I used to think Thomas Jane was a bad actor. Then I saw The Mist and learned otherwise: he’s excellent. (Also, he must be James Purefoy’s long-lost twin brother.) Unfortunately, The Punisher is anything but excellent. It has some of the right ideas, and a couple of scenes (especially the one of the Punisher being [...]

Some movies are so bad, they’re hilarious. Some movie are bad and just blah. This falls somewhere inbetween. The plot, while cool on a very basic conceptual level (post-apocalyptic world full of dragons) is so badly thought through that it makes your head hurt. I mean, the whole movie is based on the idea that [...]

When Sahara is an adventure movie, it’s fun. The actors are all good, the landscapes are great, there’s some nice action scenes, and the writing isn’t half bad. When it tries to do African politics, and tries to appear critical of the United States (for NOT intervening in another country’s politics), it’s quite silly. All [...]

Verena and I have been re-watching Battlestar Galactica. Well, it’s re-watching in my case; Verena hasn’t seen it before. Now, as you may know, I am prone to complaining about BSG, my main complaints being its militarism, its confusion of personal issues and responsibilities with politics, its lack of humour, and its attempt to create [...]