Up In The Air - Agoraphobically Great

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Stuff I've Been Reading...

In a change of pace from my overly syllabic reviews and rants let me bend your ear to books I've been reading or at least trying to read between all the game playing, website building and movie watching. These past couple of months have bore the fruit of quite the interesting couple of books and dvds. Some of the literature are education-oriented and books most of you have probably read in the sixth grade, but others really surprised me given the medium of being graphic novels.

After The Jump [Awesome Reads, Watches and Team Coco's most expensive sketch is certainly not in this posting]

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Precious - Not As Depressing As I Thought It Would Be

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Daybreakers - Vampire Noir Almost Worth Recommending

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Destined For Fail - Tekken: The Movie

Are words really necessary? You know its going to be terrible, right? I mean there is no way that, oh god he put on the Iron Fists. This movie based off of a game based off of several people from some of which were in movies is destined to win. Although it is odd to see Raven played by someone other than Wesley Snipes. Now we have reached a new level of meta. We have a movie based off of a game with characters based off of people in different movies and history, Where do I sign up?

Avatar: So Big, So Beautiful, So ... Cliche

Well its here, James Cameron's Avatar has landed and I was one of many that was excited. Then I seen the trailer, and was immediately turned off. Then I seen the technological advancements necessary to make one frame of this movie possible and was 'semi-on board' for Cameron's two hour and 40 minute opus. So taking in my thoughts as well as the idiotic vacuum that is the internet, let us discuss what Avatar accomplished and what the movie failed miserably at executing. Here's two for starters: Effective emotive computer generated scenes requiring no dialog between characters, yes. One too many, Braveheart bad-ass speech-ery moments, also yes.

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Fantastic Mr. Fox Is An Adorable Bore

How can anyone say anything negative about Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox? The movie has such a powerful shield of 'adorable-ness' speaking critically could be the equivalent to walking inside a lions den with Wes Anderson fans after saying The Life Aquatic sucked. No one would dare comment on the length of this seemingly endless stop-motion epic. The familiar "Anderson plot" is haphazardly translated from the classic Roald Dahl book into a semi-cohesive story. Coming from someone who may not fit into the demographic for Fantastic Mr. Fox, the movie isn't terrible. Fantastic Mr. Fox is good, but the disclaimer that should follow would be, "if you are a Wes Anderson fan." Sorry, Anderson-followers, but if anything good can be said about this long slog of a movie is that it is easily recommendable to you people and children who just don't know any better.

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New Moon: The Best Shirtless Teenage Angst

Although I have seen both of the 'Twilight movies' this is the first movie I have seen in the theater. By the time you read this, you will realize that New Moon has had one of the best opening weekends in movie history. Eclipsed by the highly praised Dark Knight and the forgettable, Spiderman 3. What New Moon has over the aforementioned blockbusters is a fan base so truly dedicated to this series, that they are willing to tolerate some of the worst acting and character chemistry seen since Shia LeBeouf and Megan Fox. New Moon has everything in a movie a logical thinking person should hate. The story is tedious, the world has all the trappings of a trashy novel aimed at teens and abandoned housewives. The stars could be replaced by shirt-less mannequins. And the movie is kind of offensive to Native Americans. Thank you New Moon, I will remember the laughs forever.

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Chris Rock's "Good Hair"

There is a much classier way to start a review of Chris Rock's comedic documentary, Good Hair. However, I will cut straight to the point [no pun intended]. If you want to know how black men and women's hair 'do that thing' it does. Or if you've ever asked your African-American co-workers, "So what do you put in your hair for it to do that?" Chris Rock answers the multi-billion dollar question in Good Hair.

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"Dynomite, Dynomite!" A Review Of Black Dynamite

Black Dynamite is currently playing in select theaters. If you are one of the  fortunate few who can watch this masterpiece in your city I support this decision and I implore you to bring friends as well as family. Sure Black Dynamite carries an R-rating. There is a message for all underneath the homage and parody of Blaxploitation cinema. The message is simple, "This is for you, if you did not get it, then it was never for you."

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