Have I ruined contemporary films lately by mentioning how they're all shot in blue/orange contrast?

It takes special skills to make fun of something even as you pay tribute to it. Sure, anyone can make a sandwich. Let's see you make one that mocks the entire notion of putting meat between sliced bread.

Prediction: I would have enjoyed high school more if I'd had superpowers.

The Grey reminded me how much I love wilderness survival movies.

For reasons that boil down to we should all just give up, we have accepted the presence of marketers in our everyday life.

Japan has a reputation for weirdness. It's to the point where you can say anything about the place and someone will believe you.

Even a volleyball-playing Tom Cruise can't disprove the fact there's nothing cooler than an American fighter pilot.

Expectations are a bummer. I'm about to talk up a pretty good movie, raising your expectations for its actual goodness.

Sometimes, all it takes to kick a movie up a notch is to change the setting.

In general, messages in movies are not a good idea.

It's not really fair how obvious some mistakes look in retrospect.

It hasn't been a good year for alien movies.

What's the most boring thing in the world?

I spent much of my teens and early 20s combing video stores, which I hear still exist, for the weirdest little horror movies I could hunt down.

The existence of genres and subgenres is a pretty fascinating thing.

When presented with a range of unfamiliar food, the safest bet for delicious will be snagging whatever's stuffed with something else.

I have been derelict in my duties.

Some people are so talented you can't help but want to steal their hearts and livers, boil them into heart-liver stew, and drink it down to make that talent your own.

Canadians can be sneaky. Contrary to stereotype, you can't spot one just by listening for telltale "ehs" or strange insults about water-sprayers.

As George Clooney says in The Descendants...wait, I can't quote that at all.

Aside from all the horror, dread and interminable teary goodbyes from family and loved ones, knowing the exact minute the world will end would be pretty great.

I thought I was done with the Twilight series. As usual, I was wrong, because it was either that or those damn dancing penguins.

It is common knowledge that the original movie is always superior to the remake. For confirmation, look no further than the two Day of the Deads or the nine-month sentence you got on that second DUI.

Sometimes I feel bad about today's modern killer.

You can tell Tower Heist understands we're a smart and savvy audience by the way its title is exactly what the movie is.

Time is a lot like water: abundant, necessary for life, and sold to you in bottles by the Coca-Cola company, which has convinced you it is cleaner and tastier than the time that comes out of the tap.

Dying is typically the best move a person can make.

The first Paranormal Activity was shot for $15,000 by writer/director Oren Peli. Worldwide, it grossed about $193 million.

The Thing is a movie I will happily interrupt my life for.

People are constantly surprised that no one has ever tried to be a superhero in real life, but you have to realize superheroes don't get paid.

What would you pay more to see: two dudes beating the tar out of each other, or two androids knocking the motor oil out of each other?

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. A once-great empire lies crippled by poor financial decisions and the abandonment of the core values that led it to prominence. Idealism is all but dead as costs soar while resources dwindle.

Is there anything better than going to the theater and being wildly surprised by what you just saw?

Good art helps us make sense of the stuff that doesn't.

Did you know that in addition to being a sci-fi/fantasy nerd, I'm also a baseball nerd?

Pro tip: movie characters do not make for great role models.

People complain about formulas for being rote and boring, but I say they're a good thing. If we didn't have the quadratic formula, how the hell would we solve whatever it is that thing solves? We'd still be hitting each other with sticks here.

I would have to say the creepiest thing about viruses is some people don't consider them to technically be alive.

Recently, a NASA spokesman went on record stating that Apollo 18, the new sci-fi horror flick about astronauts dying on the moon, is not, in fact, a documentary.

Before we consider cutting library funding in this time of fiscal crisis, we should step back, as a nation, and remember that without them, we'll be helpless in the face of any timeless horrors that roll into town.

As much as I like movies made in and about the '70s, I think I'd have hated to live then. I mean, just think about how sweet we got it now. I don't think they even had texting in the '70s. Meanwhile, we get all the Transformers sequels we can watch, which for the 9 percent of us without a job adds up to a heck of a lot of Transformers. 

Despite being a wasteland so terrible people were inventing time machines just to get out of the place, the '80s were a pretty cool time for B-movie genres.

Movies about technology are kind of screwed at this point. The car phones and green text of 20 years ago already looks as ancient as the prototype for the club. The technology in sci-fi movies like Sunshine and Minority Report is essentially what Apple plans to release in 2012.

Basing a goofy crime comedy on a real-life case full of horrific violence: great idea or greatest idea?

Whenever I need to cool off and blow off some stress, I go for a nice, relaxing walk down the middle of the highway.

Some movies, much like some children, are destined to fail.

Subcultures are a fascinating thing.

These days, pop culture is so mashed-up it feels weird when the vampire novel doesn't have sexy werewolves in it.

I've done some science on this, and it turns out Captain America is the greatest name in the history of names.

Hey guys, have you heard about this whole Harry Potter thing?