Scream 2 , OJ Simpson, Casey Anthony and How Media Has Become Judge, Jury and Executioner
Wes Craven’s Scream franchise has long been thought of as a series of films that parody their traditional predecessors. The first (1996) examines the various…
Beyond The Screen
Jim Carrey’s Transition to Political Movies
Somewhere this concept made sense: “A man inherits six penguins which suddenly make him less of a megalomaniac and more of an understanding, compassionate, philanthropic human being.”…
Villains, Villains Everywhere, but Not a Plot in Sight
Remember when the troika of Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman), Mr. Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger), and Bane (Jeep Swenson) led their villainous charge across the screen in…
Those Who Have Never Watched Network Are Destined to Buy Charlie Sheen Tickets
As CBS has officially replaced the walking still that is Charlie Sheen with Ashton Kutcher on their hit series Two and a Half Men, it…
Deep and Pretentious Thoughts on the Nature of Mobbs
(image via AllMoviePhoto.com) On the weekend that Osama bin Laden was killed by US Navy Seal Team Six, Fast Five roared into American movie theatres…
A Few Thoughts on What Scream 4 Is Really About
Fans are fans. They will do what fans do. They will gush. (Sometimes they will grumble.) Critics are critics. They will do what critics do….
Wonder Boys and How Our Sorta-Celebrity Moments that Define Us
Pardon the superlative, but one of the most overlooked movies of the past ten years has to be Wonder Boys, a film directed by Curtis…
Quite the Summer Approaches: Superheroes, Steroids and Asterisks!
While this spring is riddled with the resonance of winter, summer can always be looked forward to, where eventually the threats of storm warnings and…
What’s in a Name?
Recent movie titles have often pared out any mystery and cut straight to the point. Perhaps this is an additional sign of our shortening attention…
Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son – Imitation Might be the Sincerest Form of Cliche
It seems a bit futile to discuss a Martin Lawrence film in the Gladiators forum because logically, it will just be relegated to a worm…