The Scary Movie series is everything insidious and wrong with this generation’s comedy films. I’m not saying that to get up on some high horse and pretend that comedy cinema was pure good until 2000, but at least bad 80s comedies had the decency to offer up some flat-chested blonde […]
Six years have gone by since the original live-action Transformers. With the passage of time, it’s becoming more and more obvious that the film is seen as a rather seminal achievement in summer popcorn cinema. And that is depressing on so many levels. Let’s be honest: The first Transformers was […]
Not to let the cat out of the bag, but I use Rotten Tomatoes aggregate rating for a movie as a guideline for how my reviews are going to go. And that’s why Spring Breakers has me somewhat confused: With a current score of 69 (haha) percent, it probably isn’t […]
This might sound weird because I look reasonably caucasian, but The Wizard of Oz meant nothing in my household. I saw the movie once as a child. It was at a neighbor’s house, and the the only thing I remember is that his dog Sasha took a white shit on […]
I love “reimagined” art. There’s nothing quite like making a movie out of a board game or rapping over 20 percent of a song and releasing it as a new track that announces to the world Americans now find creativity “faggy”. (As an aside, “reimagined” is my favorite make-believe word […]
We all remember and love the original Die Hard, that film featuring unlikely hero Bruce Willis as policeman John McClane who, along with Carl Winslow, foiled the plot of a pack of Kraut terrorists to steal millions in bearer bonds. The movie worked for a variety of reasons, chief among […]
Without having seen it, I can safely say that Identity Thief embodies all that is wrong in comedy. The plot is contrived. (A man whose identity is stolen goes on a cross-country trip to seek out the person who stole it. Because one responds to crimes like these by becoming […]
Judd Apatow seems like a nice, talented guy. Some of his first credits in entertainment were as a writer and producer for The Larry Sanders Show, a series I hold in such high regard that the link included earlier in this sentence goes to the show’s Wiki page so you […]
I’ve never seen any of the Lord of the Rings movies. Come to think of it, I’ve never seen the Harry Potter flicks, either. At least I can excuse that by saying I read the books. But I really don’t get LOTR, which is odd, because I suppose I’m a […]
