I'm going to try and do a better job writing more regularly. It's been a while since I've been able to do regular movie updates. However, it's awards season, and I'm going to make a push to watch as many of the big nominees as I can. First up, Moneyball.

Of all of the Marvel properties, Thor is the one that I was most concerned about coming to the big screen. Not only am I less attached the character than the other Avengers, Thor is seemingly difficult to ground in reality. Where Hulk, Iron Man, and Spider-Man are fantastical characters, at least they live in some version of the real world. However, with Thor, there’s no hiding from for how comic-booky it is. The character lives in another realm draped in Norse mythology, and this film takes this stuff head on.

Let’s say you took a roomful of the biggest geeks you could find and asked them to describe the coolest thing they could think off. You’d get ideas of steam-punk inspired, World War fighting Zombies, mechs and machine guns, Shogun warriors, sword-wielding robots, dragons and Orcs – all mixing it up with bad-ass, scantily clad chicks. And you’d also have the intense, over-stylized action scenes from Sucker Punch.

This marks my 2nd year of reviewing the Oscars, and the second straight deal of being frustrated with the results.

“Check it out. Dustin Hoffman, 'Rain Man,' look retarded, act retarded, not retarded. Counted toothpicks, cheated cards. Autistic, sho'. Not retarded. You know Tom Hanks, 'Forrest Gump.' Slow, yes. Retarded, maybe. Braces on his legs. But he charmed the pants off Nixon and won a ping-pong competition. That ain't retarded. Peter Sellers, "Being There." Infantile, yes. Retarded, no. You went full retard, man. Never go full retard. You don't buy that? Ask Sean Penn, 2001, "I Am Sam." Remember? Went full retard, went home empty handed...”