movie-ku #5
Grayhairs, chattering Not so much of a bargain Bargain matinees
opening wide today: ‘Resident Evil: Extinction,’ ‘Good Luck Chuck,’ ‘Sydney White,’ ‘Eastern Promises’
Resident Evil: Extinction Zombies want to eat your brain. Or something. And Milla Jovovich will kill them for you. But they don’t stay dead: they keep coming back in endless sequels. Someone kill me, please. (Not screened for critics, but I’m seeing this on Friday afternoon; if you don’t hear from me, call out the … more…
movie-ku #4
Nighttime at the ’plex Alive with neon-lit crowds Anticipating…
Into the Wild (review)
If a man walks into the woods as a, you know, protest against the rampant materialism and general sickness of society at large, and no one is there to hear him scream his rage, does he make a sound?
new on DVD: ‘Death Proof,’ ‘Lucky You,’ ‘Severance,’ ‘Zoo,’ ‘We Are Marshall,’ more
See it: • Death Proof: Extended and Unrated [buy it]. From my review: [T]he last 40 minutes or so of Death feature some amazing stuntwork and stunt driving, seat-of-the-pants filmmaking that is as fresh and organic as anything Roger Corman would have done, and like we hardly ever see at the movies these days. This … more…
movie-ku #3
Piles of DVDs Slide across the slip’ry floor Movies at my feet
‘Heroes’ gets some dull new company on Mondays with ‘Chuck’ and ‘Journeyman’
Next week is the big week, or so the TV networks would like us to believe: a ton of new shows will be debuting, and a ton returning shows will be, well, returning. It feels kinda anticlimactic to me — there’s been a lot of great stuff on the cable nets this summer (Doctor Who, … more…
Jekyll (review)
Half deeply disturbing and ooky, half goofy and cheesy in the most deliciously pulpy way, this is TV of a caliber that we rarely get to enjoy on American television…
movie-ku #2
Crisp autumn blows in Bringing high-minded fil-um The popcorn still hot
is Warner Bros. spearing ‘10,000 B.C.’ months before it opens?
If we’ve just wrapped up the summer season of dumb movies, it must be time to start talking about the next one. And sure enough, the spies at Ain’t It Cool News have been sneaking into test screenings of next spring’s bit of nonsense from Roland Emmerich, 10,000 B.C., scheduled to open in March. And … more…
