Quality Assessment: Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods”

Oh Neil.
I was really looking forward to this one: lots of accolades+Neil Gaiman+the endless possibilities of the plot’s mythology=gold, right?  Not even close.  And that’s a shame really, because the reviews alone were really exciting, alas, I have to keep telling myself that not every book is for me (or everyone for that matter) to get or like [...]

Incoming: Prince of Persia-The Sands of Time

National Treasure+Pirates of the Caribean+The Mummy+a pinch of Alexander=Prince of Persia.
Wow, you can REALLY tell when a movie is from Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer can you not?
Every part of the sets, locations, etc., look pristine even the “dirty” places, the trailer attacks us with so much relentless action that has 0% real violence or even danger [...]

Incoming: How to Train Your Dragon

I don’t really get all excited about Dreamworks animated movies. For every 10 movies they put out, I like probably 3 or 4, and though this one could go either way, I’m more inclined to give it a chance because it features…….. Dragons!!  Ha! And you know I can’t resist.

Quality Assessment: Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire Assistant

I’ve never read the books but if one were to take this movie at face value and take into consideration that the story is a mash-up of not one but THREE! of the novels then the only thing one would assume is that the series is well, trash. (Can’t possibly as bad as this movie [...]

Quality Assessment: Patrick Wolf’s “The Bachelor”

I know, I know, I’ve been taking my sweet ass time with this one, but here it is at last.
Let me begin with the at once surprising and obvious: Is Patrick Wolf incapable of producing albums that are anything but great piece of art?  Yes, that sounds a bit pretentious but how else to describe [...]

Quality Assessment: Where The Wild Things Are

I’m not going to discuss the movie at length because it is unnecessary really.  All you need to know is that it is faithful to the book as much as it is its own unique version.  It is magical, it is fun, it is amazing, it is simple yet grand and one of the very [...]

Quality Assessment: Pedro Paramo

Fellow blogger pseudoswashbuckler over  thwok! recommended Pedro Paramo to me after I asked his expertise on what to read, and I’m really glad he did (giving recommendations is something he’s not fond of) though I must say, it’s been a week since I finish reading it and I still don’t know what to make of it.

 
Pedro Paramo is [...]

Quality Assessment: 9

Though not as heavenly sent as Pixar or Hayao Miyazaki films, 9 does quite well at balancing the “appeal to kids but really for adults” line that so many animated films try to do and sometimes fail (I’m looking at you Dreamworks!)  Maybe it has to do with being produce by Tim Burton and Timur [...]

Quality Assessment: The Fall

The Fall is a 2006 film that traveled to different film festivals before being officially release last year.  It was directed by the same guy (Tarsem) that made The Cell with Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, and Vincent D’Onofrio.  This one doesn’t really have any known actors with the exception of Lee Pace from Pushing Daisies.

There’s a lot [...]