Miscellaneous, etc.

Sometimes I go to movies because I hope they’re going to be good, and then they end up being okay but not great, like Constantine. Sometimes, I go to movies expecting them to be bad, and they turn out to be way better than I would have hoped, like Sin City. And then [...]

Seeing Van Helsing is like being punched in the imagination. I can’t put it to you any more plain than that. It’s really that simple.

Part of my passionate affection for September comes from the afterglow of the summertime Box Office Bonanza. Caught in between the last-ditch blockbusters of August and the fawning Oscar-bait of October are a crop of films whose best content is probably contained in the trailer, but who are still better than waiting for the [...]

Who doesn’t enjoy reviews? Who doesn’t love to pick up the newspaper and see the columns of exhaustive, heartfelt, intellectual analysis of our favorite films? And who, really, bothers to read the entirety of any of these things? There’s a reason that the entire review can be summed up by a combination of the first [...]

Who doesn’t enjoy reviews? Who doesn’t love to pick up the newspaper and see the columns of exhaustive, heartfelt, intellectual analysis of our favorite films? And who, really, bothers to read the entirety of any of these things? There’s a reason that the entire review can be summed up by a combination of the first [...]