The Dark Knight: Overrated (Excepting Heath Ledger)
Caught the new Batman movie this afternoon with my son. Despite liking the hell out of Batman Begins, I found The Dark Knight pretty underwhelming. The action was ok I suppose, but the fight scenes were edited so tightly as to be kind of hard to follow. Christian Bale was [...]
What do you think you are, a Kennedy? You’re a Bush.
No, you’re a douche. Or Oliver Stone is anyway. I’ve never made a secret of the fact that I believe if you’ve seen one of his films, you’ve seen every heavy-handed, stupidly obvious, ham-fisted way to make a point ever committed to celluloid, but since [...]
I am and have been a horror film fan for a long time. The first film that scared the hell out of me was Halloween, which I saw in the theater when it was first released in 1978. It was my first film of that genre (that’d be the creepy-mass-murderer-that-won’t-die genre); there hadn’t [...]
I have not seen the Sex And The City movie (which I keep thinking is Sex IN The City). I will not see the Sex And The City movie. But that’s not going to stop me from writing a review as if I had.
We take our seats. The theater is full, mostly women [...]
I’ll tell you how tough. Last night I caught a bit of the original version of Rollerball on television. If you haven’t seen it, Rollerball was one of those movies that came along in the seventies that tried to make incisive observations and predictions about society and violence. There was a raft of them in [...]
