| Movie | Rating | Review | Date | Your Rating | Match | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Punisher - R | Not half as bad as I expected it to be, but still tone-deaf in all the wrong places. | December 28, 2008 | N/A | |||
| The Black Room - Unrated | Mostly a typical melodrama of the era, but a cool dual role by Karloff and a neat-o oubliette make it more memorable than it should be. | December 24, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Tank Girl - R |
Good Stuff?; +Lori Petty, yes Tank Girl is the girl I want +If you close your eyes, it sounds like Dini-verse Livewire is talkin' really dirty +Jet Girl looks like Daria +Now I want to read the comics Bad Stuff; -McDowell, playing the same old banal motiveless boring IDIOT villain. -Song and dance number, when she should have been shooting pervs in the face -Everything else |
December 24, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Bolt - PG | Saw this as a second choice, but was pleasantly surprised. Great characters and many a funny bit. | December 3, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Matinee - PG | Neat Bill Castle angle, and I like a film that wears a love for cinema nostalgia on its sleeve. I could have done without the whole 'weren't people dumb back now' vibe. | December 3, 2008 | N/A | |||
| The Whistler - Unrated | Nice atmospheric work, all the more enjoyable for being directed by Castle. A bit abrupt and rather disjointed, but then again good noir should always be unpredictable. | November 13, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Zotz! - Unrated | Inoffensive but limp. Castle's films sure went south once he abandoned horror. | November 5, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Whistle and I'll Come to You - Unrated |
Like the tale it is taken from, this short film is meandering and starchy, yet puncuated by some of the most terrifying imageryI have ever encountred. The idea behind this story should haunt any thinking mind for some time. When we say that the human soul survives death, might it be in the same way the human body survived some accident. As something palpable and sentient, but nevertheless irrevocably broken. |
November 4, 2008 | N/A | |||
| The Stone Tape - Unrated | Slow, materialistic, meandering and cheap. Oh, and very very English. So many reasons for me to hate this movie, and yet I don't by any measure. There's a lot going on beneath the surface of Kneale's writing. And while I find it rather odd that this was at one time considred one of the scariest broadcasts ever, it is still rather enjoyable. | November 4, 2008 | N/A | |||
| The Godfather - R | Excellent in every aspect. Don't think I'm ready to jump on the "greatest film ever made" bandwagon, but still. | October 25, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Be Kind Rewind - PG-13 | The sweding was hillarious, and the main plot touching. An especially beautiful ending. This is a movie made by and for poeple who love movies, and it shows. | October 15, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs - Unrated | A few good lines, but pretty flat compared to Big Score. | October 15, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Macbeth - Unrated | A good attempt but its edgy pretensions do it in. If you're going to adapt Shakespeare as a bloody action flick, update the dialog ala Kurosawa, and if you're shooting for a faithful retelling, leave out the group sex with goth chicks. (Though if I may, such a scene would really perk up Dickens!) | October 6, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Iron Man - PG-13 | As much as I love The Dark Knight it is refreshing to see a superhero who won't think twice about roasting a jihadi scumbag to death with a flamethrower. Oh, and despite a really slow start, the rest of the movie is pretty cool too. Still, fire... he, he, he. | October 6, 2008 | N/A | |||
| The Little Mermaid - G | look, I'm a complecated man, don't judge me just becase I watched the little mermaid and liked it. Longing to be part of the human world she can never fully join, Ariel can be seen as a prototypical Gen-X angst figure like Daria or Holden Caufield... oh who am I kidding. I can't make liking this movie sound any less weenie than it is. | October 6, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Run Fatboy Run - PG-13 | I've read a lot of neg buzz about this pic, and of course, it was all nonsense. 'Run' is a charming is somewhat formulaic flick, filled with likable charecters and an above average share of laughs. It's not a Wright/Frost/Pegg film, so don't expect it to be subversive and geeky. Just be glad someone made a romantic comedy you can watch with your girlfriend without wanting to vomit. | October 6, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Giant from the Unknown (Giant from Devil's Crag)(Giant from Diablo Point) - Unrated | A cool premise, with a tepid limping execution. Another gray b-movie so paint-by numbers I kept expecting to see the bots sitting in the corner. | September 18, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Rocky III - PG | Ok, this is the point these films started getting ridiculous. Still, Mr. T is cool. | September 18, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Rocky II - PG | Contrived and unrealistic in parts, but a lot of the drama still works. | September 18, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Strange Days - R | An interesting film in a time capsule sort of way. It doesn't work astoundingly in and of itself. (Though it's certainly better thought-out than most films.) Instead the film becomes something of a societal reliquary, projecting then current worries of growing racial animosity and street crime onto a 21st century setting. This of course being before Columbine and 911, little did the filmmakers know we'd have fresh new horrors to torment us in the future. (Though they did get the crappy economy, crippling gas prices, and ridiculous quagmire right!) | August 21, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Stranger on the Third Floor - Unrated | One of the first noir films, and Peter Lorre is brilliantly creepy as usual. Still, since he's only in the film for a few minutes, it's pretty slow goings for the most part. | August 21, 2008 | N/A | |||
| The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor - PG-13 | Like 'Crystal Skull', this is one of those odd films that plays like fan fiction. The style, director, setting, and cast are so radically different that the film feels wholly detached from it's predecessors. It's not fair to call it a bad film, there are plenty of bits that are worth watching. (The very sound of the emperor, hollow and heavy, is damn creepy.) Unfortunately they're overshadowed by some glaring problems. Maria Bello does her best to sub for Rachel Weisz, but there's really no chemistry between her and Fraser. Likewise, there are plenty of dead spots in the film, as Cohen lacks Sommer's knack for pacing. Taken all together, the film is rather mediocre. | August 14, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Diary of the Dead - R | Terrible dialog, impossible to like characters, and sub-par direction. I feel soooo dirty giving a Romero 'Dead' film a bad review, but this one is flat, dopey, cliched, and just way too damn full of itself. | August 6, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Kung Fu Hustle - R | A damn funny opening and and action-packed end, unfortunately they crash in the middle. When kooky characters start dying bloody deaths, well there went my enjoyability. | August 6, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Cloverfield - PG-13 | I could excuse the film being derivative if only the characters were in any way likable, or the story more than just bare bones. | August 6, 2008 | N/A |
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