This one was a bit of a mind-bender. Was it an action movie? Allegorical religious drama? Science Fiction? A Mad Max/The Road/Fahrenheit 451 ripoff? Actually, yes to all of the above. The world has already ended. Again. I never thought I’d say this, but I’m getting tired of seeing the world end on screen. The…
Awesome: a group of people hole up in a diner in the middle of the desert because it turns out God has sent an army of angels down to wipe out the human race, and one of these people is pregnant with a baby that will be humanity’s salvation. It’s gonna be war, man, war…
Yet another entry in the long line of vampire related movies being made recently. Can we stop with the vampires already? Let’s move on to some other monster, but not werewolves, because that’s about to happen anyway. Maybe the Incredible Shrinking Man? Mmm, no. How about The Invisible Man? Uuh, no, no. Maybe Food of…
Now that Avatar has won a Golden Globe for best movie and it has been nominated for an Oscar for best movie, I feel I should explain why it sucks. And, my God, are there a lot of reasons. And don’t even get me started on Avatar being nominated for best screenplay by the…
Well, here we are again; it’s Oscar time! It’s that time of year when the Academy rewards the best, most creative, most affecting, and certainly the best in the craft of film making of the past year. Oh, wait, no, sorry, that’s what the Academy is SUPPOSED to do, however, this year, with the absurd…
Turner Classic Movies has recently restored the concert film/documentary “Elvis: That’s The Way It Is,” adding “lost” footage, and re-cutting the entire film. The new (2007) two-disc set includes the original DVD release augmented with the new, superior version and a few extras. The new film packs in more Presley by replacing fan footage of…
As a long time fan of The Rolling Stones, I slipped Martin Scorsese’s “Shine a Light” concert/documentary into my DVD player, desperately wanting them to not suck. After all, rock and roll is thought of as a young man’s game, and their advancing age long ago became a stale topic for jokes. I was pleasantly…
Roger Corman’s “Rock ‘N’ Roll High School” is one of the all-time best rock & roll movies. Corman is revered in Hollywood for shooting films on a shoestring budget, for never losing money on a film, and for giving some of the best filmmakers their start. The list includes Ron Howard, Francis Ford Coppola,…
I’ve got a soft spot for low-budget, quickie rock and roll flicks that small studios rushed out to capitalize on the popularity of early rock and roll. Rock and roll music was seen as a fad until The Beatles legitimized it and, all these years later, its fun to look back on a time when…
You know when you used to hang with your friends and one would ask, “Would you rather…” and they would have to choose one horrific hypothetical way to die over another? Or they would ask “What would you do if you were in THIS terrible situation…?” Right, well, the movie Frozen is just that sort of idea put on film. Yeah, it’s a real simple concept. The problem is finding enough interesting things to fill it with.