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At one point in the new big-budget romantic comedy Knight And Day starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, one of the two leads turns to the other and, by way of reassurance, claims, "I'm pretty good at what I do." It's a line of dialogue that fits the story at… Continue reading
You'll probably make fun of me for admitting it, but I'm a big Adam Sandler fan. Doesn't bother me if my opinions are judged differently because of it. I like what I like. I have my reasons. I mentioned a bunch of them here, a couple years ago. I'll mention… Continue reading
The patchwork of entertainment news we get clobbered by most days is an eerie reminder of how little has changed since Bill Hicks prowled comedy stages, serving as a lonely voice of sanity out amongst the wilderness of institutionalized idiocy. I've written… Continue reading
How many movies are there in the world? How many movies have been made since the invention of cinema, way back in those last years of the nineteenth century? These questions are just about impossible to answer, so how about this one: How many movies can one… Continue reading
City Island is a small movie about real people. Imagine that! No explosions, no talking animals, no drag queens talking about shopping, no British kids flying around on broomsticks, no overpaid Scientologists, and as far as I could tell, no computer… Continue reading
The Hit is a British gangster film from 1984, an early effort from Stephen Frears (The Grifters, Dirty Pretty Things) who has a diverse filmmaking resume but is arguably at his best with unsparing crime movies like this one. And the British gangster film… Continue reading
It's about time. I mean, really. We are all of us trapped in a weird moment right now, a cultural moment that isn't remotely friendly to the red-blooded American male. We're being battered by Sex And The City and Twilight, by American Idol and Glee, by Lady… Continue reading
First of all, "Spaghetti" is in quotes up there because Sergio Leone reportedly never liked the term "Spaghetti Westerns." I may have to use the term because that's how the genre is commonly known, but if Sergio didn't dig the nomenclature then I don't… Continue reading
Splice is gross but refreshing. Put that on a poster, Warner Brothers! It's refreshing because it's a movie that makes you think. It grabs you by the collar and pulls you uncomfortably close and demands that you use your damn brain. It's actually comical that… Continue reading
So there's this island, right? Hey wait – where you going? Come back! It's not what you think. Anyway, Survival Of The Dead takes place mostly on an island, where the dead are coming back to life and there are a couple different factions warring over how to… Continue reading
Okay, so obviously it was a bad idea. Don't get me wrong – after giving it a chance, I'm glad they gave it a whirl. But a bomb is a bomb is a bomb, and that's not a MacGruber in-joke either. People just plain didn't want to see a movie based on a SNL …… Continue reading
Spoiler Warning: This whole article is gonna be spoilers. Y'all been warned! You might think this is kind of sad, but aside from the pilot and the finale and maybe a couple of other exceptions, I've always watched Lost alone. There are 121 episodes in total,… Continue reading
