tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188080272011-07-28T18:03:08.169-07:00Greg Joachimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09323594578287491619noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18808027.post-207478526606980672009-08-11T23:49:00.000-07:002009-08-12T00:08:38.373-07:00

I’ve just posted my first review in almost seven months at theMINIPLEX:It’s a damn fine movie that moves without following romance convention, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel are pitch-perfect throughout. You’ll definitely want to catch it once it hits your neck of the woods. In other news, I can’t stop watching the trailer for Fantastic Mr. Fox. Wes Anderson has a hard time

Greg Joachimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09323594578287491619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18808027.post-46718110485875683282009-01-31T21:48:00.000-08:002009-01-31T23:27:15.818-08:00

The future is roughly now, my friends. Get on the boat.I'm proud, happy, excited, and mildly nervous to announce theMINIPLEX 4.2, the latest and greatest in my own special brand of web design by redundant coding! Far greater than the incarnations before it, behold some nifty new stuff I've thrown in to double your pleasure:Reviews! I used to write these pretty often, but have managed to get only

Greg Joachimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09323594578287491619noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18808027.post-61829936762122092882008-01-26T23:31:00.000-08:002008-01-26T23:55:35.167-08:00

A week shy of a full year since the last one, I've finally thrown together a full fucking review. Call it a New Year's resolution of mine to get back on the horse, and forgive a style that differs greatly from that of a year ago. Maybe you'll like it better?At any rate, here she be, posted in raw and unproofread form. At least three instances of misspellings or awkward grammar or your money back.

Greg Joachimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09323594578287491619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18808027.post-8252755180586707462007-10-28T23:46:00.001-07:002007-10-29T00:10:42.856-07:00

Though I am on the verge of motivating myself to review a film that took me by surprise, I have decided to fight our blog's current stagnation by posting the list of every film I've seen this year.I started tracking the films I watch in the Summer of 2005, but initially recorded only theater viewings. By the start of 2006, I was recording every movie I watched.I track date viewed (though I

Greg Joachimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09323594578287491619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18808027.post-69832325622261387222007-08-18T22:23:00.000-07:002007-08-18T22:51:39.343-07:00

A few notes on some recently digested flicks, including commentary on any indigestion that might have ensued: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix I took this beast in on IMAX 3D and reacted by merely exiting the auditorium and relieving the Mountain Dew that got me through it. My understanding of Harry Potter and his cineverse (I’ve read exactly none of the books) didn’t seem

Greg Joachimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09323594578287491619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18808027.post-72727239247667483532007-07-22T21:08:00.000-07:002007-07-23T00:12:46.544-07:00

I'll tell you what: I finally re-(or mis-)prioritized my life to make a blog entry to this fantastic world called the Internet. I've had lots of excuses to put it off the last few weeks, from English papers to weddings to basking in the world of transformers for the first time in essentially twenty years, but I was finally chided into responding about what I'm looking forward to this year (happy

Charlie Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10232907512920386034noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18808027.post-14641133679222790082007-07-15T03:21:00.000-07:002007-07-15T05:12:55.648-07:00

I feel compelled to defend myself against the accusation that I am uninterested in 2007’s remaining releases. While there is certainly no King Kong on the horizon (oh, how I miss those production diaries), there are at least a few upcoming releases have managed to catch my attention for reasons that mostly differ from potential headiness. In the name of proving Chuck wrong (and to hopefully

Greg Joachimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09323594578287491619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18808027.post-19407686560061264622007-06-29T17:42:00.000-07:002007-06-30T04:11:39.359-07:00

At any given time, I’m harboring one or two secret crushes on upcoming movies. They’re usually projects that have little or no buzz behind them, and they almost invariably build to a roaring crescendo by the time they come out. They also almost invariably star Natalie Portman. Like Garden State and V For Vendetta before it, I have been anticipating the Portman-starring Mr. Magorium’s

Greg Joachimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09323594578287491619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18808027.post-80773008665565870932007-06-26T02:05:00.001-07:002007-06-26T02:29:39.258-07:00

As usually happens when a new installment of a series that I hold in some fond regard comes along, I’ve revisited the chapters before it. The series of the moment is that of our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man – a series that, as I recently discovered, bridges my rather recent (going on 4 years) surge of interest in film. I scrapped together my first film review in early 2004, but the interest

Greg Joachimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09323594578287491619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18808027.post-52222343818104366692007-06-18T23:04:00.000-07:002007-07-07T23:49:55.096-07:00

Two years later, my memory of Fantastic Four is pretty dim. I didn’t really consider this a problem until Rise of the Silver Surfer rolled into theatres, but the crew behind the production did a good job of confirming that my memory loss was hardly a loss. With the exception of a pending marriage and a few character traits, very little has been ported from original to sequel. A blessing in

Greg Joachimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09323594578287491619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18808027.post-1169804548881544312007-01-26T01:39:00.000-08:002007-01-26T02:02:29.246-08:00

I was catching up on a few bygone episodes of The Triple Feature (a weekly film discussion by the minds behind Theatre Hopper, Joe Loves Crappy Movies and Multiplex) the other day when Mike Judge’s Idiocracy entered the talk. Fox gave the film a very limited release after shortchanging its financing and truncating its production, making it a virtually straight-to-DVD release. Interesting, seeing

Greg Joachimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09323594578287491619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18808027.post-1156040245077055802006-08-19T19:16:00.000-07:002006-08-19T19:18:34.566-07:00

Today is a day of many hellos. You’ll be meeting professors, classmates, drivers who hit you in the crosswalk, and people around your dorm. To that extent, allow me to introduce myself - I’m Greg. Now it’s time for me to bid you farewell.It’s not that I don’t like you, or that the strange odor that envelopes you is unpleasant, I’ve just managed to scrap together a degree, so it’s time for me to

Greg Joachimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09323594578287491619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18808027.post-1154241633468884252006-07-30T02:53:00.000-07:002006-07-30T00:15:16.576-07:00

As the seventh month of this cinematic year comes to a close, I thought it might be a good time to take a look ahead. We certainly can't look back, as this dud of a year has failed to turn in enough good films to complete a midpoint top ten list. It’d be more like a top seven - and a rather depressing one, at that.The movies that follow are those that I most look forward to seeing, not

Greg Joachimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09323594578287491619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18808027.post-1149656239847513592006-06-07T00:35:00.000-07:002006-06-06T22:24:25.086-07:00

The first trailer for Woody Allen's newest flick Scoop is online and in theaters, and it's just such a damn fun tease that I can't help but be excited for the potential of the final film.Allen marked a return to form (the degree of which is a matter of great variance across his fan base) with 2005's Match Point, and appears to be on the brink of another hit. Two in a row? That's what we call a

Greg Joachimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09323594578287491619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18808027.post-1143566895092592222006-06-05T09:28:00.000-07:002006-06-05T23:08:14.536-07:00

This article really isn't very good at all – you're probably better off to stop reading right now, actually. I'm just warning you up front. I don’t want your expectations to get out of control.Through many years of watching, enjoying, and – more often than not – disliking movies, I've noticed that the fate of some films is determined before they even begin production. The best example that I

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