Life has been dull. Dull, dull, dull. Not much to fill up the days except stew about the same old crap ( Read more... )

82. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I (2010) - I find Harry Potter stuff almost unreviewable. As someone who falls into this odd pocket of liking Harry Potter, instead of fanatically loving it or vociferously hating it, all of my opinions on it set everyone off. It also doesn't help that my favorites of the books and films do not match ( Read more... )

79. Grey Gardens (1975) - The Maysles Brothers famous documentary about an eccentric old woman and her daughter, the aunt and cousin of Jackie Kennedy, who live together in squalor in a run-down mansion in the Hamptons. This is a terrible comparison to make, but I could best describe it as a sort of precursor to reality TV. It must have been ( Read more... )

77. The Room (2003) - Yep, I sat through Tommy Wiseau's messterpiece again. He was in town for a midnight screening, so I showed up. I managed to high five him, so there's a story for my grandkids. Greg Sestero was there too, looking about as embarrassed as a man can look ( Read more... )

73. The Honeymoon Killers (1969) - A movie based on the Lonely Hearts murders of the late '40s. It has a big cult following, and hasn't been available on video until recently ( Read more... )

A whole bunch, partly because of a marathon of stupid movies at chebutykin's place after the MCBA Fallcon, partly because I just haven't done this in a while

65. Doomsday (2008) - Post-apocalyptic actioner directed by the guy who did Dog Soldiers. It's a bit too slick for it's own good. If a movie includes a scene of a man being ritually roasted alive and ( Read more... )

64. Trust Us, This Is All Made Up (2009) - A documentary on TJ Jagodowsky and David Pasquesi, who are considered by some people to be the two best improvisers anywhere. It's about half an hour of them discussing improv, their method and so on, and about an hour of them doing an improv show in New York. I'd seen it before ( Read more... )

62. The Impostors (1998) - Stanley Tucci's homage to 1930s farce. Two out of work actors run afoul of a pompous Shakespearean ham, then wind up on a cruise ship with him, plus several other people with several other agendas ( Read more... )

61. Justice League: The New Frontier - DTV animated adaptation of Darwyn Cooke's comic book miniseries, which was one of my favorite things of the past few years. It's essentially the origins of the Justice League, set in the Fifties and early Sixties, with more realistic cold war politics and a weirdo, Lovecraftian entity ( Read more... )

58. Dolemite - The famous Rudy Ray Moore blaxploitation classic. I'd describe it as more professionally done than Petey Wheatstraw (about as faint a praise as could be imagined), but a whole lot duller. The pacing is really terrible. Honestly, I found this so dull I'm seriously surprised Dolemite became a pop culture shorthand for bad-ass ( Read more... )