Splice is gross but refreshing. Put that on a poster, Warner Brothers! It’s refreshing because it’s a movie that makes you think. It grabs you by the collar and pulls you uncomfortably close and demands that you use your damn brain. It’s actually comical that a movie this thoughtful and challenging is opening … Continue reading
So there’s this island, right? Hey wait – where you going? Come back! It’s not what you think. Anyway, Survival Of The Dead takes place mostly on an island, where the dead are coming back to life and there are a couple different factions warring over how to rule the island, and there … Continue reading
Okay, so obviously it was a bad idea. Don’t get me wrong – after giving it a chance, I’m glad they gave it a whirl. But a bomb is a bomb is a bomb, and that’s not a MacGruber in-joke either. People just plain didn’t want to see a movie based on a SNL … Continue reading
Spoiler Warning: This whole article is gonna be spoilers. Y’all been warned! You might think this is kind of sad, but aside from the pilot and the finale and maybe a couple of other exceptions, I’ve always watched Lost alone. There are 121 episodes in total, and I’ve watched the majority of them … Continue reading
Outlander arrives on Blu-Ray today. I’ve had this article lying around for quite a while. Seems like the last reasonable opportunity to deploy it, so: Enjoy! The other day, I found a stack of my old artwork from my high school years. I didn’t remember myself as being the little metalhead that the … Continue reading
There were so many talented people driving the new Robin Hood movie, and so much obvious expense and energy involved in its making, that it’s somewhat bewildering to notice that what has ended up onscreen is just plain not what you want out of a Robin Hood movie. Well, it ultimately manages to get … Continue reading
At its best moments, Iron Man 2 is a thrillingly convincing argument for how much goddamn fun it would be to hop into that suit and be Iron Man. Scratch that. At its best moments, Iron Man 2 is a depressingly convincing argument for why Ryan Reynolds is the luckiest sonofabitch … Continue reading
This world can be mighty unkind to men of imagination. That seems to be a running theme for Terry Gilliam, both on-screen and off. Considering the fact that the man is a founding member of the Monty Python comedy troupe and the fact that as a film director, he has made movies like Brazil, … Continue reading
For all those who read my Kick-Ass review and wrote me off as a humorless prick who can’t enjoy cult objects of questionable cinematic value which feature over-the-top Nicolas Cage performances, I’ll have you know that I got a total kick out of Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans. This of course is … Continue reading
Immediately upon arrival, the R-rated Kick-Ass has stirred up some small controversy with its inordinate amount of profanity and its extreme violence, most of that involving an eleven-year-old girl. I guess that’s controversial, but haven’t we already had those conversations before, with movies as far back as The Professional? We should probably never be totally comfortable … Continue reading