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There's a moment about halfway into Rush Hour 3 that sums it up nicely. Having evaded goons in the Parisian sewer system, Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan) and James Carter (Chris Tucker) arrive at their fancy hotel stinking of shit. In the elevator, reeking and… Continue reading →
Publisher: William MorrowPages: 280Buy from Amazon! Author Website Why the hell didn’t we get A-Game Ellis with his prose debut? This is just barely his B-Game. Warren Ellis is one of my favorite writers, and Transmetropolitian, flaws and all, is one of my… Continue reading →
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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… Continue reading →