Breaker Morant: Incivility in an uncivilized environment

Ask anybody who has seen combat and they’ll tell you all the poems are true. War really and truly is hell. In 5,000 years of recorded history that is one fact that has remained a constant. We try to keep the brutality civilized with rules of engagement and gentleman’s agreements like the Geneva Convention. The [...]

Bunraku: A post apocalyptic kung fu cowboy beat down

It happened again.  Sunday started, and I found myself without nary a thing to review for Faceplant this week.  As what often happens in these cases, I ended up on Netflicks, browsing the short descriptions for movies that I am too far out of touch with society to know about firsthand.  And like the other [...]

Sneakers: Wiki Leaks meets War Games

I’ve been pondering a subject lately that I think you might find interesting. Secrets. Particularly government secrets. When I started my career in journalism I saw it as my solemn duty to ensure that my government kept no secrets from the public. That is after all the whole reason the first amendment was created, so [...]

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

Remember the first Mission Impossible movie?  A confusing mess of a plot involving double and triple crosses, some cool action set pieces, and Tom Cruise RUNNING.  Seriously, dude looks good running.  We’re now on film number four in this franchise and the plot line stays pretty much the same.  The setting around it though, hoo [...]

Die Hard 2: YOU’RE A LOOSE CANNON, MCCLANE

Watching the Die Hard movies has been interesting.  For one, I learned that I have never actually watched any of the Die Hard movies from start to finish before now.  I’m not sure how I managed that, saying as how I was alive during the late 80s and early 90s.  If I had to guess, [...]

Rango: A Redneck Redwall story

I finally worked up the nerve to sit down and watch my way through Rango on Netflicks the other day, which is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while but had been dreading for quite some time.  I knew nothing about this film, basically.  Just that it featured a weird, possibly brain dead [...]

Atlas Shrugged: and so did I

This year marks the fifty-fifth anniversary of the publishing of Atlas Shrugged, the foundation of libertarian philosopher Ayn Rand‘s Objectivism ideals. In the years since her passing she has largely slipped from the public conscience and with the fall of communism her ideals have largely been taken for granted or simply left to decay like [...]

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry:

So my brother was in town for Easter. He’s extremely jealous of my Netflix subscription and HDTV, so we made good use of both during his visit. He had a real hankering for a car chase movie and for some reason Netflix isn’t currently streaming Bullitt or the original Italian Job so we looked elsewhere [...]

The Long Good Friday: How the Brits lost their Empire

The funny thing about British gangster movies is there are so few of them. While the list of New York mafia movies would extend beyond the tip of Long Island, the list for the Brits wouldn’t even top Big Ben. I imagine a lot of this has to do  with a perceived lack of violence [...]

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil: This isn’t your dad’s Chainsaw Massacre

What do you get when you mix the Bad Seed and Texas Chainsaw Massacre then film them from the wrong perspective? An hour and a half of pure, unadulterated movie bliss. I was mildly concerned that I had waited too long to see Tucker and Dale vs. Evil and the  anticipation would kill all hopes [...]