About this blog

I suppose every blog tends to start with a "Hello, World" entry, and I suppose that this is that entry for this particular blog.

To plow through the awkwardness of the blank page, then, I'll open with a bit about me. I am a 30-year-old ex-electrical-engineer and current professional online poker player named Greg Shaffer. I keep a separate blog, which contains content related to life and online poker career at Max EV, but the content of this particular blog will be kept more focused. As the title suggests, I will be reviewing movies and TV shows that I either own or acquire via DVD. My brother and sister-in-law surprised me with a six month subscription to Blockbuster Online for Christmas this year (my brother is in the Air Force and will be deployed over Christmas, so we had our Christmas over Thanksgiving) and I plan on abusing the hell out of it, and writing my impressions of the movies and TV shows that I garner through the service onto this blog.

As such, this blog will contain few if any reviews of recent movies. I might occasionally look through new TV shows as they air, but as I prefer to write about TV shows by the season, that seems less likely.

I have reviewed movies in the past - for a few years, some friends of mine and I kept a movie review site going called "Those Guys' Movie Reviews" which eventually faded into oblivion, but what few readers we encountered tended to react pretty favorably.

So, to start off, my first reviews will be of movies that I missed on their first appearance, that I meant to catch up on, but that I was not enthusiastic enough about to purchase or rent on my own.

In my possession: Iron Man, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and Mulholland Dr..