 CC2K newcomer Niall Browne takes a look at the region 2 DVD of Marley and Me.
Before I begin this review in full, I must give a disclaimer: I’m not a dog person. It’s not that I don’t like them – it’s just that I don’t want one around my... Read more |
 For the first time in a very long time, I'm at a legitimate loss for words after I close the final pages of a comic book. Certainly, this could be from my brain being turned to complete slush after reading Superman Beyond #2 and Final Crisis #6 back... Read more |
 In this classic piece, CC2K's Jaime Kawamoto advises Daniel Radcliffe on how to pursue his post-Harry Potter career. Read more |
 In our Instant Expert column, CC2k Music Editor Jimmy Hitt gives you a crash course on a unique, up-and-coming or otherwise extraordinary artist. This week's rocker to get the Instant Expert treatment is 21-year-old wunderkind Zach Condon and Beirut. Read on, and wow all your friends at cocktail parties, laugh-ins, sleepovers... Read more |
 When it comes to serial television, though I watch a lot of it, I am not the easiest one to please. I treasure continuity more than most people, I want drama mixed with smart humor, I want characters with depth, I want surprising yet believable story twists and I want... Read more |
 Our collective opinion of Michael Jackson has changed overnight. Days ago, a joke about the accused pederast would draw laughs, but now they're inappropriate. Now we have to find a way to understand a life and a death that we hadn't planned on understanding just yet. Read more |
 “Ooooh, creepy,” my wife said upon learning of poor Heath Ledger’s untimely demise. “And now we’re going to see him in the new Batman movie. It’ll be just like The Crow.” One reason I love my wife is that she makes random observations like this, often... Read more |
 America may be in the middle of an economic recession at the moment, but what people may not realize is that television studios have been battling with finances for years. Several fabulous television shows have been given the ax after a single season or two due to skyrocketing budgets, a... Read more |
 After the release of the first Transformers movie, fellow CC2K Staff writer Lance Carmichael argued that it was Michael Bay's best film since The Rock, in large part because he managed to mix all of the requisite ingredients for a successful summer blockbuster in just the right proportions, those... Read more |
 It's all well and good to love a movie when you're a kid, but watch it again in adulthood at your own peril. If you're not careful, action turns to comedy - and comedy turns painful - right before your very eyes. For April Fools' Week, Tony Lazlo offered up... Read more |
 Jamie Babbitt is a truly one-of-a-kind director. Her films are unique in story and execution. Her film debut But I’m a Cheerleader was a cult film right out the gate for its story about a lesbian cheerleader sent to a “rehabilitation” camp. While Babbitt has not yet gotten the... Read more |
If you want to see Jack Black eat poop or Michael Cera pee on his own face, then Year One is the movie for you. That's probably the best thing I can say for it. It comes out of a cute idea. What if people with today's sensibilities, people...
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We live in a world of superlatives. Companies quantify their products to the point of lunacy in order to make it sound better (“It’s the number one animated family comedy in America!” “Ranked the top mid-size SUV under $30,000!” etc.), seemingly irrefutable statements of superiority can have several meanings...
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Notes from a Crank
Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Stones IMAX extravaganza, Shine A Light, opened last Friday, and I was lucky enough to be one of the 1000 or so people in LA crammed into the only two theaters in town playing the film. As expected, I enjoyed it .... Read more |
 The Transformers sequel is due out in a couple weeks. To get ready, why not take another look at the original? If I call Transformers Michael Bay’s best movie since The Rock —if not ever—is that damning him with faint praise? Or am I saying that he’s finally found... Read more |
 When was the last time you went into a movie completely ignorant of its content when it started, yet halfway through you thought “This may be the best movie I have ever seen”? Flourish was like that for me. And while the... Read more |
 At first glance, the 80s kitsch classic Xanadu certainly seems harmless. It opens with classic images of a frustrated artist – in this case, a graphic artist and draftsman, scribbling and crumpling up drawings of a mysterious woman. Surely, we say, this well-intentioned movie won’t go on to become one... Read more |
The goal of this article is NOT to distribute my personal opinions on my favorite television/film personifications of the iconic characters contained within the Superman universe, but rather to indicate who was the most representative of the true character. Yes, comic characters evolve, as one would expect, especially with...
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 In the next few weeks we will all be treated to a spectacle of children dressed up as witches and wizards carrying books and wands. You won’t have to look at your calendar to know it’s far too early to be Halloween. Unless you live under a... Read more |
 Comedy is both the easiest and hardest thing in the world to pull off successfully. To paraphrase When Harry Met Sally, everyone in the world thinks they have a sense of humor and good taste, but if that were true, then bad jokes and paintings of dogs... Read more |
 In the interest of full disclosure, I should begin by admitting that I am a recovering Orlando Bloom nutcase. By this, I mean that there was a time when I was consumed 24/7 by the greatness that was Will Turner, and it is with this former love that the... Read more |
 James Cameron’s Avatar, if ever made into a movie that remotely approaches the 170-page “scriptment” I have just finished reading, will bomb. Notice I don’t say it will suck. It might be entertaining, in a big-spectacle way, as nobody does spectacle like the King of the World. It might be... Read more |
 In this essay, CC2K Video Game Editor Big Ross turns a critical eye toward the depiction of his home state in the world of pop-culture and finds it woefully inaccurate ... for the most part.
For being a fly-over state, my home state of Kansas seems to show up... Read more |
 Actor David Carradine was found dead earlier today in his hotel room in Bangkok, Thailand. The preliminary police report indicates that he committed suicide by hanging. The actor was in Bangkok shooting his latest film. Read more |
 Witchcraft and cowboys and blood, oh my! After a slightly bizarre and mostly entertaining #0 preview issue, Salem’s Daughter kicks off with its first issue from the folks over at Zenescope Entertainment. . It’s been years and years since I’ve last been entertained by anything cowboy... Read more |
 One of the most interesting things about being a thirty-something in the new millennium is that by definition, this means that we grew up during a second, technology-based Renaissance. We have seen computers transform from huge, boxy behemoths that didn’t do much and were only owned by the rich,... Read more |
 In an age where most people have accepted the Hollywood adage that “all good stories have already been told before,” (a concept that, ironically, I have already covered before ), movie studios and producers are mining pre-existing material more than ever in the hope of... Read more |
 CC2K's Pop Culture Editor has some issues with the not-so-venerable Sci-Fi Channel, and he lays 'em all out here in an easy-to-read list.
I hate the Sci Fi Channel. But we all do, don't we? It's one of those unifying characteristics we all share, as appreciators of pop culture and... Read more |
 A nearly comprehensive guide to this epoch's most solid gold and peachy keen director. Well, OK, I've never seen The Cowboy and the Frenchman. Not surprisingly, people see David Lynch write and direct one of the most harrowing rape scenes in movie history, and they think he doesn't like women. They... Read more |
 Every nerd, geek, or fanboy has a group he (or she) can retreat to when he wants to hear unanimous agreement on any given subject. "Who hates the new Star Wars Trilogy?" "Who thought Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was Stupid/Awesome?" "Everyone agrees Aliens is the best film in... Read more |
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