The moment when it becomes completely clear that the universe surrounding the tortuous week-long Wimbledon showdown between tennis players Aaron Williams (Andy Samberg) and Charles Poole (Kit Harington) is every bit as ridiculous as the tennis match itself is during a part in which Williams stands on trial in a Swedish court and the court…
Previous Installments Believe it or not, there are times when reviewing movies made ten years ago based on the works of the most-reviewed writer in history, for free, for a limited readership is not the most rewarding thing I’ve ever done with my life. Other times, it means I get to watch a movie starring…
Baddie: Cancer! Lesson: People are friends, not science experiments. Remember that time I said I was going to review shark movies all month? Yeah, well, I lied, because the new Tarsem Singh movie came out and my loyalties split. Repeat readers know that my favorite movie of all time is The Fall, a Singh movie. His other endeavors…
Sherlock Holmes is one of the most popular characters in all of fiction. IMDb credits him with 301 screen appearances, which puts him ahead of other prominent British figures like King Arthur, Frankenstein’s Monster, and Robin Hood, but still over 200 appearances behind Dracula. When a character reaches such a high level of familiarity in…
Baddie: Cancer! Lesson: Sharks are friends, not science experiments. It’s the most wonderful timeeeee of the year. AKA Shark Week, Discovery Channel’s increasingly-full-of-crap week about sharks. What started as a week of education and interesting info has become somewhat of a low-budget schlock fest with some shark facts thrown in. I’m hoping we don’t have to suffer…
By the time a dismayed Agent Susan Cooper walks out of a hotel room dressed in a disguise that can only be accurately described as “tragically cat lady”– her second such disguise– it becomes abundantly clear that Spy is not primarily a parody of spy movies. Well, okay, it is. There are plenty of jokes to be had…
When I first heard that Ryan Gosling was writing and directing (but not appearing in) his own feature-length film, I got pretty intrigued. When I saw the weird as hell trailer, I got reasonably excited. It seemed that this chiseled Canadian muse took a stylistic page from his greatest patron: the inconsistently attractive Danish oddball…
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