The Skin I Live In Review: The Best Skin In The World
Pedro Almodovar builds a queasy, unsettling thriller with equal parts melodrama and horror in this modern day mad scientist flick starring Antonio Banderas and Elena Anaya. The Skin I Live In holds the distinction of being one of the few movies I’ve seen that is genuinely repulsive while not relying on an excess of gore or freely flowing bodily fluids. And I kinda dig it.
21 Jump Street Five Minute Long Form Red Band Trailer
Back in November I told you about the 21 Jump Street movie coming out March 16th and how much I wanted to see it. I really want to see it and the red band trailer just hasn’t been enough to hold me over for another week and a half. Luckily MTV got their hands on an exclusive five minute long red band trailer. It’s pretty much the red band trailer but longer and it is funny as hell. Take a gander! Read the rest of this article…
Ten Minutes Of Disney’s ‘John Carter’ Make Me Want To See It Even Less
Before the lashing begins: I love Andrew Stanton, the director of this long in utero film. John Carter is a legendary property that’s passed through multiple directors over the decades. Stanton, for those not in the know, is the Pixar wizard who brought us Finding Nemo and Wall-E. Fellow alum Brad Bird graduated to live action filmmaking recently and ended up with Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, which was a great action flick, so how does Stanton do with John Carter, due out this Friday? Well, not good, if this “promo” video is any indication (included after the break!).
Spartacus Vengeance – How To Spoil A Good Thing
It’s with great pleasure that my partner enjoys the same TV shows as I do. Having introduced her to Chuck we spent many nights watching it and conversing over just about everything that happened. With Chuck sadly ended I introduced her to the first two series of Spartacus (Gods of the Arena and Blood & Sand, for those not in the know) and convinced her that the third series would be great too. However, after the unfortunate and untimely death of Andy Whitfield cracks began to appear in the overall plan for the highly anticipated third series and she now continuously reminds me of how wrong I seem to have been. Read the rest of this article…
Project X Review: Not Big Enough To Be Cool
Watching Project X is like being the designated driver at a kick ass college party. You’ll get to watch people having fun, getting stoned, and getting laid, but you’re not going to experience any of that. You’re just going to sit there stone cold sober and un-laid – like an asshole – while constantly checking your watch or cell phone to see how much longer this damn thing is going to continue.
Retreat Review: Be A Man
A married couple working through a personal tragedy fall victim to a deranged house guest in Retreat, starring Thandie Newton, Cillian Murphy, and Jamie Bell. The film is well acted, well directed, and contains a couple of surprises, but ultimately ends up being fairly boring. This general premise has been done many times before and done better.
Wanderlust Review: Hippie Bullshit
Two self absorbed yuppies drift through a sea of grotesquerie in this mess of a rom com from director David Wain. Arguments abound, life lessons are learned, and dicks flap freely in the wind in a hippie commune. Humor never makes an appearance. Complete fucking bullshit.
Act of Valor Review: Valorous Propaganda
The Navy’s experiment in action filmmaking combined with propaganda yields surprisingly decent results in Act of Valor, a movie holding the distinction of featuring active duty Navy Seals in principal roles and utilizing live ammo during several of its firefight sequences. The movie is frequently dry and flat when it comes to human drama, but competently crafted and engaging when the bullets start flying. For action junkies, Act of Valor may end up being one of the better movies of the year.
Newgrounds Relaunches, My Interview With Founder Tom Fulp
Newgrounds, as its tagline suggests, is everything for everyone. Adobe Flash made a crowdsourcing star out of the site with tons of quirky, violent, and comical games and movies before it powered the internet video revolution with sites like YouTube. Founded by Tom Fulp, a kid from Pennsylvania, Newgrounds originally served as a comic book in 1995. The site grew at the turn of the century as its Flash Portal allowed people to upload their work to the site to be judged, then celebrated or blammed (the site’s term for ‘sent to oblivion’). While Newgrounds doesn’t celebrate YouTube’s traffic, it’s developed a cool, insular community. Newgrounds recently launched its first major redesign in over half a decade and I got to sit down with Tom about the new look and feel and how the site is going to move in the future.
Awake on NBC is TV’s Most Exciting New Series
Like FleshEatingZipper, NBC’s new detective thriller – Awake – is full of layers, which is to say we’re sophisticated. We’ll cover virtually anything under the sun and Awake has clever, multi-threaded investigations each episode, so it makes sense that we would bring them on as our newest sponsor. Every morning, Michael Britten awakes to a new reality in which either his wife or his son is dead after a terrible car crash. He ping-pongs between these parallel universes in each episode as he solves the greatest mystery of all: why he’s stuck this way.
