Off the Black (review)
Smart, bone-dry, but ultimately distant indie…
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)
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?
Night at the Museum (review)
A lack of appreciation for what the museum truly means to so many people is part of why ‘Night at the Museum’ ultimately disappoints.
say what? 2006: new ‘Eragon’ quote
New quote from ‘Eragon’ added…
Rocky Balboa movie review: flying high now
Forget everything you know about the joke that Rocky Balboa has become in the three decades since he made his screen debut, and just think back to that first film, to its raw power and surprising sensitivity and hard beauty.
Eragon (review)
The Force is strong with young Eragon, but he is not a dragonrider yet.
