Brunching Reloaded

If you’re one of the last people on the internet to have noticed that Brunching Shuttlecocks officially shut themselves down, you also might have been as slow as I was to notice that you can still read the best part of their site, the Ratings, at The Book of Ratings. I’ll probably stop by the Self-Made Critic site occassionally, too, because I generally only read movie reviews after I’ve already seen the movie. This allows me to play the “were the women cute enough to warrant an extra star from Ebert” game, and to snort at lines like this from the Self-Made Critic’s Matrix Reloaded review: “I’m not sure exactly when it happened, perhaps during the slow-motion montage featuring left-over footage from Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit video, but early on there was a point when it suddenly dawned on me that I was watching a bad movie.”