WARNING: I have a lot of %&*@ing feelings about these movies. Feel free to skip to the end ( Read more... )

There's a point in A Tale of Incredibly Unsubtle Social Commentary Elysium where a ship is zipping through space, no artificial gravity or anything, and a bunch of objects start floating around. Like beer bottles and other blunt objects. This was not the first clue that every character in the movie was an idiot. If Do Stupid Shit was an available ( Read more... )

Making it quick because soccer in 15 minutes.

R.I.P.D. is a lot better than I thought it would be. The effects - and the whole movie, really - are kind of cartoony but it works just fine. The action, for once, does not look like it was filmed by a guy having a seizure. The story makes sense and does not take itself too seriously. It's only 96 ( Read more... )

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The most accurate description of Beasts of the Southern Wild I've seen yet:

But if you can see past the craft, this tale of deep south swamp hobos and feral children that eat cat food has all the depth of one of those Levis slam poetry commercials. I thought we weren’t supposed to fall for the Magic Negro and the Noble Savage anymore? Yet here it ( Read more... )