Ben & Kate Review: A Very Promising New Comedy
Quirky promo picture.
Shiny Toy Guns’ Second Single Off III, Fading Listening, Now Available For Your Disco Sensibilities
Get your platforms ready, y’all!
Well, this is different. After a lukewarm first single in Waiting Alone, and a bizarre-bordering-on-corny extended video for it called Loverunner, in which lead vocalist Carah is stabbed and nearly raped (seriously), we get this charming little single. It’s a better single than Waiting Alone was, but it makes me wonder if Shiny Toy Guns is hiding their bold adventurous music, like last year’s “The Sun” somewhere in the album.
Bernie Review – Too Weird To Live And Too Rare To Die
“…and here’s some chocolate muffins for a late night snack!”
It would take a quirky director like Richard Linklater (A Scanner Darkly, School of Rock) to bring this stranger-than-fiction true story to life. Bernie Tiede (Jack Black) is just the most charming man you’ve ever seen. As an assistant funeral home director, he opens the film by exposing his tricks to presenting the recently deceased, including exquisite amounts of super glue to keep eyelids and lips sealed to keep the jarring presence rigor mortis at bay. But this isn’t a macabre movie despite his occupation. He’s in the business of death, but he enjoys life so much! Whether he’s removing ruined bodies from a car wreck, presiding over a funeral service, or helping the quaint folks of Carthage, Texas with their income taxes, you can’t not love Bernie. So what happens when he murders the town’s wicked witch? The court has to move the trial for even a remote chance to be fair. The folks of Carthage just won’t convict the darling.
Hit and Run Review: An Adrenaline-Free Action Comedy
Hit and Miss
Dax Shepard co-directs, writes, edits, and stars in Hit and Run, which lands in theaters this weekend. There’s a taut, clever little action comedy buried somewhere in this bloated movie about a former getaway driver who dodges former criminal associates in a 1960’s muscle car as he tries to get his girlfriend to a life-changing job interview. With a more structured screenplay and some judicious editing, we might have been able to see that movie. As it stands, however, Hit and Run is pretty weak. Read the rest of this article…
Premium Rush: Porn for Bicycling Enthusiasts
“Brakes are death!”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt gets more than he bargained for when he’s asked to deliver a mysterious envelope to New York’s Chinatown in Premium Rush. This film from writer/director David Koepp (best known for drafting the screenplays for Jurassic Park and Spider-Man) envisions a Manhattan dominated by hotshot, adrenaline-junkie bicycle messengers who perform death-defying feats in exchange for a minimum wage salary. Is this story even tangentially connected to reality? Hell if I know; I’ve never lived in New York. Premium Rush is, however, an enjoyable piece of escapist entertainment if you approach it with the right mindset.
Dredd 3D Trailers, How Did I Miss This Movie?
I AM THE LAW
Did Furious Pete Take It Too Far?
Warning – Do Not Do This. (Not even for a Klondike Bar.)
Furious Pete, an eating competitor/body builder, is well known for eating just about anything and everything in his path. Watching Pete shove various foods down his throat as fast as possible are incredibly entertaining. But does his latest contribution take it too far?
The Rocketeer To Be Rebooted, Disney To Receive One Million Cool Points
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES…
The first movie we saw as a family after moving back to the United States in 1991 was The Rocketeer, a fantastic art-deco/science-fiction fusion based on the eighties comics of the same name. The title character is Cliff Secord, a race driver who happens upon a stolen jetpack, juggles his career against that of aspiring actress girlfriend (OMG JENNIFER CONNOLLY OMG), gets a cool helmet designed by his mechanic friend Peevey, and, well, adventures ensue! The Rocketeer never escaped cult status, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t 100% cool as hell.
OMG, New Doctor Who Season Premiere Trailer!
Even the Doctor enjoys photobombing from time to time.
Doctor Who, the longest running science fiction television show ever, is about to embark on a new season full of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey…stuff. Wait, so when does it actually start? It certainly won’t take a Time Lord to figure that one out.
Avril Lavigne To Marry Chad Kroeger: 2002’s Coolest Headline
This is the coolest thing that didn’t happen for a long time!
Do you remember Avril Lavigne? Sk8r Boi? Yeah, that was a thing. Well, she’s getting married to the lead singer of the worst band in existence. Literally, they have some kind of metric that they grade these things by and they simply won the most loser points. The last time that I remember being interested in either of these people was right around college, but these two have realized there is little more they can accomplish in life… except each other.
