Three weekly columns focusing on the world of film http://www.matchflick.com/columns/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:15:02 -0500 Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!Here's something to be thankful for--the great people at A&E Home Entertainment are giving one of my readers the Monty Python's Flying Circus megaset. That's right—29... http://www.matchflick.com/column/2064 A throwback to the disaster-spectacle epics of Irwin Allen and Cecil B. De Mille, Roland Emmerich's 2012 gave movie-goers APOCALYPSE NOW last weekend. Sony Pictures felt the earth move and the ink... http://www.matchflick.com/column/2062 Over the past two weeks I've been getting a pantload of spam through the 'feedback' option on this column. So much so that I think it's time to piss on the Admirals and call in the boats. Be well.-... http://www.matchflick.com/column/2063 Unfortunately, I'm under the weather this week. Rather than attempt to write when I would probably fail miserably, I'm going to link to my favorite column--on British Humour.... http://www.matchflick.com/column/2061 A brief and rather lazy offering this week as I just returned from a vacation. I went down to Orlando with some of my family and the 10-plus hours car trip was not nearly as entertaining as the one... http://www.matchflick.com/column/2060 No, not the Hulk. I am referring to the subject of today's column, Savage Dragon. After seeing what Hollyweird has been able to do on the big screen with Hulk, Hell Boy, Mr. Hyde (of League of... http://www.matchflick.com/column/2059 I've written here before about my affinity for the horror genre. My two favorites from the last ten years are 28 DAYS LATER and SHAUN OF THE DEAD. The former dynamically resurrected the zombies... http://www.matchflick.com/column/2058 About a year ago the Commonwealth of Massachusetts was all a-thither because a couple of big time Hollywood God-botherers were going to build a huge movie studio in Plymouth. Everyone bent over... http://www.matchflick.com/column/2057 When you develop a story, you need an interesting set of characters that deliver snappy dialogue and move everything forward. These characters will live in your head, and some you will come to love,... http://www.matchflick.com/column/2056 I'm a curious white girl. I'm the housecat who comes to the kitchen to see what that crinkling sound is. I like learning about muchas cosas: cooking, the cultures of faraway lands, fractal geometry,... http://www.matchflick.com/column/2055