Blu-ray Highlights for 8/9/11 – Some Tasty Waves, a Cool Bu
Stoners may, as a rule, be a pretty unambitious lot. For some reason, however, they seem to rule the Blu-ray release schedule this week. Party on!
One from the Vault: ‘Things to Do in Denver When You’
In the wake of ‘Pulp Fiction’ comes this 1995 pseudo-noir gangster flick directed by Gary Felder (‘Kiss the Girls’, ‘Runaway Jury’ and the occasional TV gig). The script was written by Scott Ros...
The Trailer Park: Do I Look Funny to You?
The good, the bad and the downright vomit-inducing ugly – that’s what we get when we take a quick peek at the latest upcoming comedies. From the ‘Hangover’ wannabes and the genre-benders to what Adam Sandler cons...
WTF News Part 2 – Brett Ratner to Produce Oscars?!?!
Well, it’s finally happened. The vaunted Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – long accused of rewarding mediocrity – has officially given up any pretense of being a standard of quality in the film community. The Aca...
Weekend Box Office: Those Damn Dirty Apes Rise to the Number One
Despite the franchise having been absent from the big screen since Tim Burton’s poorly-reviewed ‘Planet of the Apes‘ reboot more than a decade ago, the 43-year-old movie series returned to the big screen with a s...
WTF Is Steven Soderbergh Up To?
In what must be one of the strangest announcements to come out of Hollywood in some time, it was revealed on Friday that Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Soderbergh will be joining the production of ‘The Hunger Games’, t...
Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Movie Dialogue
We’ve chosen a simple topic for this week’s Roundtable, but it should be a fun one. Let’s rattle off some of our all-time favorite pieces of movie dialogue. There’s so much to choose from!
Weekend Movies: Summer’s Over, Bring Out the Duds
I usually consider July as the last month of summer blockbusters. While some August films wear the mask of the blockbuster, they almost never live up to or compare with the grandeur of May, June and July’s big releases. This...
‘Alphas’ 1.04 Recap: “We Are Better, and That F
After last week’s shockingly intense episode, I have to admit that I expected ‘Alphas’ to ease off this week and give us something lighter, perhaps a routine case-of-the-week with fairly low stakes for the charac...
Now Playing: Prequel Syndrome Strikes ‘Rise of the… A
Every prequel ever made has one gigantic obstacle to overcome: How do you make a story interesting when the outcome is already known? How is ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ going to keep us locked in suspense when we ...
Now Playing: This Screenplay Needs a ‘Change-Up’ of I
Too many times we’ve seen the old switcharoo take place in movies. Someone switches bodies with someone else, or perhaps he/she simply gets bigger, thinking that life would be better that way, only to find out that it’...
‘True Blood’ 4.06 Recap: “Fear Only Sweetens th
Perhaps the most disappointing thing about this season of ‘True Blood’ is that, especially in episodes like this week’s, reviewing a new episode isn’t really a matter of liking or disliking it. The episode ...