http://www.sprocketholed.com/ Sprocket Holed en Thu, 03 Mar 2011 07:47:00 GMT Thu, 03 Mar 2011 07:47:00 GMT info@sprocketholed.com info@sprocketholed.com http://www.sprocketholed.com/the-book-was-better-any-book/ I felt bad posting stuff I'd written about movies I'd seen that could be had for free on the quartertothree movie podcast delivered orally, so in the interest of delivering... http://www.sprocketholed.com/the-book-was-better-any-book/#comments http://www.sprocketholed.com/the-book-was-better-any-book/ Thu, 03 Mar 2011 07:47:00 GMT http://www.sprocketholed.com/stuff-i-wrote-about-stuff-i-saw-after-smoking-stuff/ What do The Tourist, Tron Legacy, and True Grit all have in common besides letter T's and in some cases Jeff Bridges or gondolas? Nothing really. To wit, my "notes... http://www.sprocketholed.com/stuff-i-wrote-about-stuff-i-saw-after-smoking-stuff/#comments http://www.sprocketholed.com/stuff-i-wrote-about-stuff-i-saw-after-smoking-stuff/ Sun, 02 Jan 2011 07:30:00 GMT http://www.sprocketholed.com/the-social-network-review/ Michael Cera plays this Harvard nerd named Mark Eisenberg, who somehow scored a superhot girlfriend named Rooney Mara, but she keeps adding "s's" to words so they split up and... http://www.sprocketholed.com/the-social-network-review/#comments http://www.sprocketholed.com/the-social-network-review/ Tue, 02 Nov 2010 05:29:00 GMT http://www.sprocketholed.com/piranha-3d-review/ I've seen a pant-load of other movies lately, but since I'm about to see two more tomorrow and hate to waste anyone's time (that's not what blogging's about), I figured... http://www.sprocketholed.com/piranha-3d-review/#comments http://www.sprocketholed.com/piranha-3d-review/ Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:54:00 GMT http://www.sprocketholed.com/blincoln-blogs-bout-beature-bilms/ Tracking analysts (which as I understand it are soulless marketing wonks who predict how much money a movie will make in its opening weekend but, much like other astrologists, never... http://www.sprocketholed.com/blincoln-blogs-bout-beature-bilms/#comments http://www.sprocketholed.com/blincoln-blogs-bout-beature-bilms/ Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:30:00 GMT http://www.sprocketholed.com/in-russia-movies-boo-audiences/ It's that magical time of the year again, by which for once I don't just mean an eternity and change since I last updated this space, but also the dawn... http://www.sprocketholed.com/in-russia-movies-boo-audiences/#comments http://www.sprocketholed.com/in-russia-movies-boo-audiences/ Tue, 11 May 2010 09:46:00 GMT http://www.sprocketholed.com/unpodcastable-contortionism/ Don't worry, I saw more movies and still have this blog, which have no fear I fully intend to continue updating until I'm no longer physically able to insist I'm... http://www.sprocketholed.com/unpodcastable-contortionism/#comments http://www.sprocketholed.com/unpodcastable-contortionism/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:48:00 GMT 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