bar. It was a long wood bar, and I always enjoyed drinking there. I lit a smoke, and enjoyed the Captain Morgan’s. It was warm in the bar. I took off my jacket and hung it on a hook below the bar. I glanced at the [...]
When the life of Jean-Claude Van Damme collides with the reality of a hold-up in Brussels, Belgium, suddenly the huge movie star turns into an ordinary guy, filled with fears, contradictions and hopes. How can he be up to the legend he has built? What can a film hero do when the gun pointed to his temple isn’t charged with blanks? JCVD finds himself at the turning point of his “hero” life.
7. Pixies, “Cactus”
Though Black Francis doesn’t let loose his usual yowling scream in “Cactus”—a song about a prisoner’s wish that his probably deceased girl send him something with her scent on it—there are still plenty of desperate emotions on display. “A letter in your writing doesn’t mean you’re not dead,” the inmate reasons, so he [...]
I don’t make films.
But, if I did they would have a Samuria.
Now you’ll sing a song of liberty for blacks and paks and jocks
And they’ll take you from this dump you’re in and stick you in a box
Then they’ll take you to cloughprior and shove you in the ground
But you’ll stick your head back out and shout we’ll have another round
At the graveside of Cúchulainn we’ll [...]
Pittsburgh looked pretty good in their first pre-season game against Philadelphia. The Eagles played without Westbrook though. These two teams meet again in week 3 of the regular season so neither team showed much of their playbooks. Santonio Holmes and Ben Roethlisberger hooked up for the Steelers touchdown on a nineteen yard [...]
We went to the X-Files 2: I Want to Believe today. I liked how Duchovny and Anderson were able to drop right back into their roles. I wished Carter had spent more time with the villains of the piece. The villains needed to scare the audience more. These men were doing horrific things for shaky reasons. I [...]
These are the movies I will part dollars with to see this summer. I love and hate going to the movies. I hate that I can’t have a smoke in the theatre. I hate the prices. I love the big screen. My girl loves the popcorn.