Archive for the ‘Movies’ Category

Build-It-Yourself Horror Movie

Since horror movies are down to such a cookie cutter formula, why can’t you plug in your own actresses-it-isn’t-working-out-for and get a solid killer and turn your $5 Million dollar budget into a $6 Million straight-to-DVD blockbuster? Follow these steps to be the next Wes Craven wannabe. Catch a Falling Star The most important thing [...]

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Whenever John Travolta Plays a Bad Guy He Looks Like a Tool Ad Executive in 1990

Why is it that every time John Travolta plays a bad guy, instead of looking evil and menacing, he looks like he’s a mid-level douche bag executive in the mid- to late-1990s experiencing a textbook mid-life crisis? It’s always the standard play-by-play for how to enter your 50s in complete denial. He either shaves his [...]

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Shouldn’t Jackie Chan Have English Down By Now?

I just saw the preview for The Spy Next Door, which finally combines the movies Spy Kids and Rear Window, and it just seems a little surprising that Jackie Chan still speaks English as well as the hostess at my local Wok Don’t Run. Avatar invented an entire race, with its own language, culture and [...]

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The Indisputable Top Ten Movies of 2009

All those other top ten movies of 2009 lists, namely the Golden Globes and Oscars are knockoffs. This list is correct and irrefutable, unless you like overrated movies, like District 9 and Paranormal Activity, in which case you’d like to be popular, which probably wouldn’t land you here. Here we go… Just missed the cut: [...]

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Is Anyone Else Turned On By the Lady Chipmunks in the Alvin and The Chipmunks Squekquel Trailer?

I don’t want this to get too pervy, but surely I can’t be the only one who has noticed how hot the lady chipmunks are at the end of the trailer for Alvin and The Chipmunks 2: The Squekquel. Let’s put two things aside for starters. Yes, they are rodents and they could be young. [...]

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“Brothers” Is About Spider-Man Joining the Army

I saw the trailer for Spider-Man 4, which is going by the name Brothers, opening tomorrow and I can’t figure out the missing pieces between the last Spider-Man movie and this one. The best I could figure out is that it’s a retelling of the first one, but they recasted Natalie Portman as Mary Jane [...]

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