weekend box office: well, there’ll be no living with Ratner now
Mutants and global warming: it’s the box office battle of the summer!
Month: May 2006
‘Behind the Screen: The Princess Bride’: mostly dead is a little alive
The final death knell of my ‘Princess Bride’ book… but I’m working with Miracle Max on reviving it…
ironies and idiocies: the soldiering experience on film
Where are the movies about soldiers this Memorial Day weekend… or ANY Memorial Day weekend?
X-Men: The Last Stand (review)
It’s the least crappy flick yet from fauxteur Brett Ratner, which is actually quite an accomplishment from the man who gave us ‘Rush Hour,’ ‘Rush Hour 2,’ and the upcoming ‘Rush Hour 3.’ And we can thank the comic book gods that he didn’t cast Chris Tucker in it.
cinemastrology: cinemascopes for the week of 05.25-05.31
Either this is all a pile of bull dinky, or the secret forecaster writing the cinemascopes is having a really bad week…
An Inconvenient Truth documentary review: Category 5 storm warning
Forget everything you knew about the old, stiff, wonky Al Gore. The man is on fire. Oh, and so is our planet.
new on DVD: ‘Transamerica’ with a mysterious cover…
What the hell is up with the pretty blond on the ‘Transamerica’ DVD?
The Proposition (review)
The first zombie Western. Oh, and it’s Australian. So: the first Australian zombie Western.
weekend box office: the passion of the ‘Code’?
Prepare for yet another backlash against critics.
See No Evil (review)
It’s the unholy spawn of Saw, which was in turn only the semisacred spawn of Se7en. This is what the endless rounds of imitation and outright theft do to a supposedly creative industry: result in blurry, smudged third-generation photocopies that can’t even distinguish themselves through attempts at pornographic excess. A gang of thoroughly unlikable idiots … more…
