Ken Smithart (Greysmith) has been a movie critic for years…only recently has he actually found an audience. Previously his only audience was people he cornered after the movie (fortunately these were usually the people he came with.) He has a tendency to be more forgiving of movies if they “hit where they aim” as opposed to grading everything as if it were up for an award at Sundance. If it’s a cheesy, turn-off-your-brain-when-you-turn-off-your-cell-phone, popcorn movie, I don’t hold it to an unrealistic standard. One pet peeve is when the F/X folks don’t do their research and break the laws of physics (I’ll elaborate on that with an article later.) Ken is gearing up to begin his doctoral work in History beginning this fall in Texas.

I’ll admit it.  I was not particularly excited about seeing Avatar.  I even got to see an advance look at multiple scenes at ComicCon with James Cameron (and 8000 of our closest friends) but I simply wasn’t all that blown away.  Don’t get me wrong, I wanted to see it, I just wasn’t all that [...]

Remember when you got that guitar (or keyboard or whatever) on Christmas when you were a kid?  It was perfectly ok for you to spend a few days experimenting with all of the noises you could make with your new toy…no matter how cacophonous the result. After a while though, people want to hear those [...]

OK, I guess I get it.  Anytime somebody used to have a stroke when some director plowed into a treasured comic book or screen universe with an astonishing level of ignorance in regards to its mythos, I would dismiss their histrionics with an eyeroll and a shrug of the shoulder.  I mean, the director is [...]

So this is late but better late than never right? Enjoy my thoughts on the panel.
As I mentioned in my previous article about the Chuck panel, the line was so long and I was so far back in it that I missed the first 20 minutes, which means that I missed the show-stopping performance by [...]

I sure hope the suits at NBC will take notice of the Beatles-esque treatment the folks from Chuck received Saturday at Comic-Con. Just the line to get into the Chuck panel was insane: thousands of people filling a large hallway then moving outside wrapping around a landing before winding down the stairs to the lower [...]

So, I just got back from preview night at Comic-Con and it was quite the experience to say the least.  As hard as I tried to imagine 150,000 people in one building, I was completely unable to wrap my brain around it.  I can honestly say after witnessing it first hand that that is still [...]

Secretariat - the Motion Picture that needs to be made
Most of what you know about horseracing you probably learned from the movie Seabiscuit, but check out these videos about the greatest thoroughbred to ever live and tell me a great screen writer couldn’t do wonders with this story:
Secretariat was coming into the 1973 racing season [...]

Save Chuck…and Sarah
Once again the fate of many of our favorite shows is in the hands of the Big Four networks.  I only wish that I could say that their track record instills me with confidence: showing a propensity to look past the numbers and see the potential of a show, discerning talent where no [...]

An Open Letter to Disney Executives:
Calling Prince Caspian the most boring book of the Chronicles of Narnia series is like referring to the slowest rocket or the smallest NFL lineman: maybe not quite to the standard set by C.S. Lewis in the other books, but still an exhilarating ride.  I wish I could say the [...]

Nolan gets it right
I actually saw it at a 10:00 pm showing on the Monday night after it opened, and the theater was not only sold out, but people were buying tickets to other movies and trying to sneak in. Seemed my hunch had been correct. After Indiana Jones and the [...]