Lobster Roll

No restaurant with the word “company” in its name is ever good, or at least that’s my experience. There’s something going on in the back of a nascent restranteur’s mind that inspires a select few to include it. They want to demonstrate a kind of down-to-basics approach to food, sort of like, “when you come [...]

Negadon: The Monster From Mars

If a tribute manages to be better than its inspiration, is it still a tribute? Or has it become something else entirely? Negadon: The Monster From Mars, a twenty-minute film released recently on DVD, is an homage to ’60s-era Japanese monster classics like Godzilla and Ultraman, but it ultimately becomes a more convincing endorsement for [...]

The Island

I just watched The Island on HBO, but this wasn’t the first time I’d seen it. I actually saw it in the theater a year ago. It piqued my interest because it sported something unusual for a Michael Bay film: a smattering of positive reviews. This struck me as odd, because Michael Bay (Bad Boys [...]