Since I didn’t make it to the movies this week, I thought I’d fall back on the time-honored tradition of finding the good stuff on Netflix. Melancholia got a fair amount of critical acclaim when it came out, and then praise from people in my Film Theory class. Since most of what I’d heard made…
Well, it’s December, a.k.a. Christmas month. Are we doing an Octoberween kind of deal for December? Christembermas? I dunno, nobody tells me nothin’. I was totally going to get seasonal, too, but maybe I’ll put that off a while and just review a mediocre movie that came out eleven years ago. Gosford Park (2001) The…
Some lessons don’t need to be learned, they are just already known. Canvas, a bad idea sprinkled with a little Gary Busey charm and some classic early-90’s movie music (long guitar chords with loud drum thumps) is a lesson that isn’t worth learning, unless you happen to be a martyr. That lesson is that art…
Baddie – Sharks! Lesson – Sharks! In the interest of full disclosure, I was baking an apple pie while I watched this movie. Alright, so, I saw “Sand Sharks” pop up in my recommended movies and I was all like, “SCORE.” It’s also nice to see that Brooke Hogan is still doing B-movies. I haven’t seen her…
It turns out that having a sinus infection is worse than you for drinking, so I slept all last week and Thirsty Thursday passed me by. In return, I present to you a seemingly unrelated double review: Harold and Maude (1971) and Charlie Bartlett (2007). “Now, what the hell could these two movies have in common,” asks the movie-viewer…
Well, I promised you two reviews today, and I am totally delivering. Check it, single ladies and potential employers: I’m reliable. Wreck-It Ralph (2012): The Plot: Wreck-It Ralph (John C. Reilly) is the Bad Guy in an arcade video game. His job is to wreck a fancy apartment building so that endlessly-chipper Fix-It Felix (Jack…
I took last week off, so you get two (2!) reviews today. While you were all gorging yourselves on turkey, I was looking deep into the heart and soul of America. Pay attention, supervillains, because I discovered two things that this country really, really loves: Abraham Lincoln and old, crappy video games (which you will…
