Chris Pratt Should NOT Play Indiana Jones… he Should Play Forrestal
Keep the fan boys happy, get Chris Pratt a fourth franchise to carry and provide some retroactive enjoyment to Raiders instead of taking a Phantom Menace like dump on it.
Queen And Country: A Sequel By John Boorman That Isn’t Zardoz 2
A bit of fond remembrance from director John Boorman that does not include a flying stone head.
There Is Only One Catch, and That’s Catch-22
I suppose you’d have to be crazy to like Catch-22, but then if you’re crazy, who cares what you think? I guess that’s the catch.
Why Was I Not Told of Dagon?
Stuart Gordon’s other H.P. Lovecraft adaptation seems to have snuck in under my radar…14 years ago.
The Imitation Game and The Theory of Everything… Successful and Forgettable Oscar Bait
Thoughts on two winners you’ll have forgotten won by the time you’re done reading this.
Scientifically Infallible Oscar Predictions 2015
Allow us to win your Oscar pool for you.
John Carter Vs. A Princess Of Mars
In which I suffer the slings and arrows of John Carter, Disney’s ludicrous adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s A Princess of Mars, for your amusement and edification.
What We Do In The Shadows, or: Flight of The Kiwi Vampires
Two thirds of the Flight of The Conchords fellas team up with some other funny New Zealanders, drink the blood of innocents, crack jokes. You will like it.
Leviathan: Too Big to Fail
In Leviathan, we are either killed by innocence or corruption. The choice is yours.
Documenting Jungle Madness
In which Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey…, a new documentary on the making of The Island of Dr. Moreau, and other chronicles of mad jungle adventures are thunk upon.
Hits, In Which David Cross Laughs At Everyone But David Cross
Hipster mocks hipsters. Universe implodes. Mild laughs ensue.
The Shooting & Ride In The Whirlwind: Monte Hellman’s Odd Pair of Westerns
In which we discuss these two ’60s westerns oft-cited as the original acid westerns, and wonder whether “acid western” is indeed a genre.
For Y’ur Height Only Comes Up Way Short
Weng Weng’s fighting style is mostly a blend of hiding behind things and sliding along the floor like Tom Cruise in his underpants.
Red Army: A Doc About Soviet Hockey, And Much More Besides
The Soviet Union was a strange place. Strange to anyone who didn’t live there, and, I’d have to expect, strange to those who did.