It has been some time since I have felt the need to steel myself prior to watching a film. Part of this is being a human being who knows that they’re about to encounter something horrific. Part of it is the fact that I get nervous when large groups of white people like a film about black suffering, and “12 Years a Slave” is probably the most lauded ( Read more... )

The White Review:If the fact that Oprah is in it isn’t enough to get you to a theater to see a film directed by a black person, let me further make the case here that you should if for no other reason than Lee Daniels has gone through great pains to make a black film for white people. Shout out to the one Random Evil White Guy in a bowling shirt ( Read more... )

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I have been waiting for Prometheus for over 30 years.

My oldest brother was often charged with babysitting my brother Tony and I which included, among other inappropriate adventures, the occasional R-rated movie. In 1979, at the tender age of eight, such an excursion was made to what was then a Town & Country-area theater to see Alien. I distinctly ( Read more... )

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Part of what made the 1982 version of “The Thing” cool was the way it started: opening shot of an Antarctic landscape, a screaming Norwegian in a helicopter firing a rifle at an innocent dog making its way through mounds of snow to find solace at a nearby camp of Americans. We don’t know why the man is shooting at the dog. We don’t know why he’s ( Read more... )

Okay, Home Movie? That shit is genuinely SCARY.
Bad kids is frightening, son.

It's official: I have the most disturbing Netflix Streaming queue in the world.

A few people have asked to see more bad movie reviews from me, not because they intend to see the films I review, but because they love it when my blood boils over an extremely bad movie and bad words come out.

So here is a list of the BAD movie reviews and a few general rants I’ve done in my personal journals that I could track down.  There may ( Read more... )

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I struggle with which journal to put movie reviews in. Sometimes they end up here and sometimes they end up in my personal one (especially if I use a lot of curse words to describe the film in question). I think it depends on how artsy-fartsy I get in my interpretation of why I liked or disliked the film, but even that isn't consistent. In ( Read more... )