Director: George Clooney Starring: Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Evan Rachel Wood, Marisa Tomei If you take a look at the cast in The Ides of March, your first thought should be in the realm of “holy crap! That looks awesome!” What you probably wouldn’t expect is that this political thriller … Continue reading »
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Paranormal Activity 3
Directors: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman Starring: Chloe Csengery, Jessica Tyler Brown, Christopher Nicholas Smith I saw the first Paranormal Activity film back in 2007 when it came out and I liked it. I thought it was something of a novelty and did a very good job of creating and building tension without having much happen … Continue reading »
NFL Quick Picks: Week 8
Okay, here are my quick picks for the week. Remember, it’s solely against the spread and I’m doing quite horribly at it (I’m still somewhere around 50%). Home team in CAPS. Indianapolis Colts over TENNESSEE TITANS (-9.5) New Orleans Saints over ST. LOUIS RAMS (+10.5) Miami Dolphins over NEW YORK GIANTS (-9.5) CAROLINA PANTHERS (-3.5) … Continue reading »
NFL Quick Picks: Week 5
Here are my picks for the week. Home team in CAPS Philadelphia over BUFFALO (+2.5) Cincinnati over JACKSONVILLE (-2.5) Tennessee over PITTSBURGH (-7.5) INDIANAPOLIS (-2.5) over Kansas City Oakland over HOUSTON (-6.5) MINNESOTA (-2.5) over Arizona New Orleans over CAROLINA (+5.5) NEW YORK GIANTS (-9.5) over Seattle Tampa Bay over SAN FRANCISCO (-1.5) San Diego … Continue reading »
Arbitrary NFL Power Rankings
So we’re a quarter into the NFL season already, and last year I did power rankings for every single week of the season. Frankly, I feel that this was overkill since there’s not that much change from week to week, and since doing rankings are fairly arbitrary anyways, I feel that it was a good … Continue reading »
50/50
Director: Jonathan Levine Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick Adam is a 27 year old guy with one close friend named Kyle, a mother who worries all the time, a father with dementia, and a girlfriend who takes him for granted. At the beginning of this film, Adam is a character who has the … Continue reading »
Week 4 NFL Quick Picks
Here are my picks for the week (home team in CAPS): Buffalo over CINCINNATI (+3.5) CHICAGO (-6.5) over Carolina Tennessee over CLEVELAND (-1.5) Detroit over DALLAS (-3.5) Minnesota over KANSAS CITY (+1.5) ST. LOUIS (-.5) over Washington New Orleans over JACKSONVILLE (+7.5) PHILADELPHIA (-6.5) over San Francisco Pittsburgh over HOUSTON (-3.5) SEATTLE (+4.5) over Atlanta … Continue reading »
