The first weekend in November primes us for awards season with Denzel Washington. Tarantino keeps filling our plates with Kung-fu homages — even if he’s only responsible for its distribution. And, of course, there are vampires. More damned vampires. The Man With the Iron Fist: It’s hard to knock a rendition of the dying genre of […]
Good for Disney. Good for Lucas. Good for you?
The fifth film promises to dumb down the story and remind us of how awesome McClane was twenty years ago.
Oct29
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy — Imagine the Number of Disappointed Teenagers who Stumbled onto This Post
It’s hard to imagine that the title didn’t deter people from seeing the film. Just imagine talking to a significant other or a group of friends and suggesting that you should all “check out A Good Old Fashioned Orgy.” Perhaps you could strengthen your chances of being called a deviant if you inform you parents that you […]
Tyler Perry + Drag > Tyler Perry + Handgun
Two rival professors in Talmudic studies come to grips with their academic desires as well as the confrontation that looms within their own personal histories.
Burton and Depp are coming closer to eradicating the tent-pole film machine known as Disney, but they’re not there yet.
Even though it ends with a saccharine, fortuitous, foreseeable ending, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is an endearing and frightening journey for our cast of British retirees. The cash is accomplished and equates to a super group of out-of-retirement seventies rockers. (Think Mick Jagger, Janis Joplin, Grace Slick, and Robert Page on stage together.) Unfortunately, the allure […]
Oct06
Weekend Arena: 10/5
In for some Liam Neeson kicking Turkish ass? Check out Taken 2 — guaranteed to be more like Taken than the first Taken. In the mood for something morbid but funny? Frankenweenie opens this weekend — hopefully to defy the Burton / Disney dynamic that has disappointed as of late. Interested in Zac Efron and pee? You will need to deal with […]
Since the first time I viewed it as an eight year old (around 1989), The Bad News Bears was something of a pedestrian, underdog baseball tale – something that was reinforced by the crass, raunchier 2005 remake substituting Billy Bob Thornton for Walter Matthau as the antihero Morris Buttermaker. However, the original (and, I suppose its successor) […]