Reviews
New to Me: Oldboy
(“New To Me” is a column wherein your intrepid reviewer watches the classics — both mainstream and cult — in an effort to fill in the holes in his pop ...
Chew On This: Pontypool
(“Chew on This” is Bill Coffin’s column on horror cinema, analyzing the some of best movies the genre has to offer, new and old.) Here’s the thing: I love zombie movies. ...
Michael Moore’s Capitalism: The Revolution Will Not Be … Monetized?
[Editor's note: Michael Moore's latest documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, comes out on DVD today. Tim Adkins wrote a great essay/review about it a while back and we figured today ...
Brooklyn’s Finest — Clearly False Advertising
In Brooklyn’s Finest, Anthony Fuqua applies his wonky, gritty vision of police-realism to a triumvirate of NYPD officers whose fates will eventually intermingle prior to the unnecessarily frozen and symbolism-riddled ...
New to Me: Gone with the Wind
(“New To Me” is a column wherein your intrepid reviewer watches the classics — both mainstream and cult — in an effort to fill in the holes in his pop ...
The Book of Eli — Thank God I’m an Agnostic
The power of disasters and the potential of an apocalypse fascinate movie goers, usually during times of strife or near the end of a decade. In the eighties, forty-six movies ...
Shutter Island — This Week’s “blaaaagh”
Logic dictates that when a movie slated for release in October is pushed back until February of the next year, the film probably has some major flaws that would pull ...
Fish Tank — A Gritty Education
Andrea Arnold masterfully handles Fish Tank, a film of gritty British realism that captivates and depresses, but does not wear itself out trying to rend your heartstrings. The soundtrack is ...
Terrible Movie Marathon 2010
As has been known to happen, I drank way too much last Friday and was thus incapable — or at least unwilling — to do anything other than stare at ...
The Wolfman – Like Passing a Kidney Stone on Christmas Morning
In a previous post, I determined that The Happening edged Taking Lives as the worst movie that I had seen in the first decade of this millennium, and moving forward, ...
