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The Outsider Review: Don’t Bring This One In

Deirdre Crimmins — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 12:00:18 +0000

The Western genre is far from dead, but The Outsider might make you wish it were. The caricatures of characters, abysmal treatment of women, and nearly inscrutable plot make the movie an experience to be tolerated rather than celebrated. The story is your typical revenge riff at first. Jing Phang (Jon Foo) has a loving...

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‘The Flash’ 4.17 Recap: “Comedy Comes in Threes, Man”

Josh Zyber — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 12:00:23 +0000

I’m aware that I’ve complained a fair amount about ‘The Flash’ being too mopey and brooding this season in comparison to the lighthearted fun of the early seasons, but this week’s Kevin Smith-directed episode tries too hard to overcompensate and doesn’t succeed nearly enough. Smith even cameos on-camera with friend Jason Mewes as their Jay...

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‘Survivors Guide to Prison’ Review: Painful Jailhouse Confessions

Philip Brown — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:00:57 +0000

Prison isn’t a great place. We know this. Prison is also a business, and that business is booming, so it’s not as if things are going to change. Director Matthew Cooke’s sensationalistic and celebrity-filled (starring Danny Trejo!) new documentary attempts to unpack everything that’s wrong with the U.S. penal system. He uses many manipulative techniques...

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‘The Flash’ 4.04 Recap: “I Smell a Mystery”

Josh Zyber — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 12:00:06 +0000

Is ‘The Flash’ doing a crossover with the ‘Machete’ franchise now? That’d be a stretch… This week’s episode is split between two storylines. In the first, Cisco’s relationship with Gypsy is threatened when her dad, a breach cop rather uncreatively named “Breacher” (played by Danny Trejo), visits Earth-1 looking for his daughter and does not...

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‘Preggoland’ Review: Dark Juno

Philip Brown — Fri, 01 May 2015 15:00:52 +0000

It’s hard for a little indie comedy to get noticed, so one of the ways to drum up interest is with a twisted premise. ‘Preggoland’ shoots specifically for that particular mode of grabbing your attention with a cynical concept rooted in bad behavior, and then manages to commit with enough melancholic comedic charm to be...

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‘Muppets Most Wanted’ Review: An Almost Equal Sequel

Philip Brown — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:00:32 +0000

The Muppets had fallen on hard times by the time Disney picked them up and hired Jason Segel and Nick Stoller (based primarily on a single joke in ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’) to revive their felty ways. Yet, thanks to assigning folks who genuinely loved the source material, the Muppets’ charming comeback vehicle proved to be...

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Now Playing: ‘Machete’ Slays Me

Bryan Kluger — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 13:00:49 +0000

“Machete don’t tweet” is just one of the hilarious lines uttered by Danny Trejo’s iconic character, Machete Cortez, in this new fun-as-hell sequel from Robert Rodriguez. If you pay attention, you might notice that Rodriguez has actually made a ‘Star Wars’ film with Machete in it this time around, complete with machete lightsabers, versions of...

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Blu-ray Highlights of Mars – June 5th, 2012

Josh Zyber — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:00:57 +0000

Well, look at that. Hey, Disney, you see how easy it is to include the words “of Mars” in a title? That’s not very difficult at all, just seven little characters (including the space) that might help your potential audience to have a vague idea of what your content is about. I bet that’s a...

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Netflix Watch: A Crazed Director & Gun-Toting Poolboys

M. Enois Duarte — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:00:32 +0000

This week, we dig a couple of movies out of the Netflix stream that try to offend our good taste and our delicate sensibilities. Take your pick and have a few laughs this weekend. ‘The People vs. George Lucas’ Trying to do what ‘Trekkies’ did for ‘Star Trek’ fandom, ‘The People vs. George Lucas’ brings...

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Weekend Movies: The Three Genre Flicks

Luke Hickman — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:00:38 +0000

Despite three new movies hitting the big screen this weekend, I don’t know if any of them can dethrone ‘The Hunger Games’. I guess we’ll see. The widest opener of this weekend is the Farrelly brothers’ ‘The Three Stooges‘, the movie that studios have been trying to make for ages now. This rendition brings the...

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‘Modern Family’ 2.10 Recap: “Oasis for Men?”

Dick Ward — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:00:45 +0000

‘Modern Family’ is back for one last episode before the holidays. While it’s not bad, it definitely comes off as a way to wrap things up for the next month. A school dance is the focus of this episode, aptly named ‘Dance Dance Revelation’. Luke and Manny are both going, while Claire and Gloria are...

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Weekend Movies: Mexico vs. Europe (And Drew Barrymore’s in There Someplace)

Drew Taylor — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:00:16 +0000

This weekend marks the end of summer and the end of the lucrative summer movie-going season, which we can all admit was, more or less, pants. If this weekend’s offerings are any indication, then the fall could be just as lousy. Granted, I haven’t seen two of the three big movies, but this is more...

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