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No matter how bad things got, I always had Roger and the game. The year is 1972, and teenage baseball nut Mickey (Trevor Morgan: Off the Black) decides to drive from Los Angeles to Pittsburgh to see Pirate superstar Roberto Clemente make his legendary 3000th hit. Just for fun, he’ll take along his little brother, … more…
He’ll be gone in four years! / And then we’ll have to get ready for Jeb! Ah, finally, a romantic comedy for those of us who live in, as we crazy leftwing nutjobs like to say, the reality-based community. After the 2004 election, despondent Kerry campaign worker John (Breckin Meyer: Garfield: A Tail of Two … more…
I don’t get why people eat in Olive Garden in places like Iowa. I really don’t get why people eat in Olive Garden in the middle of the greatest restaurant city in the world. It deeply shames me that there are at least two of these monstrosities in Manhattan.
Becomes, as all the best sendups do, a thorough tweaking of the genre as well as an excellent example of the same.
An ultralow-budget horror with a style and flavor all its own, driven by character and reveling in its utter lack of coin as, it seems, the freedom and permission it needed to be clever and original.
There are lots of crimes a movie can commit — being boring, being nonsensical, being implausible, being irrelevant — but it’s the rare movie that can commit all of them in the space of 90 minutes.
The foul, bloodthirsty beast is reigning over the island… You know those wacky European films in which people scream a lot and hit one another with cheeses and dried sausages all in an expression of deep love? This is one of those movies. The disgraced emperor of the title is almost mere background to this … more…
I’m off to a couple of press screenings this morning at the Tribeca Film Festival, but when I get back early this afternoon, I’m gonna tell ya exactly how awful Nicolas Cage’s new movie Next is. Stay tuned… (Consider this an open thread, if you like, for all the terrible movies opening today.)
Yesterday while I was toodling around between press screenings at the Tribeca Film Festival, I ran across this live promotion for the new flick The Condemned, opening today. At first glance I freaked — Why is there a chain gang on the streets of Manhattan?! — but then I realized that the chains were plastic … more…
Are you saying I have a daughter? How’d that happen? / It’s called sex, Dad. Family films tend to suffer from an overabundance of sentimental sap, but this delightful drama about a father and a daughter rediscovering each other avoids that fate without giving up any of its sweet gentleness. The signs don’t look good … more…
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