The Film Skinny

Welcome to the Film Skinny blog. This — appropriately for a film blog — is a sequel of sorts to The DVD Playa blog to which I (rarely) posted over the past few months. I hope to make this followup join the list of sequels that were actually better than the original: "The Empire Strikes Back," "X2," "T2," "Spiderman 2," "Star Trek II," "Evil Dead II" and, arguably, "The Godfather II." (What have I forgotten?) But then again, I doubt any director ever intentionally made a sequel worse than the original, unless you count Gus Van Sant's shot-for-shot remake of "Psycho" a sequel. (I sure don't.)

At any rate, this will be a (cyber)space for me to dump the innumerable random thoughts and unsolicited opinions that spawn from my unhealthy love affair with movies. Join me in my rantings and ravings, won't you neighbor?