Before I begin this vastly negative review for Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters, I think I need to establish my drug bona fides. The reason for that is because many, many people will dismiss the extreme level of hatred I have for this movie because they’ll think I don’t ‘get’ stoner … Continue reading
GI Jesus has a lot of things on its mind. It’s thinking about the war in Iraq. It’s thinking about immigration from Mexico. It’s thinking about how soldiers do or don’t reintegrate into society. It’s thinking about how being away affects a soldier’s family, and how the current stoploss policies hit them even harder. And … Continue reading
We’ve always known that Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodgriguez love trashy old b-movies at least as much as chicks and music. They sketched out their own a decade ago in From Dusk Till Dawn, and now they’ve finally gone full bore. The three-hour blast called Grindhouse exhumes, re-examines and reinvents the film’s namesake style. In … Continue reading
Even if you’ve always wanted to see the Book of Exodus enacted chapter and verse (with Louisiana doubling for Cairo) I highly suggest not rushing out to buy a ticket for The Reaping. It’s not so much a horror flick or thriller as an enaction of Christian fantasy, where any moral indecision can be resolved … Continue reading
Black Book is a Paul Verhoeven film, so you expect shocking, titillating moments. They’re there – a girl dyes her pubic hair, a Jewish resistance fighter sleeps with a Nazi, a giant vat filled with shit is dumped on someone – but it’s the murky moral ground where he sets the film that makes Black … Continue reading
Warning: This review contains spoilers and a rampaging lemur. The tragic misperception of grindhouse movies, furthered by fusty film critics who prefer their entertainment wholly honorable and resoundingly stale, is that they are, first and foremost, bad, thus suggesting that those who adore them are, at best, ironic in their appreciation or, at worst, taste-impaired. … Continue reading
When I used to say that I was really into grindhouse films, nobody knew what I was talking about. Now they’ll think I mean the Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino double feature. It’s like when Green Day made punk mainstream – you always had sort of assumed that punk would never get near the Top 40 because … Continue reading
If you’ve been paying any attention to the site lately, then you’ve probably already read our damn good back and forth with Will Arnett and Amy Poehler regarding Blades of Glory. Hilarious stuff. And if you were on the fence about the film, that probably did a lot to push you over toward seeing it. … Continue reading
I really don’t enjoy reading reviews that are reactions to other reviews rather than the film itself. I enjoy writing them even less. But I found myself battling with that as I tried to get my thoughts together on Scott Frank’s directorial debut The Lookout. There’s a good bit of praise coming from the critical … Continue reading