Continuing my long, proud tradition of reviewing movies weeks after their release date, I wanted to say a few words about No Strings Attached, which I caught over the weekend. (Before we proceed, no, I didn’t spontaneously grow a pair of meat drapes and up and go to this film […]
The other day I was going through Sports Illustrated’s Greatest American Boxing Movies (ignoring each film made before 1950 because the only people who watch those are homosexuals and women that don’t get laid) when, at #8, I came upon a title so fantastic that I knew right then and […]
I’m about to tell a tale that is going to make me sound incredibly old. A tale of “video cassettes” and entire storefronts dedicated to allowing you to rent them. The tale of Bad Lieutenant. You see, in my pre-teen years, there was a now-defunct video rental store by the […]
Yesterday, I caught a 4 pm showing of Hereafter (because that’s what barely-employed DJs do during the work day) and I want to tell you that, if you have any taste in movies whatsoever, you should go and check it out. It’s an amazing achievement-a film that deals with the […]
Clan Papageorgiou has a very specific ritual for the birthday of its matriarch: Dinner at The Cheesecake Factory followed by a trip to the movies for a comedy and then cake and ice cream back at Papageorgiou Estates (that sounds so much nicer than “single-floor gerbil cage that I grew […]
This was supposed to be a review of Predators. Ever since the co-host of Papa’s Basement, Rachel Oehring, issued a scathing review of that film on my radio show last week, I had been champing at the bit to see it, love it and wave my appreciation of it in […]
I’m going to make this one short and sweet, a courtesy this piece of cinematic shit didn’t see fit to extend to its audience. Let me state, unequivocally, that I love the first two Terminator films. I can quote them backwards and forwards, hum a pitch-perfect rendition of the theme […]