Hey, check out my review of TRANSFORMERS in this week’s LA WEEKLY (and OC WEEKLY too, but the LA version went online first).

Here’s a sample:

Essentially, what we’ve got here is a whole lot of maneuvering designed to facilitate a massive robot brawl on the streets of downtown L.A., which is pretending to be another city [...]

It’s all over, and if you missed any of my daily dispatches, they are all collected HERE for your convenience.

More pressing things on my mind now. A family thing I can’t really talk about at the moment is preoccupying my thoughts. Hope it’ll turn out to be nothing, but we just don’t know at the [...]

She’s 21 today.

Finally able to have her first taste of alcohol!

I’m not a psychologist, just the son of one.

We’ve been talking about what might have motivated Chris Benoit to do what he did. It occurred to me that his behavior is consistent with that of a wild animal — whatever it is that gives us the ability to reason over our animal instincts got turned [...]

Some called him the original quote-whore. Others remember his recent walkout of CLERKS II in a loud huff, which makes more sense if he knew he had cancer then — who’d want to waste time in a movie they hate, when time may be short?

Whatever his faults, he was one of the best known in [...]

A third screening was just added, due to popular demand.

Saturday, 5 p.m., at the Majestic Crest theater in Westwood. If you haven’t seen it yet, come out and support our pal, and independent horror as a whole.

I’m on fire blogging the LAFF

New posts daily, through Sunday. I’m not gonna remind you every day.

How do we deal with the loss of Chris Benoit?

On the one hand, you have a man whose career as a wrestler was exemplary, a man respected by all his peers as a stand-up dude, a great athlete, a hell of a talent, and a former world champion.

And yet the way he ended his life [...]

This is just terrible. Looks like he may have done something really bad too.

I don’t even want to speculate before the details are in, and I’m quite preoccupied with other stuff right now…so just read:

Only last week we lost Sensational Sherri, now this.

Benoit seemed to be one of the most stand-up, straightforward, least fucked-up guys [...]

Come see the LA premiere of our pal Ti West’s new film TRIGGER MAN tonight at LAFF. 10pm, Landmark’s Regent theater in Westwood. Should be a few familiar faces in the house.

And for those of you wondering why I haven’t been blogging this week, I have…A LOT.

Look over here.