http://www.reelchange.com/blog Only Good for Snakes and Funerals Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:18:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The ReelChange Oscar Drinking Game is the gold standard in Academy Award telecast-based alchohol delivery systems. Having been field tested for years on subjects of varied imbibing prowess, a big thanks goes to our boys in R&D for perfecting this, the finest in all your awards show inebriation needs. Instead of ... http://www.reelchange.com/blog/?p=13   I was gonna see The Simpsons Movie, but I'm really into this cup and ball now. http://www.reelchange.com/blog/?p=12 Summer movie season is finally in full swing! (Gene Shalit, eat your heart out.) I've been out of review writing for a while and it's not really my bag, but this year's summer movie blog will be more of the "Notes on ..." format I originally pictured. It's just a ... http://www.reelchange.com/blog/?p=11 It's hard to write up a picture like Snakes on a Plane this late in the game, after it has had more ink spilled on it than almost anything else of the summer, but I've got a thing or two to say on ... http://www.reelchange.com/blog/?p=10 Note: As with most items on ReelChange.com, there is a spoiler risk, and this is primarily intended for consumption after viewing the film in question. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, which follows the franchise naming conventions of the last couple of decades by adopting a colon early and eschewing ... http://www.reelchange.com/blog/?p=9 I’d like to start these overwhelmingly positive notes with a negative thought that only cursorily involves Superman Returns. If I read one more “There’s no more originality in Hollywood” ramble by some under-watched film journalist hack, I will make it my life’s work to get that “writer” fired and returned ... http://www.reelchange.com/blog/?p=7 Luc Besson is somehow becoming the new Roger Corman. Both men started their careers directing low budget genre pieces with smart original twists. Then each went on to higher profile genre pieces, which garnered more fans without losing much of their underground hipster cred, and now Besson, like Corman before ... http://www.reelchange.com/blog/?p=5 In the past I have taken back some bad things I said about John Moore after being subjected to Behind Enemy Lines after seeing his remake of Flight of the Phoenix and reading Armond White’s take on it, in which he nominates Moore “for Peckinpah's retired jersey.” While I didn’t ... http://www.reelchange.com/blog/?p=4 Perfunctory sequel. X-Men 3: The Last Stand, under the frat boy level supervision of Brett Ratner, does everything that fans feared would happen back when Bryan Singer started the franchise. It would be an Electra of a failure if it weren’t built on the at least competent foundation that the ... http://www.reelchange.com/blog/?p=3