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Edge of Tomorrow

The concept art for the Mimics. I thought it looked pretty cool.

I’m usually a little nervous going into any Tom Cruise movie (such as Oblivion), but as soon as I realized how smarmy the character he was playing was to start with, I decided it would be all right. He’s always totally believable as a self-centered jerk, which is certainly what Major William Cage is to start with. The only reason he’s in the Army is because he was in ROTC in college and after the advertising firm he worked for went under, he decided the patriotic thing to do was to sell the military.
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The Raven

Poe exercising his second greatest talent: starting bar fights.

As the movie’s opening helpfully informs us, Edgar Allan Poe was found in a bad state in October, 1849, in Baltimore, and died not long thereafter. “In a bad state”, for Poe, was very likely code for “falling down drunk”, but no one’s absolutely sure of that, or even exactly what he died of, though it certainly might have been liver failure. The movie has him found on a park bench, though some sources claim he was found in the gutter, while others say it was in a pub, but hey, I don’t think anyone’s shocked at the idea that a Hollywood movie dramatized the facts a little too much.

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