Every now and then, contemporary popular culture yields a work that proves coming of age tales can be done without agonizing clichés and melodramatic urgencies; that maybe…just maybe, a “teen movie” doesn’t have to be so juvenile after all. Last year’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a shining example of a story brave…
The 85th Academy Awards ceremony aired last night and if you aren’t dead, you’re probably just about overloaded on Oscar mania, thanks to Twitter and Facebook alone. But still, shit’s worth mentioning, yo. Seth MacFarlane was way better than anticipated. Sure, there were racy, borderline-sexist jokes, but compared to his usually douchebag self (this coming…
Despite a semi-quiet release and meager 48% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, I must admit: last year’s Hit & Run was highly entertaining. Dax Shepard (yeah, yeah…I know) deserves some cred for wearing the hat of writer, co-director and star, and alongside his fellow cast members, baby mama Kristen Bell, Bradley Cooper and Tom Arnold,…
Before our viewing of the 1941 Best Picture winner How Green Was My Valley, my lady mentioned that it sounded like the title of a porno. Although the movie turned out to be your run-of-the-mill 1940’s film (bummer, man), I stopped to think about the many possibilities: In the movie’s bizarro porn version, would the…
To start out this here review of 1981’s British historical drama Chariots of Fire, I’d like to grade it first and discuss it second. Grade: F Ouch. And I don’t mean the grade. I mean the snoozefest about two athletes in the 1924 olympics. I can honestly say that I gained absolutely nothing from watching…
The Interweb has brought forth yet another trailer for Rob Zombie’s The Lords of Salem and I can’t quite make up my mind about it: On the surface, it looks like yet another Zombie film that I’ve already seen before. But that said, I do respect Zombie for his originality and brutality, and definitely think he’s put…
It’s challenging to try to avoid the number one most belabored line from the Die Hard series, but dammit, it just feels good to say so lets get it out of the way up front: Yippee–ki–yay, motherfucker! John McClane returns to theaters February 14 in the series’ fifth installment entitled: A Good Day to Die Hard,…
Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has been in theaters for a decade already, yet I still felt the need to comment on the nearly-three-hour-long film. Bilbo and his gang of dwarves have been getting a fair-share of flack since the movie’s release and some of that is justified, but some of it isn’t.…
“Wanted: Somebody to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. P.O. Box 91 Ocean View, WA 99393. You’ll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before.” Newspaper classifieds say the darndest things! In last year’s Indie-Comedy darling Safety…
A church, a broken window, some piano playing, singing, and two priests not getting along so much. That about explains the 1944 Best Picture winner Going My Way, starring Bing Crosby, and it was JUST AS EXCITING AS IT SOUNDS!!!! Crosby plays Father Charles “Chuck” O’Malley, a young up-and-comer (if priests can even be referred…