Articles tagged with: movies
The movie doesn’t make any kind of sense, and yet I spent the next 24 hours creeped out beyond belief. The “killer video” itself is so incredibly unsettling, and the tinny music on it…[shudder]. I …
Slower than I’d like — it’s nearly half an hour before there’s fight contact of any kind — and horribly stagy, but still worth watching, for three reasons: 1) the wardrobe, which is ’73 to …
It took a little while to get going, and certain payoffs weren’t quite earned, but I really liked the kid and I really liked Judy Davis; I don’t think her character was written with as …
It’s probably really wrong that 1) Jeffrey Combs reminds me of Stephen Colbert and 2) that’s part of why I loved the movie, but hey, I gotta be me. Plus the pervy zombie head is …
I like Jamie Foxx a lot, and this is impressive work, especially the singing; he’s getting the Oscar for sure. But the movie pointed up the problem with all bio-pics, which is that the movie …
No movie with a scene in which John Malkovich 1) gets pelted with fish, then 2) disses Terry Kinney can be all bad, but this one is pretty damn bad. It’s derivative, it tries too …
Words cannot describe how much I loved this movie as a kid; I probably watched it twenty times, and it always gave me that “FUCK yeah!” feeling in my stomach. Well, I watched it again, …
Yeah, I know. It’s a fucking awful movie, but I remembered it for some reason as being not only 1) fairly funny in spots but 2) a lot better than people gave it credit for. …
The grandpappy of disaster movies, and I have to say, we’ve seen all these tropes before, but 1) it’s because this movie gave birth to many of them, 2) it still works, and 3) what …
Not as scary as I remembered, although it’s got its share of jump scenes — and more likeable, actually. There’s always a decision made, from a writing standpoint, on how much time to spend on …