It didn’t take long for me to discover that I’m in a pretty meager minority with this one.  Most people that I’ve been talking to absolutely loved Avatar, James Cameron’s long-awaited follow-up to his 1997 megahit Titanic. Continue Reading

Here at ChopShop, we put our money where our mouth is.  So instead of just bitching about movies, we actually put our best foot forward trying to make them. Continue Reading

In reading reviews of James Cameron’s alien-centric opus Avatar, I feel like I’ve been seeing the same things over and over.  Most criticism comes from the fact that audiences simply don’t identify with characters or find the story simple, contrived, or cliche. Continue Reading

Growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, I was, interestingly enough, not a big fan of country music.  In fact, I hated it…hated every line about pickup trucks and going against the grain and losing your girl in a bottle of Tennessee whiskey. Continue Reading

I’ve been a Werner Herzog fan for a while and I’ve seen over 20 of his films.  While I can’t exactly say that Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is one of the German genius’s very best, it’s nevertheless nothing short of absolute must-see Herzog. Continue Reading

Howdy all. Back from a long absence at sea with a review of the latest in Oscar bait flicks about the war, Brothers. Continue Reading