As you enjoy fireworks and booze and the rhythmic slap-slap of bellies in cabanas, allow us to do our part to bring the slightly rudderless ship known as The Black Pearl into port a little early. You saw Devin’s glowing review, and in the recent spirit of things here’s our contrasting tag team variant … Continue reading
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl had the absurdity of its very premise going for it: how could a movie based on an amusement park ride, of all the creatively bankrupt things, turn out to be good? But it was – the film was a blast from beginning to end, it gave … Continue reading
Welcome to the tag team review of one of the most anticipated films in the lifetime of someone who hasn’t been alive for very long. Superman Returns is one of the big ones. One of the A-List comic book franchises. Bigger than anything but perhaps Batman and Spidey. lot of false starts, big names, and … Continue reading
I was so excited to write my review of Wassup Rockers because I was going to be the guy who went on and on about how similar this movie is to The Warriors, which seems to be a film that haunts me in an almost Freudian way. Imagine my disappointment when I read an interview … Continue reading
Maybe it’s because I’ve been waist deep in Warner Bros’ John Wayne/John Ford box set the last two weeks, but The Hidden Blade, the new film from Twilight Samurai director Yoji Yamada, really reminded me of one of Ford’s more elegiac Westerns. Hidden Blade is set at the twilight of the age of samurai, as … Continue reading
I didn’t just not like Click, the new movie where Adam Sandler plays a Jim Carrey role; the movie actually made me mad. Not because it’s not funny – I expected that. And not because it’s endlessly mean-spirited – every Adam Sandler film is like that. What made me mad was that the central conceit … Continue reading
“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” That line from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance really applies to The Outsider, Nick Jarecki’s examination of cinematic iconoclast James Toback, a man whose filmmaking is intensely personal and obsessive and whose life is incredibly over the top and mythologized. Toback’s work is very much on … Continue reading
Edward Lee’s The Pig & The HousePublished by Necro Publications Ed Lee’s name is almost always spoken of in hushed tones as if it’s a touchy subject. His books are legendary for the depths they sink to- you can guarantee that any fan of his work has a sick, sick sense of humor- and a … Continue reading
I knew something was very wrong when Larry the Cable Guy’s Mater was my favorite character in Pixar’s latest film, Cars. In many ways Mater is the character that kept me involved in the story, which takes almost two hours to finally reach its conclusion, and which falters so badly in the second act that … Continue reading
In the original 1976 The Omen, Father Brennan meets Robert Thorn in a park to deliver to him a message about the infernal heritage of his son, Damien. When the two split up, Brennan is left alone and the wind rises. Soon the trees are shaking as the wind howls, and lightning bolts are spitting … Continue reading