http://www.sprocketholed.com/ Sprocket Holed en Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:13:00 GMT Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:13:00 GMT info@sprocketholed.com info@sprocketholed.com http://www.sprocketholed.com/ive-jacked-into-worse/ Avatar is amazing to look at but not much to listen to. The visuals have a vibrant yet languid, almost narcotizing lushness, but it's hard to believe sometimes that this... http://www.sprocketholed.com/ive-jacked-into-worse/#comments http://www.sprocketholed.com/ive-jacked-into-worse/ Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:13:00 GMT http://www.sprocketholed.com/now-to-podcast-about-this-blog-quid-pro-quo/2/ I have a new excuse for not updating this beloved (by me, anyway) blog in a pushmi-pullyu's age in addition to my general trademark terribleness: I've somehow been rousted into... http://www.sprocketholed.com/now-to-podcast-about-this-blog-quid-pro-quo/2/#comments http://www.sprocketholed.com/now-to-podcast-about-this-blog-quid-pro-quo/2/ Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:01:00 GMT http://www.sprocketholed.com/transforminators-go-home/ God, I am one terrible blogger. Maybe it has something to do with blogging not really being considered a deadline (or is it more like having a 24/7 deadline?). I'm... http://www.sprocketholed.com/transforminators-go-home/#comments http://www.sprocketholed.com/transforminators-go-home/ Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:17:00 GMT http://www.sprocketholed.com/i-had-a-premonition-youd-read-this/ I know, I know...I really should be writing my Inglourious Basterds review, not least because A) I saw it first and 2) it's actually worth writing about. But I'm afraid... http://www.sprocketholed.com/i-had-a-premonition-youd-read-this/#comments http://www.sprocketholed.com/i-had-a-premonition-youd-read-this/ Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:25:00 GMT http://www.sprocketholed.com/maybe-theyll-trade-us-cool-guns-for-our-banking-system/ I liked District 9 but didn't love it, which seems to place me in an obviously insane minority of one. (Except for Armond White, whose vocabulary makes me feel quite... http://www.sprocketholed.com/maybe-theyll-trade-us-cool-guns-for-our-banking-system/#comments http://www.sprocketholed.com/maybe-theyll-trade-us-cool-guns-for-our-banking-system/ Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:52:00 GMT http://www.sprocketholed.com/pwno/ Bruno is a curiously disjointed but thoughtful documentary about a gay male Austrian fashion diva named Bruno I think I've seen on TV before but with different hair. The "u... http://www.sprocketholed.com/pwno/#comments http://www.sprocketholed.com/pwno/ Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:19:00 GMT http://www.sprocketholed.com/be-sure-to-step-on-the-hanky-once-youve-ripped-it/ Drag Me To Hell, Sam Raimi's long-awaited return to wacky horror after 22 years that felt like 63, is an atmospheric, laidback, amusing pastiche of Thinner meets The Ring by... http://www.sprocketholed.com/be-sure-to-step-on-the-hanky-once-youve-ripped-it/#comments http://www.sprocketholed.com/be-sure-to-step-on-the-hanky-once-youve-ripped-it/ Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:46:00 GMT http://www.sprocketholed.com/see-it-wearing-your-oj-juror-uniform/ I confess that I've never been much of a Trekkie. You read enough Iain Banks or Olaf Stapledon or even Vernor Vinge, and by comparison Trek's constant space-time anomalies (how... http://www.sprocketholed.com/see-it-wearing-your-oj-juror-uniform/#comments http://www.sprocketholed.com/see-it-wearing-your-oj-juror-uniform/ Sat, 30 May 2009 06:19:00 GMT http://www.sprocketholed.com/must-see-viewing-for-all-med-students-and-electricians/ The first half of the middle chapter of what will undoubtedly become the Crank tetralogy (Chev Chelios' story now feels exactly half complete) is frisky and charmingly retarded, if not... http://www.sprocketholed.com/must-see-viewing-for-all-med-students-and-electricians/#comments http://www.sprocketholed.com/must-see-viewing-for-all-med-students-and-electricians/ Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:06:00 GMT http://www.sprocketholed.com/why-cant-he-just-make-her-blue-too/ (Disclaimer: Mild spoilers ensue, including the entire ending.) I say this with genuine admiration: Zack Snyder's Watchmen, his free-ride movie after 300, is the most audience-unfriendly movie since Jack Frost... http://www.sprocketholed.com/why-cant-he-just-make-her-blue-too/#comments http://www.sprocketholed.com/why-cant-he-just-make-her-blue-too/ Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:14:00 GMT http://www.sprocketholed.com/make-a-sequel-with-tomei-and-mud/ Diner was painful... " wrap="0" title="Bang the head slowly" margin="5"] In some ways, "The Wrestler" is Darren Aronofsky's weirdest movie yet. Bleak and gritty, shot in drab, chilly, sweaty New... http://www.sprocketholed.com/make-a-sequel-with-tomei-and-mud/#comments http://www.sprocketholed.com/make-a-sequel-with-tomei-and-mud/ Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:51:00 GMT http://www.sprocketholed.com/and-the-losers-are/ A sea of human excrement indeed. Let me rephrase that: I haven't seen this many wealthy people stroking each other since my last gay urologists' convention. At least all those... http://www.sprocketholed.com/and-the-losers-are/#comments http://www.sprocketholed.com/and-the-losers-are/ Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:49:00 GMT http://www.sprocketholed.com/its-like-exit-to-eden-set-in-jersey/ Kevin Smith movies that don't take place in the Kevin Smith oeuvre are officially more watchable. Here Smith gets sappy and Apatow (i.e., Sapatow), inordinately supported by the best poo... http://www.sprocketholed.com/its-like-exit-to-eden-set-in-jersey/#comments http://www.sprocketholed.com/its-like-exit-to-eden-set-in-jersey/ Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:46:00 GMT http://www.sprocketholed.com/recycle-or-lose-your-trucks-and-stadiums/ A drearily Matrix-green remake of the slightly overrated 1951 film of the same name, The Day The Earth Stood Still '08 is yet another entry in Hollywood's science-less apocalypse movies... http://www.sprocketholed.com/recycle-or-lose-your-trucks-and-stadiums/#comments http://www.sprocketholed.com/recycle-or-lose-your-trucks-and-stadiums/ Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:17:00 GMT http://www.sprocketholed.com/the-things-the-play/ Synecdoche, New York is everything you'd expect from Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut, an ambitious, occasionally hilarious but mostly bleak, nihilistic dissection of life, failure, growing old, and death, perversely disguised... http://www.sprocketholed.com/the-things-the-play/#comments http://www.sprocketholed.com/the-things-the-play/ Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:11:00 GMT