After a strong start, we haven’t kept up a torrid pace to knocking movies off the AFI 100 list. But we did manage to take two off. It’s a Wonderful Life (1942): I could not believe it when the wife told me she hadn’t seen this movie from start to finish. We’ve probably watched A […]
Not long after my bowling outing with friends, I had a nagging feeling that out there, somewhere, was a documentary about this sport. And because of my psychotic love for documentaries about odd things (Darkon, Bingo, Trekkies), I found one that came out not too long ago called The League of Ordinary Gentlemen. This is […]
I’ll apologize right off for the rambling/incoherent nature of this post. It’s going to serve double-duty. Because in the span of a week I got to educate myself on the war in Afghanistan in two ways, both profound in their own right. It started with reading Sebastian Junger’s new book, War. Those who know my […]
I remember when watching the Super Bowl ads used to be one of the highlights of the night. Companies pay millions for the airtime because of all the eyes that will see them. About three years or so ago the ads started sucking. Last year, they were not great at all. Last night, they were […]
The Campbell holiday tradition continues, this time with the Clooney flick, Up in the Air. Like most movie-going folk, I am a Clooney fan. He’s fantastic when being in serious films like “Good Night and Good Luck” or when hamming it up and being a good sport like in “Oceans Eleven.” This movie has a […]
A Campbell family Christmas tradition is to go check out movies. It started many moons ago and continues to this day, and it’s always fun to talk to my mom and plot which movies we shall conquer during my stint back in Louisville. First up, Sherlock Holmes with the always-cool Robert Downey, Jr. There was […]
This is another of the really, really few fiction authors that I will spend my time on. The first book of his I read was Degree of Guilt. And honestly, it wasn’t like it came recommended or anything. Nope … back in the day, I was needing a book for a flight, and the cover […]
Say what you want about the legalization of pot and whatnot, but I have to tell ya, meth right nows seems to be the worst thing man ever created, maybe next to nuclear bombs and Glen Beck. Some dumbass way back in the day thought this drug could have a purpose, and instead it has […]
It’s rare to find me not liking a Tarantino film. I just like his style, and the hyper-violence and witty reparté he writes into his movies is timely yet possesses so many winks and nods to other movies and directors that it’s hard to keep up sometimes but enjoyable nonetheless. For Inglorious Basterds, what really […]
I have no doubts that Sandler, Rogen, Mann, Apatow and the rest of cast are indeed funny people in real life. But holy crap they are not that funny at all in this movie. Sorry, but this movie should have been called Useless People. Rogen is good as his character, a fledgling comic trying to […]