Essays, art, and comics of the unexpected
(Click to embiggen) Cohort Stephan Zielinski directed me to an io9 talkback that cited Scott Aaronson’s “When I Heard the Learn’d Poet”, a parody of Walt Whitman’s “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer,” which...
Alfred, that is a lot of silly things (Thanks is due to many co-hecklers in the production of this heckle.) Nolan’s Batman saga is like a coin. The first side features breathless cause-and-effect (Batman...
I’d have to be a total jerk to criticize Brave. It’s fleet, entertaining, funny and charming. It’s eye-shatteringly beautiful, exquisitely animated and perfectly performed. Its heart is in the right place. The slapstick is...
Disney’s John Carter brought me out of heckling retirement. Too many Tharks on the dance floor John Carter (not a princess, not of Mars) is a convoluted mess, but to my tastes a more...
How can a movie be both repetitive AND confusing? Kissing fun goodbye since 1999 One might suggest that M. Night Shyamalan is not experienced with action or heavy green-screen. I think Shyamalan had a...
Is the best non-Pixar comedy I’ve seen since Shawn of the Dead Shaun of the Dead. There. I said it. Go see it. (Not just cos it’s got a bunch of NCSA alum on...
I have seen it twice. I am full of knowledge. Also full of spoilers, so beware. Black is the new black We all know it is a great, great movie. We know it will...
Very good. Very very good. In fact, I don’t think I have anything to heckle, and you wouldn’t want spoiling anyway, and I just want to make fun of Batman Begins again. (In other...
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