The main characters really existed and really did most of this stuff in the early years of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. David Pakouz (played by Miles Teller) was a 20-something massage therapist barely scraping by in Miami Beach. … Continue reading
The folks at Corridor Digital parody the film John Wick using Nerf weapons: Link: https://youtu.be/9MrnAJsxL8c Here’s some behind-the-scenes stuff if you’re interested: Link: https://youtu.be/UGwphKjAhew by … Continue reading
As everybody says, this is really an Avengers movie, though Captain America is the protagonist, and like the previous Captain America film it touches intelligently on some serious subjects, including unintended civilian deaths and whether dangerously powerful superheroes should act … Continue reading
A few days after the 2016 election, Senator Bernie Sanders appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and made some thoughtful comments about goals for the Democrats and the future. At the time it wasn’t clear what Trump would … Continue reading
This is something like a mix of the X-Men and Harry Potter. Asa Butterfield plays a troubled kid who grew up hearing tall tales from this grandfather (Terence Stamp) about spending World War II in a Welsh orphanage whose residents … Continue reading
Updated 2017 March 28: Despite a number of last-second amendments added in a failed effort to attract support from the far-right House Freedom Caucus, opposition to the Trumpcare bill continued to grow and the vote was postponed Thursday and canceled … Continue reading
R.L. Stine is an author best known for the “Goosebumps” series of children’s horror novels originally published in the 1990s and popular for their scares, plot twists, and flashes of humor. Stine’s books have outsold Stephen King’s, at least if … Continue reading
The Boston Public Schools have embraced a bad map projection, specifically Gall-Peters. The so-called Peters projection is promoted as “more accurate,” but this is at best misleading. Even The Boston Globe, in most respects a pretty good newspaper, neglects to … Continue reading
In the latest drive-thru prank from Rahat, the evil puppet from the Saw movies goes to several fast food places in search of tacos, burgers, and chicken nuggets. As usual the reactions range from amusement to shock to both at … Continue reading
My friend Bryan Jones has said that Benedict Cumberbatch looks like he was drawn by Steve Ditko — the artist behind the original Doctor Strange comics — so he was natural choice for the role. Early in the film Dr … Continue reading