So my plan last week was to fire up the way-back machine and do my thing with Peter Travers’ zero-star review of Bad Boys II, arguably the second greatest Henry Rollins movie of all time. I ran into a slight hitch when I realized that, for a movie he considers to be in the category [...]
Well, I promised you two editions as atonement (punishment?) for my laziness, so here you go. I started this one after I finished Milk yesterday, but I only finished it today. Sorry. Believe it or not, I’ve actually seen Watchmen already, so we’ll see if that has any influence on how hard I rip into [...]
Apologies to my tens of fans who have been left with next to nothing to read for the past week or two. I’ve hit a bad run of Writer’s Block and have been unfairly ignoring the website for a while. But I’ll make it up to y’all with a daily double of IHPT fun. First [...]
Remember when I said that the magazine industry was going to be more secure than the newspaper industry? I’ve come across some shocking information that flies in the face of that assertion. I spent the better part of the weekend doing some extensive research, and my new conclusion is that there is no future for [...]
Apparently there haven’t been too many big releases lately, so I’m going back a little ways to bring you this week’s installment of “I Hate Peter Travers.” For once, I’m also going to do a movie that not only did I see, but also enjoyed. Tropic Thunder was actually one of my favorite movies of [...]
Yeah, I read the Atlantic. It’s like the New Yorker without as much of the air of superiority. Still pretentious, but bearably so. It’s one of the few “intellectual” magazines that I can stand to read on a semi-regular basis. But before I start talking about this article, I just want to say a little [...]
It’s time for another installment of “I Hate Peter Travers.” After going through The Wrestler last week. I kind of wanted to do a movie that I’d actually seen for a change. Unfortunately, I don’t get out to the movies that often, so no luck there. However, given that Peter Travers has done me the [...]
I hinted at my dislike for both Peter Travers and the concept of reviews in previous posts, but I want to expand on the former, and maybe clarify the latter. (First of all, I want to say that I don’t really hate Peter Travers the man. He’s probably an okay guy in person, and I’m [...]
I’d planned on writing about this column by Carlos Frias from the Palm Beach Post at some point this week, but I think Deadspin’s Dashiell Bennett kind of hit it on the head with this piece. That said, I have some more fan-oriented thoughts to share. My parents met at the University of Florida. They [...]
I’m usually pretty mixed in my opinion of Rolling Stone. I’m not a fan of music magazines in general, so that’s a strike against it right off the bat, but there are usually enough good features or interesting interviews to get me to read it on a semi-regular basis. My favorite thing they’ve got going [...]