This may be the first movie in this series to really, truly earn the "no nutritional value" nomenclature, seeing as saccharin is an artificial, zero-calorie sweetener and romantic "comedies" never seem to be sweetened with anything else.

Leap Year is a movie I remembered only after I started watching it. What I remembered was a review--either in ( Read more... )

Because Netflix threatened to remove it from my Watch It Now queue today, I watched Weekend at Bernie's last night.

Why, other than the fact it's expiring on my queue, would I watch this? Well, curiosity for one thing--Weekend at Bernie's seems to be a movie that lots of people reference but few have actually seen. Also, 1980s screwball comedies ( Read more... )

Of course, I object on principle to any movie that makes any zombie seem sympathetic in any way. However, My Boyfriend's Back is worth a view, not because the zombie lead is sympathetic but because his family, friends, and neighbors are surprisingly unaffected by his refusal to stay dead. The entire-town-is-indifferent-to-the-monster-in-their-midst ( Read more... )

I feel sort of bad equating a documentary with a C-level tween vampire flick from the 1980s, but Constantine's Sword is (pardon the pun) so toothless and obvious as to be the documentary equivalent of unflavored rice cakes. Documentaries can be calorie-free, too ( Read more... )

I was relating to people only this past weekend how I had, at that point, watched as many movies as there were days in the year, and how my ambition is to, one day, become such a couch potato that I do watch 365 movies in the space of a year. Consequently, it was pointed out to me that it would be much easier to do that by watching mostly terrible ( Read more... )