Posted in Reviews on Jun 22nd, 2009
Any concerns that I had about the premier episode of True Blood have been alleviated with the second episode of season 2, Keep This Party Going. You have to excuse the clip show nature of the premier since it’s been a while since the finale and they really do have to get you back up [...]
Posted in Reviews on Jun 21st, 2009
I clearly recall when Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter came out. I was, of course, way too young to see it being only 8 years old at the time but my buddy in the neighborhood had an older brother whose mother took him to see it and he gave the two of us the [...]
Posted in Reviews on Jun 16th, 2009
I had a very quiet love affair with True Blood during its first season run. I kept things under wraps because I am fully aware of the harlequin romance trash that it is and didn’t want to sully my image as some kind of genre authority by admitting that the on again, off again romantic [...]
Posted in Reviews on Jun 6th, 2009
Andy Kaufman wasn’t exactly a comedian. It’s tough to put a label on what he did, exactly, because it borders on performance art. He gained momentum in the mid-70’s after appearing on a few episodes of Saturday Night Live doing the Foreign Guy routine. You may have seen this. He plays a record, lip syncs [...]
Posted in Reviews on May 29th, 2009
I have to admit. I had my doubts about Drag Me To Hell. Everything about the movie was suspicious to me. Every horror fan I knew thought I was crazy. They’d pound the point into my head that it’s a horror movie by Sam Raimi. The Sam Raimi. Evil Dead guy. No shit. It’s a [...]
Posted in Reviews on May 8th, 2009
When my wife and I got married, we honeymooned in England. It was an ordeal as soon as we got off the plane. Rental car agency wouldn’t take out credit card. We had to call home to have money transferred. The woman at the hotel gave me directions that took us out into the barren [...]
Posted in Reviews on May 5th, 2009
There is nothing good about airport shuttle rides. Suffused with the stink of people who’ve been stuck in the recycled atmosphere of an airplane for countless hours and full of weary travelers either freaking out because they’re late getting to the airport or getting back home, shuttles are barreling beasts of concentrated misery. And that’s [...]
Posted in Reviews on May 3rd, 2009
You know? It’s nice that Jason Statham has carved a decent living playing Jason Statham. Like Vin Diesel, he’s just another action star but a remarkably unique one in that he’s rough around the edges and among a high volume of godawful movies there is a cache of particularly decent flicks. There will always be [...]
Posted in Reviews on Apr 24th, 2009
Reviewing comedies is cake, man. Watch the movie. Ask yourself one question: Did it make me laugh? If the answer is yes, write a nice review about how it made you laugh. Writing a comedy movie, on the other hand is particularly difficult because gauging the public’s sense of humor is fucking impossible. Tastes shift [...]
Posted in Reviews on Apr 24th, 2009
It seems like every time I review one of these Turkish movies, every one of my readers with so much as a drop of Turkish blood in their lineage gets upset with me. It’s as though my opinion of these Turksploitation movies is a reflection on their culture as a whole. Thousands of years of [...]
Posted in Reviews on Apr 19th, 2009
A good western is hard to find these days. The genre died a quiet and particularly sad death in the 70’s resulting in studio policy shifting away from genres here in the United States and a saturation of really crappy spaghetti westerns in Italy. Eastwood was making bad ass cop pictures and Bronson found new [...]
I had my reservations about this book. I must admit that. The premise was very familiar. Author’s horrible stories become reality through magical force of will. But to cast one of my personal favorite authors, H.P. Lovecraft, in that position seemed particularly blasphemous. Lovecraft is a frequently misunderstood writer and it would be easy for [...]
Posted in Reviews on Apr 12th, 2009
Ah, snuff. One of those ultimate urban legends. You’ve heard the tales. A decadent rich gentleman who has tasted every perversion known to man is said to have commissioned a film wherein a real murder takes place in order to sample an extreme taboo. Or maybe you’ve heard the one where a murder is sexualized [...]
Posted in Reviews on Apr 12th, 2009
Listen, all the fresh talent these days are making short films. When you’re just out of film school, or striking out on your own, it’s often best to dive into the film community by circulating your short and generating word of mouth on the film festival circuit. You’re much more likely to wind up First [...]
Posted in Reviews on Apr 9th, 2009
Several years ago a friend of mine told me that I had to see the Todd Solondz comedy, Happiness, because it was the funniest movie he’d ever seen. My brother, Dave, and I rented it with our expectations tuned for something off beat. We’d both seen Welcome To The Dollhouse and knew what to expect [...]
Posted in Reviews on Apr 9th, 2009
I’m the overly analytical type. I’ll think about something fantastic to the point that it’s not much fun any more. Case in point, time travel. If you subscribe to certain theoretical physics, time travel is a theoretical possibility but once you start considering the real dynamics of time travel, where you are in space in [...]
Posted in Reviews on Apr 5th, 2009
I remember hearing all the hype back in 2003 when Image started publising The Walking Dead but people were shocked when I would tell them that I wasn’t really feeling it. I checked out the first issue and it immediately broke some rules that I thought were inexcusable. “But you like zombies!” They would shout. [...]
Posted in Reviews on Apr 4th, 2009
I have a feeling that I love The Dangerous Alphabet more than my daughter does but that’s okay with me. It’s an appropriately spooky and gholish way for a child to learn her ABC’s. Plus, the Neil Gaiman story is supremely sweet, but in the context of this review, The Dangerous Alphabet was my first [...]
Posted in Reviews on Apr 3rd, 2009
A new Tony Jaa movie is a real cause for celebration. Asian action has been in a slump for a real long time so when Tony Jaa came along, I practically shed delicious tears of joy. I hadn’t seen a martial arts movie like Ong Bak since the salad days of Jackie Chan. It’s light [...]
Posted in Reviews on Apr 3rd, 2009
Some couples must overcome insurmountable odds to be together, while others simply meet and fall in love. Others, though, must tame their grotesque genitalia and master their aberrant sexual desires before they can truly be together. Such is the case in “Bad Biology,” director Frank Henenlotter’s latest flick. It’s his first feature since 1992’s “Basket [...]
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