Imagine the pitch meeting for Get Hard: “What’s not funny about prison rape? Am I right?” “Or using ‘keister’ as a verb! Hey-oooo!”A raunchy ebony-and-ivory… Continue reading
That sound you’re hearing is no one talking about House of Cards Season 3. Or maybe it’s crickets with a bad Southern drawl. After two… Continue reading
The answer to the whole zombie conundrum came to me on the night of the midterms two weeks ago, like an arrow through the brain.… Continue reading
If you have an urge for pie and coffee, you may be thinking a) I always have an urge for pie and/or coffee (they’re delicious),… Continue reading
It seemed like a good idea last month, at least to me: Amazon buying comiXology. Launched in 2009, the privately backed, New York–based service was… Continue reading
This weekend’s Emerald City Comicon is sold out, so I’ll limit my remarks to the following readers: a) geeks who are already going; b) civilians… Continue reading
Things I’d rather watch than Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts play a bickering mother and daughter in August: Osage County: Darrell Issa presiding over a… Continue reading
Thor: The Dark World Opens Fri., Nov. 8 at Ark Lodge and
other theaters. Rated PG-13. 112 minutes. Even with its flaws, Thor: The Dark… Continue reading
I don’t worry about Google searches, but if the NSA profiles people by what they rent at Scarecrow Video, I’m on a few watch lists.On… Continue reading
In a summer of tentpole fantasy flicks that range from disappointing to polarizing, the no-pedigree Pacific Rim is the film generating the hardest nerd-mahogany. (It… Continue reading
"Kid-friendly" Seattle needs to toughen up its offspring."I like children," the great W.C. Fields once said. "If they're properly cooked."And he wasn't even talking about… Continue reading
