Here at Sod, we can only go about two to three good months without making a list of some sort before we start getting all itchy and distempered.  Thankfully, next week we get to satisfy our joneses before being reduced to manning street corners and soliciting johns for list ideas. 
 

As I sit in my office today, foot twitching, face freshly painted like a clown, impatiently waiting for midnight to roll around so I can start watching The Dark Knight already, I have decided to help pass the time with a Batman-themed blog post. To that end, I wanted to do a side-by-side-by-side-by-side-by-side-by-side comparison of [...]

So as any nerd reading this can tell you (Nerd call-out: What up, nerds!), the iPhone 3g came out this last week and, like its predecessor, inspired long lines of impatient dorks to line up outside AT&T dealers nationwide (and by nationwide, I mean everywhere but North Dakota, as we have neither AT&T cellular service [...]

Eddie Murphy’s Meet Dave comes out today… You may have been unfortunate enough to see the trailers–something about tiny aliens landing on Earth and trying to learn about humanity by going around in a human-sized robot.  Both the head alien and the robot are played by Eddie Murphy.  Murphy seems to be double cast without [...]

Want to know how I can tell that I’m getting old? Because I’ve reached the stage where I become angered by commercials to the point where I feel the need to write about it. Oh, well. At least I’m not sending it the editor of the local newspaper. Nope. I’m blogging about it. And now [...]

Has it really been more than a decade since Will Smith first watched us all respond to his first July 4 bomb? Independence Day, and by extension Will Smith, sort of began the huge July 4 action blockbuster tradition.  Opening weekend numbers since ID4 (which earned $50.2MM) have been mixed–Men In Black earned $51.1; [...]

I had already planned to eventually watch the Russian vampire trilogy–the record-setting Night Watch, its sequel Day Watch, and the yet-to-be-released Twilight Watch–but after watching Timur Bekmambetov’s Wanted, the first two are now at the top of my Queue…

James McAvoy plays Wesley Gibson, a broke Account Service Rep–no, Account Manager–with a boss from hell, a [...]

I don’t think I have to tell you about the many delights to be had from seeing a Pixar movie in the theater. I have seen all of them to this point and I like them all, even that one about the NASCAR cars with Larry the Cable Guy, which makes me hate myself more [...]

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The Constantines define catharsis. Their music is roiling drumbeat punctuated by growls, yelps and howls and cut with cleaver-like guitars. I caught them last night at the Doug Fir, touring in support of their latest, Hard Feelings, which is another step forward for them artistically, as well as a hard-charging [...]

I have been slacking with my SodBlog movie reviews… I’ve been slacking with my movie watching. In the past month, I’ve seen only four films, and two of them were this past Thursday night. I saw Indy IV : The Dream Master on opening weekend but was too slow in my reviewing of [...]