Now with added sodium!

As mentioned on the parent site, Tom's Mental Stew, this blog will be devoted to reviews and thoughts on movies and cinema in general. Heck maybe even the occasional bit of theatre.

My rating system will attempt to use the perplexing metaphor of microwavable popcorn in order to illustrate my overall impressions of a given film. For example, to describe a film I mostly enjoyed, the rating could be, 'Lightly buttered and pleasingly salty". Conversely, if a film was a complete abomination, I might summarize it as: 'Unpopped and Blackened'. In other words, it will be completely arbitrary and inconsistent. Take that, statistics!
In any case, suffice it to say that you'll come away with a general impression of how I felt about the film. Here's hoping for fewer unpopped kernels...