You need to see Hot Rod just so you can say you were on the Danny McBride bandwagon a year early. 2008 is going to be this guy’s year, as he has an incredible supporting role in Pineapple Express, almost stealing the whole movie from Seth Rogen and James Franco, and Paramount Vantage is going … Continue reading
The Bourne Ultimatum isn’t just the best action movie of the summer, it’s one of the best movies of the year. And it’s a movie that stands up and loudly disproves a lot of long-held assumptions that we all have: that an action film has to be stupid, that a third film in a trilogy … Continue reading
If The Bourne Ultimatum were to slow down, the viewer would suddenly realize how many coincidences and leaps of logic are required to keep the story moving forward and check right the fuck out – which is to say it’s no different than such classic hard-chargers as North by Northwest or Raiders of the Lost … Continue reading
This review has spoilers. Don’t read it if you have not read the book. Obviously this makes it useless as a review, but this is the seventh book in a massively popular series, and if you don’t know if you’re going to want to read it already, no review will sway you. Jerk. I didn’t … Continue reading
Since May, movie reviews across all media have been eager to exclaim finally, a summer movie that delivers! Now it’s my turn. While Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix isn’t the least artful film in the series, it is rather workmanlike in comparison to the films by Alfonso Cuaron and Mike Newell. And … Continue reading
The problem with making a movie out of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix; in the fifth installment of her seven part series, it seems that JK Rowling lost control of her own narrative. The book is stuffed with filler, and while it’s the … Continue reading
Perhaps the scariest thing about Joshua was the feeling I got at the end that I had just sat through some kind of weird gay panic movie. As the movie came to its conclusion I found myself more than a little gobsmacked by what writer and director George Ratliff had ended his movie with: the … Continue reading
With Transformers Michael Bay has come very close to giving us the great summer blockbuster of this decade; while it never fully comes together as the ass-kicking, brain-annihilating joy we wanted, it does manage to stand head and shoulders over the rest of the stunted crop of Summer 07. Transformers is probably the Rosetta Stone … Continue reading
***SPOILERS TO FOLLOW!!! TRANS-VIRGINS SHALL NOT PASS!!!*** Michael Bay’s giant fucking robots are here, and they are dead-set on destroying lots of property, so it’s fortunate that, in anticipation of the edifice-toppling third-act tilt, they’ve landed in Los Angeles, where great architecture is as disposable as a socialite’s virginity. The only drawback to Bay’s final … Continue reading
This fourth Die Hard installment opens with the Fox logo going dark. We’re meant to take the power outage simply as an indication of the plot shortly to unfold. In fact, we’re seeing the death of a series, at least as far as this episode is concerned. Live Free Or Die Hard is a kindred … Continue reading