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3:10 to Yuma Christian Bale and Russell Crowe saddle up in the Old West. Ironic, ain’t it, that we’re reduced to importing all-American Marlboro Men from Wales and New Zealand? All overseas outsouring should be this rugged and manly. (my review is here) Shoot ’Em Up They’re not kidding with that title. Seriously: cartoonish gunplay … more…
“Arnold Furious” at 411.mania.com, who says — drum roll, please: I’d like to choke that bitch MaryAnn Johanson for giving It’s a Wonderful Life the thumbs down. I’m gonna keep highlighting the particular violent vehemence directed toward a woman with an opinion as I come across examples directed toward me, because I think it’s important … more…
This is inventive and exciting, a grip-the-armrests, hold-your-breath reinvigorating of the Western movie…
A gloriously deranged orgy of Bugs Bunny-style action and nonstop gunplay.
See it: • The Astronaut Farmer [buy it]. From my review: To say that they don’t make movies like this anymore — splendidly, quietly angry in a folksy, old-fashioned kind of way — is to prove its point, that we seem to have lost something in the American spirit in our era of overlording corporatism … more…
I loved Jon Krakauer’s nonfiction book Into the Wild, about a privileged young American man who was precisely the wrong combination of book-smart and real-world-naive who pulled a Thoreau and withdrew from the modern world in remote mountain Alaska. Now, Sean Penn has made Into the Wild, the movie [opens wide September 21], starring the … more…
Gotta love the MySpace generation. A 21-year-old male who goes by the unlikely nom de MySpace of “thedeadlyrhythm” doesn’t like my review of the new Kevin Bacon revenge wet dream Death Sentence. Thedeadlyrhythm won’t say what’s wrong with it. Apparently, it’s just bad. He writes: Apologies to my friends for not going with them today … more…
I’m hardly surprised: “The Girl in the Fireplace,” from last season’s Doctor Who, won the Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) at Worldcon in Japan last night. It was up against two other Whos: “Army of Ghosts/Doomsday” and “School Reunion” (as well as episodes of something called Battlestar Galactica and some other series, Stargate … more…
Kevin Bacon’s got one of each — scythe and machete — in his garage in *Death Sentence.* He’s a white-shirt-wearing, window-office-occupying corporate cog at an insurance company. Surely the biggest danger he is in would be from, you know, paper cuts on the risk-analysis reports he handles on a daily basis. Right? How did he know to have such deadly tools at the ready?
Balls of Fury Remember that bit in Forrest Gump where he plays a lot of ping pong? Someone saw that while stoned and thought it was waaaay more hilarious than it actually was. Then he got more stoned and wrote this. (now playing; my review is here) Death Sentence The director of Saw forces Kevin … more…
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