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 […]
The legacy of James Bond is a mixed bag for me. Some of my first memories are my dad ogling Bond girl jugs as we watched 007 marathons on TBS together. Later, as an adult, I viewed a few Bond movies via Netflix and realized that, other than the Sean […]
The original Taken was a surprise hit, a film whose appeal is not easy to explain. Maybe it was Liam Neeson kicking ass even though he’s old enough to tell historians what the Gettysburg Address sounded like firsthand. Maybe it’s women loving a movie where daddy saves their chastity from […]