I have to admit that I was a Street Fighter fan way back in college. No, I wouldn’t shame myself in being a fan of the horrid Street Fighter movie! I’m talking about the video game. I used to play Chun-Li while my then boyfriend kicked my butt around practicing the moves of the other characters....

I've been reading J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion off and on over the past month. At first, as I noted in a previous entry, I found it hard to sustain my interest. The doings of gods and demi-gods only excite me insofar as they pertain to less powerful beings. And the prose, more "antiqued" than t...

Found this ad for Coraline in this morning’s newspaper: It’s kind of hard to read, between the pixel size and the printing, but the funniest bit is the blue sidebar on “Finding the Tastiest Beetles:” Beetles are delicious creatures that live close to home. If you use beetles ...

Some entertainment stuff I’m looking forward to this year: Movies: Coraline YouTube also has the trailer in HD. I discovered Sandman late, borrowing the trades from one of my (younger) brother’s friends around 1998 or so, then immediately tracking down my own copies. I lucked out and got...

One scene in Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has always stuck with me. Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion are in the Emerald City about to meet the Wizard for the first time. Unlike in the 1939 film, they are only allowed to see him one at a time. First Dorothy enters, and...

Battlestar Galactica As we move into the second half of the final season, will all really be revealed? Season Four has been good, definitely better than Season 3 (which IMO got bogged down by the Starbuck/Apollo “plot”), though the logic of the Final Five Minus One doesn’t make muc...

A good film review ought to be as entertaining as the film that inspired it.  That's the 'high concept' behind our  Movie Smackdown! site -- a whole new format in film reviews.  While For What It's Worth takes a short Thanksgiving holiday, we want to introduce you w...

Several months ago I was browsing the local Blockbuster video store for a movie to rent, and I stumbled across one that made me laugh out loud. It’s the title on the right, and you’ll see why if you compare it to the rather more well-known title on the left. I mean, seriously, look how c...

The Smackdown . This may turn out to be our All-Time Heavyweight Smackdown -- the equivalent of Ali versus Frasier -- where both of the fighters are at the top of their games and both deserve to wear the champion's belt even though only one can.  The DC/Warner "The Dark Knight" in the...

Horny cineastes will surely go ga-ga over the news that Robert Rodriguez is going to remake Red Sonja with Rose McGowan in the lead. According to reports, Rodriguez will produce the new Red Sonja movie for a possible 2010 release. McGowan is reportedly stoked about her new movie role and so is Rodri...