Dan Liebke’s Astonishing Tales

Watched United 93 the other night - the spine-tingling real-time account of the events of United Flight 93, the one plane hijacked on September 11th that didn’t hit its target. A fantastic film, evoking all the terror, fear and confusion of that day as the heroic passengers of the flight fought back against the terrorists, [...]

I caught a bit of Aeon Flux on television last night (sound turned down, obviously). I’m reasonably sure the only lesson one can take away from this little slice of cinematic crumpet is this:
If it’s time for you to meet your maker, then being strangled by a nude Charlize Theron, brazenly straddling you is almost certainly the [...]

I’ve seen a few television ads now for the new version of Journey To The Centre Of The Earth (or ‘Center’ if you prefer, Americanos) and one quote from Brendan Fraser continues to stick, limpet-like, to my brain: “We’re surrounded by lava!!”.
To which I say, Brendan, dude. You’re in the centre/center of the Earth! Of course you’re surrounded by freakin’ [...]

I watched the Australia horror flick Rogue the other night. It’s a charming little effort about a killer crocodile eating a group of damn fool tourists who dare to wander into its turf (in this, the croc is much like Janice Dickinson on her reality show Dear God, How Can Any One Person Be So Soul-Destroyingly Awful?). Ha ha ha! [...]

I saw 27 Dresses the other night. Pretty much as expected. After all, a romantic comedy without a scene where Katherine Heigl pouts sadly? Why, to my way of thinking, that’s no romantic comedy at all.
However, while brainstorming with Gnat, we couldn’t help but wish for something more. Perhaps, given the titular (yes, Beavis, ‘titular’) [...]

Dark Knight was clearly an awesomeish kind of movie. Director Christopher Nolan seems to more or less know what he’s doing, now that he’s got the hang of showing movies in proper chronological order. But having carefully watched the movie several hundred times now, I think I’ve worked out where the next flick in the [...]

What I find interesting about Iron Man as a superhero, major motion picture soundtrack and recovering alcoholic is that, of all the superheroes out there, Mr Stark is just about the only one whose costume doesn’t require ironing.
I’d be tempted to call this ‘ironic’, but I fear this would just cause even greater nomenclature confusion. [...]

I enjoyed The Simpsons Movie. It was like watching a back-to-back-to-back episode of the TV show, something I wouldn’t otherwise be able to see unless I was watching television on Saturday morning, Sunday morning, Tuesday night, every weekday morning during the school holidays or any time I happened to have one of my Simpsons DVD [...]

Sign you’re getting old: When, halfway through the Transformers movie, amidst the explosions and the carnage and the non-stop bemusement that the hot chick in the film is dating Beverly Hills, 90210 ’star’ Brian Austin Green in real life, you find yourself hoping the movie will, at some point, transform itself into one with a [...]

Fact!! The original cut of the smash-hit film The Usual Suspects, had ‘And starring Kevin Spacey as Kayser Soze’ at the end of the opening credits. Producers of the film agree this was a major contributor to this cut being a ‘disaster’ in audience testing. They claim the removal of this credit made the twist [...]