Lemon Face/Lion Face: Jet Li

Did your house have a preferred martial arts actor? Were you a Jackie Chan household, or was it Chuck Norris or bust? Somewhere around 2000, my family stumbled upon Jet Li's foray in…

Letterboxd Review: Everything or Nothing (2012)

Among the several things that I planned out for 2017, including this blog site and the return of the Media Sandwich podcast, I made it my mission to watch all of the James Bond films so…

Casual Friday: Deep Space Battle VR

Virtual Reality is a cheap gimmick. In the gaming world, VR isn't even the equivalent of 3D viewing in a cinema...it's more like Smell-o-Vision. But, at the risk of sounding exac…

Treated and Released: Peter Pan (Dec. 25, 2003)

The Peter Pan story has a very colored history of feature adaptations. Disney's animated version in the 1950s has done quite a bit to keep the property alive, and I'm betting St…

Letterboxd Review: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)

Detective stories these days tend to settle in one of two very distinct camps: the ones where the crime and the suspects and the modus operandi take center stage, and the more hardboiled…

Letterboxd Review: Pottersville (2017)

I'm not really into Christmas movies that revolve around a community, or that include a hefty amount of schmaltz regarding the spirit of giving, etc. It all always seemed so cynical…

Casual Friday - Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes

Star Wars has never really felt proper in a mobile game. This probably has something to do with how grinding and resource gathering lacks the urgency that the Star Wars brand demands. Ju…

Lemon Face/Lion Face: Michael J. Fox

If you start a sentence with "acting is..." you had better be prepared to sift through the first dozen trite, highly subjective explanations that come out. Acting is, really,…

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