Subtle Bluntness

I saw and reviewed Date Night the other night for Den of Geek, and I have to say something about Tina Fey.  While I go back and forth on just how funny I think she is, there’s one thing about her I can’t deny.  She’s adorable.  With glasses or without (but definitely with) her glasses, [...]

It’s hard to review a comedy.  I mean, I can eyeball a horror movie or a sci-fi thriller or an action flick and say, “Yes, this is good,” or “No, this isn’t good,” pretty easily, even if it’s not my particular taste.  There’s nothing tougher to review than a comedy.  What I find funny, you [...]

Well, I got a chance to go check out Repo Men, the latest in a long line of sci-fi action thrillers with a better concept than execution.  I mean, the idea of a future where artificial organs can be repossessed when you don’t pay your bills isn’t a far-out concept.  We’re pretty close to that [...]

After having sat on the review for an entire week, today is the release date for my Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls review.  It’s about time March 3 got here, because I’ve been going nuts talking the book up in private but without any recourse to spew my review upon the [...]

So I saw Cop Out, and I’m in the minority since I actually enjoyed the movie.  For me, it works as a direct homage to those 80′s buddy cop movies, before they got all worn out by overuse.  Most people apparently didn’t dig it, but I liked it and apparently the audience did too, since [...]

So, I’ve resigned myself to the fact that there’s going to be a big-screen World of Warcraft movie.  There’s no sense fighting it.  It’s not in developmental hell, Sam Raimi is producing it as we speak, and Robert “Saving Private Ryan” Rodat is hard at work on the script.  Just accept it; this thing is [...]

So, Pierre Morel is really making a play to break out of Luc Besson’s shadow, at least in terms of directorial skill.  I mean, he’s still working in Camp Besson, but he’s at least in charge of the productions, rather than just the cinematographer.  District B13 was awesome, Taken was way awesome, and the verdict [...]

I reviewed Legion over at Den of Geek.  Look on these works, ye Paul Bettany fans, and despair.  Also, there’s Charles S. Dutton and Dennis Quaid, so despair a little extra for those two. Yes, I know I just mixed Shakespeare’s Hamlet with Shelley’s Ozymandias.  I did that in much the same way Legion mixes [...]

When I was at the coffee shop the other day, I was talking about movies.  (What, me?  Talk about movies?  Never!)  I forget how I got on this subject, but eventually it all came around to The Book of Eli.  I mentioned that I reviewed it for Den of Geek and mentioned how, five years [...]

There’s just something about a list that makes people virulent.  Take, for example, my list of 10 big films to watch out for in 2010.  On the surface, if you actually READ the entries, you’ll see that these aren’t all guaranteed to be good.  However, they *might* be good and even if they’re not, they [...]