Dan Liebke's Astonishing Tales

The GI Joe movie is here! And, of course, I’ve been given secret promotional material links to help promote it, because isn’t that what promotional material is all about? The promoting? Hell, yeah. But you know what kind of promotion I miss? The dance craze tie-in. Remember how, for 1989′s Batman, The Artist Currently Known [...]

Perhaps the most compelling evidence that Tarantino has lost none of his precocious genius resides in the title of his latest cinematic offering. Kill Bill. Brilliant!! I predict that rhyming titles will now sweep through Hollywood like some kind of verbal plague, much as pseudo-witty tangential dialogue as a counterpoint to the brutal violence of [...]

I’d like to see a movie come out about an underprivileged boy who takes up yo-yoing as a hobby and is eventually given the chance to win the world yo-yo championships. Which he does against all odds and despite devious yo-yo tampering. It would be the feelgood movie of the year a la Rocky, The [...]