Hamlet 2 is a strange film. It’s not for everyone and probably will not play well to older and/or more conservative audience. The conservative ones it sends up. The older ones won’t get parts of the humor.
Figure the co-writers on this are Pam Brady whose writing credits include South Park and Team America, and Andrew Fleming whose very […]
Entries from July 2008
The Hamlet 2 (movie) Review
July 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Eclectica · Film and Television
The 5 People You Meet in Your Building’s Gym
July 28th, 2008 · No Comments
The so-called “modern” apartment building has all manners of perks our parents never saw, and with those perks can come a real freak show. If you live in a building with a gym on-site, odds are the gym rules are a little more lax than the local health club and there’s a whole new cast of […]
Tags: Humor
The X-Files: I Want to Believe (movie) Review
July 25th, 2008 · No Comments
The X-Files: I Want to Believe really is just a film length episode of the TV series. In fact, its so low key an episode, I’m stunned this is the story they decided to use for a feature film.
You can divide X-Files episodes into two kinds of stories: aliens and monsters. The monster stories can further be […]
Tags: Eclectica · Film and Television
An Omen That The Economy’s in the Tank
July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
It’s official. The economy is in the tank. I’ve now seen a sign that mean no other thing.
Tags: Humor
Summer of Our Discontent? Same ‘Ole, Same ‘Ole for the Chicago Bulls
July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Leave it to the Bulls to have a bizarre and contentious off-season. GM Paxson decides he wants to deal with his two prize restricted free agents, Luol Deng and Ben Gordon, before doing anything else. That’s fine and even prudent, but while one hears about free agent courting in other NBA cities, in Chicago all one hears […]
Tags: Sports
The Legal Beggars of Chicago
July 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment
If you live in the city, you’re familiar with beggars. Living in the city, I see my fair share of them, but as the summer wears on, the legal beggars are wearing me down.
No, I’m not talking about the Streetwise vendors (Streetwise being Chicago version of the newspaper homeless people sell), I’m talking about the political […]
Tags: Humor
The Dark Knight (movie) Review
July 18th, 2008 · No Comments
The Dark Knight lives up to the hype, and that’s a lot of hype for a show that had cordoned lines at 2:30 in the afternoon on a Friday.
Continuing where the previous film in the current series, Batman Begins, left off, Dark Knight finds the Batman continuing to put the squeeze on the Falcone crime […]
Tags: Comics · Eclectica · Film and Television
The Marcus Camby Trade/Gifting and a Preview of the New-Look Clippers Roster
July 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment
The Denver Nuggets were so inspired by the Memphis Grizzlies dumping Pao Gasol for salary relief, they decided to one up them and trade Marcus Camby not for a second round draft pick, but the right to swap second round picks in 2010. If they opt not to swap, the Clippers will have gotten Camby for […]
Tags: Sports
Marvel Comics Newsstand Sales and Subscription Numbers back through 1999
July 15th, 2008 · No Comments
Continuing the conversation from my Funnies Business column in Publisher’s Weekly Comics Week, newsstand sales and subscriptions are two categories that, while mainstays of “normal” magazine publishing, have gone by the wayside as comics have entered the direct market. Looking at the circulation audits from the BPA, we can track newsstand and subscription sales, for […]
Tags: Biz · Comics · Eclectica
The Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (movie) Review
July 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment
If the paying audience is anything like the crowd that showed up for the Hellboy 2: The Golden Army preview I caught, Universal/Dark Horse have a hit on their hands. Warned I should show up a little earlier than normal, I turned up about an hour before the screening and barely got in. Worse, I was stuck […]
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