>> All About Steve (4/10)

The makers of All About Steve want to present  Mary Magdalene Horowitz (played with tics and smiles by Sandra Bullock) as a desirable, attractive, brain-damaged idiot woman-child–the sexiest, smartest weirdo you’ve ever met–and in doing so, create one of the most insufferable characters Sandra Bullock has ever played.  The issue here is that she’s the [...]

>> Gamer (3/10)

“Is this bad?” asks Michael C. Hall as Gamer’s Ken Castle, the villain of the new film from Crank auteurs Mark Neveldine and Bryan Taylor.  The answer is a loud and clear “YES!”  Gamer could be viewed as either an ADD-addled exercise in deplorable, violent garbage or an astoundingly  juvenille z-grade popcorn movie, but there [...]

>> The Wrestler (9/10)

The Wrestler is not an underdog story.  It’s not the story of a man with an unattainable dream who works beyond all odds to get within reach of his dream.  If that story is a part of The Wrestler at all, then it happened a good twenty-five years or so before this film starts.  Randy [...]

>> Disaster Movie (2/10)

Let me save you the money.  The following is a complete list of all of the references that Disaster Movie makes.  The film does not attach any meaning or jokes to the references, so I won’t either, in keeping with the spirit of the film.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Cloverfield, Amy [...]

>> Step Brothers (7.5/10)

Someday, in the future, someone will write an amazing thesis paper on this film, tapping into its satirical sucker punch right into the throat of modern parenting–a permissive culture, raising their children with vague concepts instead of actual instruction, mistaking a lassez-faire approach with unconditional love, and dismissing boorishness and ignorance under the guise of [...]

>> The Ruins (John’s Review, 7/10)

There is no reason why The Ruins, a movie about American college students fighting against killer plants in Mexico, should work, but it does. It not only works, but it works well.
I read the Scott Smith novel on which the film was based because of the critical praise for the novel and my love [...]