PotterWatch is a special group of posts on Just Plain Something dedicated to a certain film franchise about a certain teenage wizard. Sometimes, the internet is generous to this lowly blogger. I was just finishing up my cartoon column...
A while ago, I wrote a post about the apparent confirmation that Joseph Gordon-Levitt would be playing Alberto Falcone in the third and last of Christopher Nolan’s Batman films. Well, a day or two later, I edited that post,...
You know what I hate? When Hollywood takes lovely stories from my childhood and makes them crappy and cheap. They did it with Cheaper by the Dozen (the original was a lovely little film), Rocky and Bullwinkle and Yogi...
I’ve mentioned before that I am pretty darn excited about the Hobbit films. My boyfriend was always a huge Lord of the Rings trilogy fan, but my real exposure to Tolkien was through The Hobbit. It’s a very different...
Yesterday, I spent the majority of my time awake playing the newly released Portal 2. It was fun, compelling, dark and everything I’d expect and more from the sequel of Valve’s surprise hit. This week also marks a year...
“This is breaking and entering. This is illegal.” “But it’s for justice, so it’s legal again.” There are certain movies you know you’re probably going to like because of the people associated with it. As I’ve gotten caught up...
When I first started Just Plain Something (coming close to two years ago), one of the first things I wrote about was the confirmation that there would be a live-action Smurfs movie – although I noticed that it was...