Welcome to A Constant Visual Feast, new readers! If you’re here, I can only assume that you found me through the Freshly Pressed link I received from the wonderful editors of WordPress this very afternoon, so let me take a moment to thank you for stopping in and my review of Skyfall, for perusing my content, and for– … Continue reading »
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TV Review: Game of Thrones, 2.7 and 2.8: A Man Without Honor/The Prince of Winterfell
In this week’s recap of Game of Thrones: matters of honor, respectability, personal identity, and forward plot progression. Also, good, clean, healthy, romantic love. For once. Continue reading »
Hi-yo, Jack Sparrow! Away!: First Look at The Lone Ranger
If you haven’t already seen it courtesy of other, more Johnny-on-the-spot sources of Internet film journalism, then I’m happy to give you the first released glimpse of Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp in Disney’s 2013 release, Lone Ranger. From what I’m told, producer Jerry Bruckheimer Tweeted this image just today– which may not be surprising … Continue reading »
A Blog By Any Other Name…
Since I first started this blog in 2009, it’s undergone a number of geneses both superficial and substantive. For the most part these have been surface changes– those of you who have been here from the start likely can attest to the ridiculous number of face-lifts this site has enjoyed before recently, when I settled … Continue reading »
Groovers and Mobsters Presents: The Buddy Flick
Shaun of the Dead, 2004 “Take car. Go to Mum’s. Kill Phil, grab Liz, go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over. How’s that for a slice of fried gold?” Here’s to buddies, chums, best pals, amigos, companeros, and hetero lifemates, and what duo so … Continue reading »
On America and Bin Laden
A somber post begins with the humor of an Internet meme. Me in a nutshell. I’m not really one to editorialize, so I’ll skip detailing my personal reaction to Osama Bin Laden’s death and forgo analyzing what his departure from this world means for humanity, and I’ll spare you all my various opinions of and … Continue reading »
My Versatile Blogger Award
JL over at the Couch Potato Club has done me the honor of name-dropping me and subsequently hooking me up with my very own Versatile Blogger award. This isn’t some blog-breaking, game-changing prestige, which I frankly appreciate; rather, the Versatile Blogger award’s intent is to spread some link-love across the blogosphere and introduce our various … Continue reading »
The Japan Tragedy
I wanted to take a moment here to talk about Japan instead of films. Yes, this is a movie/entertainment blog, but the world has ways of reminding us that our hobbies and interests aren’t what matter the most. The disaster that hit Japan yesterday epitomizes the simultaneously heartless and amoral wake-up call to the very … Continue reading »
Beating the Heat: My Summer Hiatus
I’m going to make this short and sweet. My personal life has become incredibly busy of late. I don’t post on a very predictable or regular schedule anyways, and for the next couple of months this will be even more noticeable. That doesn’t mean no new updates period, but expect them at an even less … Continue reading »