By James on September 26th, 2011 at 2:37 pm Film, Reviews It’s all the science fiction clichés you can imagine, compressed into a super diamond of unintentional hilarity. Read More →
By James on September 24th, 2011 at 11:49 am Film, Reviews It’s Alice in Wonderland meets Caged Heat. Read More →
By James on September 23rd, 2011 at 1:17 pm Film, Reviews I mean, I thought the sequence in the new Last House on the Left was rough, but I Spit On Your Grave leaves it in the rearview. Read More →
By James on September 22nd, 2011 at 2:35 pm Film, Reviews Is it a GOOD movie? Lord no, not in the slightest. But it is a good bad movie and more important (at least from where I’m standing) it’s a fun movie. Read More →
By James on July 10th, 2011 at 9:24 pm Film, Reviews Thanks to some well timed bribery and a willingness to take risks that I can’t even fathom, Samantha and Andrew end up on the scenic route back to the good ol’ U.S. of A., one that takes them through the heart of the Infected Zone. Along the way they’ll discover things about themselves, their companion and life itself, including such useful lessons as how to avoid being eaten by a tentacled horror from beyond the stars. Read More →
By James on July 5th, 2011 at 8:48 pm Comics, Film, Reviews Just before the lights dimmed, Joe Johnston, director of the Rocketeer, addressed the audience. “I always knew, someday, someone was going to like this film.” Read More →
By James on May 26th, 2011 at 2:04 pm Film, Reviews Thomas Bess recommends a film made in 1977 that, despite doing so with countless movies before, he has trouble describing it. Read More →
By James on May 25th, 2011 at 7:15 pm Film, Reviews Though the marketing campaign is doing its damndest to make sure you don’t realize it, SAW 3D is actually the seventh installment in the franchise that made “torture porn” the most polarizing horror sub-genre in recent memory. Stop and think about that for a second: there are SEVEN freakin’ SAW movies out there. Read More →
By James on May 24th, 2011 at 9:35 pm Film, Reviews In the interest of your time and my fervent desire to not be labeled a shill again, let’s get this out of the way immediately. If you thought (no matter how wrongheaded that thinking might have been) that the first Paranormal Activity was a boring, overhyped slice of wank cake, please know that you can stop reading now and be content in the knowledge that your opinion of the sequel will be exactly the same. Read More →
By James on May 20th, 2011 at 12:00 pm Film, Reviews My Soul to Take is a pretty entertaining (albeit rather different) yarn, but there’s just enough problems salted throughout to keep it from being as effective as it could have been. Read More →
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