Live From New York!, It’s (A Documentary About) Saturday Night (Live)!
In which the institution of SNL is further institutionalized in rather fawning fashion.
The SpongeBob Movie: Fish Out of Water Is Drugs for Kids
A sugary, manic reality ruled by nothing whatsoever save whim and high-octane corn syrup. Is that good? Bad? Maybe we should let the twins from The Shining weigh in?
Trailer Round-Up: Mockingjay, Martian, Everest, and A Pigeon Sitting On A Branch, Reflecting On Existence
A few flicks to flee from or look forward to.
Orgy of The Blood Parasites! On Slither, Shivers, and Night of The Creeps
In which deadly alien slug monsters take over the world.
We Need More Rip-Offs and Fewer Reboots and Remakes
Death to reboots and remakes! Let’s go back to ripping off classics and calling them our own.
Donnie Brasco? You Must Be Joking
A movie that demands to be moved straight to the top of your Movies Not To Watch list.
The Connection: Straight, No Chaser
The Connection takes the true story that inspired The French Connection and plays it out to its bitter end in Marseilles.
Kung Fury: The Best Dollar You Didn’t Spend
Kung Fury is, in the end, something. And it is something you can watch in just half an hour. Might as well get it over with.
Skidoo To You Too
Otto Preminger’s “comedy” from 1968. Underground classic or brain-curdling turd?
Sleepless Night Slams You Against the Tarmac
If you’d like a compact pill of tension: Sleepless Night.
Montage of Heck & Heaven Adores You: In Which Musical Suicides Kurt Cobain and Elliott Smith Are Exhumed
One of these docs invites you in, the other one shoves you out.
Disney’s The Black Hole: Like Stupid But Stupider
If Disney’s 1979 “science fiction” movie, The Black Hole, were any stupider, it would collapse in on itself and the take the entire universe with it.
About Elly: Solving the Mystery of Yourself
A bitter ending is better than an endless bitterness.
Mad Max: Fury Road — Real Action Reaction
Cataclysmically, unrelentingly action packed, like a room full of toddlers hopped up on PCP and strapped to power saws, told that only the last of them standing gets the graham cracker