Subtle Bluntness

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

So, I got to see The Twilight Saga: New Moon on Sunday, after having waited for it a good chunk of Saturday.  As you can see by its $140 million dollar opening weekend, it was very popular.  Frightening popular, given the unsubtle message the movie has for teenage girls of all ages.  Here’s my full [...]

If there’s one thing I learned from the response to my review of The Fourth Kind, it’s that people love the phrase “The Fourth Kind is cat poop and onions.”  I thought I had included something about chocolate and peanut butter and two great tastes, but I guess I didn’t.  Or I did and my [...]

So did you guys catch the first episode of the new V series last night?  I did, and it was EPIC.  When I say it’s the most exciting show premier I’ve seen since Deadwood, I am NOT kidding. They managed to cover the base of the original series, but strip away a lot of the [...]

Hey, did you know that sometimes I watch movies?  Like, for example, Astro Boy.  Sometimes I even write about movies I’ve already talked about, like that time I talked about how the Saw franchise is on its way out the door and how the torture porn genre is soooo 2006. But mostly it’s videos, because [...]

Did you see Saw?  I saw Saw.  I also saw Saws II and III.  Then I realized that the series would never be more than mediocre and dropped out for Saws IV and V. Then, the other night, I saw Saw VI and realized the series had been taken over by the two guys that [...]