The Help was released over the weekend and enjoyed a respectable box office take. This left me in a bit of a quandary because I love the traffic that comes from reviewing a newly released movie, but…I have no intention whatsoever of watching The Help. After all, even if it […]
I’m about to say something that will no doubt earn me heaps of derision and scorn, but I don’t care, because it has to be said: Rise of the Planet of the Apes is the most entertaining movie I’ve seen in the theater in years. Note that I called it […]
So far, we’ve had the cool guy and the criminal. Now, it’s time to hit you with the ladies’ man. And, in the annals of film, there has never been a ladies’ man like David Wooderson. “Who is David Wooderson?,” you might ask, if you were an awful being that […]
Continuing in the proud Papa’s Basement tradition of film reviews written well after opening weekend (rendering them useless to the majority of you), I present my take on a comedy I had high hopes for: Horrible Bosses. While the premise didn’t seem particularly inventive (three workers who are saddled with […]
A few months ago, while watching FX‘s Archer, I saw a preview for Wilfred, the network’s new show about a depressed man who, along with the viewer, sees his neighbor’s dog Wilfred as a vice-laden human in a dog suit. One could assume that the majority of the show’s humor […]
Originally, I had planned to spend the day penning another entry in my Vegas Vacation series which, by now, is officially longer than The Stand. My designs were changed, however, by a conversation with two friends at work (Chris Lingebach and Othello Bouchareb, whose radio show can be heard on […]
The film Kick-Ass was released a little over a year ago. A tale of a comic-obsessed teen who decides to don a mask himself and fight crime, it sounds like something I would have loved to flush two hours of my life down the toilet with. Only I didn’t, my […]
Last week it was my friend Richard’s birthday. I wanted to do something nice for him because he’s one of the few people I know whose heart isn’t a ball of carrion which bleeds rattlesnake venom, so I figured I’d take him to a movie. The problem is, Rich’s taste […]
Every so often, while pissing my life away via Netflix and its insidious instant streaming capabilities, I stumble upon a gem of a show I wasn’t previously aware of. Then, because I have no self control, instead of savoring an episode here and an episode there, I make like a […]