It’s a board-game movie, so I don’t think anyone has their expectations especially high, though the only other board-game movie I can think of off the top of my head is Clue, and it was fantastic. And Connect Four, but I think that’s a porno. Seriously, we all kind of knew this wasn’t going...
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I feel bad being so late to this movie—granted this is the opening day, but it seems that for the past two weeks, everyone in the world has seen it already. And so, for the past two weeks, everyone’s been raving about it and saying that it’s the greatest superhero movie ever made; it’s...
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We’re down to eight now, and I was kind of surprised at this week’s elimination—I won’t spoil it yet. Another surprise is this apparent Clay-Arsenio alliance mentioned in the “previously on” segment that opens the show. Did that exist last week? I thought it was all about Lisa actually being cordial to Dayana. Nevertheless,...
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I’m probably going to see better comedies this year, but I don’t think I’m going to laugh at any one as much as I did at The Three Stooges. When I told that to my editors, Shannon and Matt, they both wrote back in disbelief. I know the trailer got a massive amount of...
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I’m a Bob Marley fan, but I wasn’t ready for a two-and-a-half-hour documentary on the guy. I liked director Kevin MacDonald’s other stuff, particularly The Last King of Scotland and Life in a Day, but, again, two-and-a-half hours. And while the time doesn’t fly by, it does hold your interest. There’s the standard talking...
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I’d be lying if I said that I wasn’t hoping for another explosive blowup between Arsenio and Aubrey this week – he basically said everything I was feeling toward Aubrey last week, pointing out her overuse of “I,” “me,” and “my,” taking credit for damn near everything, and, yes, shoving the box aside. But...
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This decent thriller and remake of the Uruguayan film La Casa Muda is more fun than scary — the jumps, false alarms, little girls, bumps in the night, close-ups of the heroine’s boobies, etc. — border on abuse they’re used so often; first it’s spooky, then it’s overused, then it comes back around to...
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Roger Ebert once wrote of Fellini’s La Dolce Vita that when he first saw it as a young man, he wanted to be Mastroianni in the film, living it up at parties, drinking exotic booze, and traipsing with potent women. Years later, he felt pity for the empty, carefree life of the character Rubini...
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The story of The Lorax has never felt right to me. Either the Once-ler is the most short-sighted whatsit in the world, next to the Lorax himself (or at least the forest creatures), or the entire tale is a buried parable on the importance of stable property rights. Given Seuss’s general lack of subtlety...
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We'll probably (like everyone else) be providing snarky commentary on the winners and losers in the next few days -- or at the very least long after anyone cares. But for now, we'll just forgo our personal thoughts on the Awards, presenters, and the sexy pillow fights and bring you the cold, hard, sexy...
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