Year: 2006

Jet Li’s Fearless (review)

To see Jet Li battle a boxer, a swordsman, a wrestler, and other non-martial-arts warriors is kinda like that age-old theoretical geeks’ game come to life: Who would win if Superman fought Mighty Mouse?

Scumrock (review)

Three cheers for genuinely independent film that’s charmingly shabby and takes chances despite severe budget limitations and pokes a bit of fun at itself. But unless honest intentions and street cred are enough for you, give this one a pass, because it doesn’t quite pay off in the end.

Mr. Fix It (review)

Every bad cliché of date movies is put to awful use…

Gene Simmons Family Jewels: The Complete Season 1 (review)

Why Gene Simmons, still going strong as the frontman for KISS lo these many years, and his not-wife, soft-core queen Shannon Tweed — they’ve been not-married for 23 years — would let TV cameras into their home to spy on their lives is a question that must be asked…

BUMPED UP: last chance to become a micropatron… forever

BUMPED UP. Just want to keep this in front of everyone… This is it: this is your last chance to get in on micropatrony goodness forever. I’m going to be closing the ranks of micropatrons forever as of 11:59PM Eastern December 31, 2006. I’m NOT ending the benefits and giveaways to micropatrons — those will … more…

We Are Marshall (review)

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Calling anything “indescribable” is like throwing down a gauntlet that Hollywood can’t help but pick up: of course real people’s real pain can be turned, yet again, into trite, glossy cinematic junk food. How could we possibly doubt this?