Not too long ago, I rented both movies that recently came out that dealt with the mystery of the 9th Legion and how they disappeared.  Centurion was bizarrely anachronistic, but fun, and The Eagle was...well, not really fun, but at least it had a pretty decent sense of pacing and drama.

So, having mostly enjoyed myself, I decided to give The Last ( Read more... )

Anyone who has ever seen a sports movie could predict before popping the disk in what would happen in Warrior.  There is no mystery here.  There is nothing interesting about this movie.  Everyone who is reading this has probably worked out the whole plot of the film from the poster already (especially anyone who's ever seen Rocky).

It does not ( Read more... )

So Gina Carano is going to be in In the Blood, directed by the guy who made the utterly dreadful movies known as Into the Blue, Turistas and innumerable direct-to-DVD fare.  The plot of the movie is that Carano is a woman on vacation with her husband in the Caribbean, and he disappears in suspicious circumstances, and Carano goes on an ass-kicking ( Read more... )

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So...it's Escape From New York combined with Taken...in space.

Fucking sold.  Let's go!

From Cracked's Top 8 Movies of 2011:

"The first four movies didn't make sense in the insulting way a dumb person doesn't make sense when trying to talk their way out of a speeding ticket. Fast Five didn't make sense in the awesome way that Wu-Tang Clan lyrics don't even try to make sense. The first four movies failed to ask the all-important ( Read more... )

Saw Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows yesterday with bigscary and negativeq.  Really, really enjoyed it, just all in all far surperior to the first one.

It was kind of like X-Men 2.  The first movie was purely for character setup, and that it's out of the way, it's full tilt for fun, action, and breathless set-pieces.

There was even a little more on-screen detecting ( Read more... )

So it's been 2 years since it came out at the IFC, but I missed it then, so I finally got around to watching The Good, The Bad, The Weird, a korean action-comedy-homage to Sergio Leone in particular and Spaghetti Westerns in general.  It shouldn't be much of a surprise to anyone that I'm very fond of Spaghetti Westerns.  They're the original summer ( Read more... )

Little Shop of Horrors
Genre: SF/Horror Musical
Director: Frank Oz, 1986
Songs by: Alan Menken
Starring: Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, and a huge cast of SNL Alums
TL;DR: Okay, okay, not strictly speaking a horror film, not even a horror musical really, but the space-born mutant plants eating people would seem to be close enough.  The puppetry is jaw- ( Read more... )

R-point
Genre: War Horror/Ghost Story
Director: Su-chang Kong, 2004
Starring: If you're not a serious K-films fan, you'll have no clue who these guys are
TL;DR: An excellent addition to the "War is Hell...now with demons" genre.  Tight, creepy, and atmospheric.
Note: Film is in Korean, with english subtitles.

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Tucker & Dale vs Evil
Genre: Hillbilly Horror Spoof Parody
Director: Eli Craig, 2010 (released in 2011)
Starring: Wash, some Canadian actor who is in lots of things, and Cerie from 30 Rock
TL;DR: Everything in the trailer is still really funny watching the actual movie, but there's not much left.

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