It is Written: Slumdog Millionaire is Amazing

British director, Danny Boyle, delivers another heart-touching, emotional film with Slumdog Millionaire. You may remember his film last year, Sunshine, about a team of astronauts who need to re-ignite the sun (sounds far-fetched, but it was well made, and the acting was fantastic). Slumdog takes place in Mumbai, India - which you may recall was unfortunately in the news in late November due to the terrorist / hostage situation in three of their major hotels - telling the tale of how two young brothers from the slums (hence “slumdogs”) “made” it, in their separate ways.... [Read more of this review]

Frost/Nixon Comes up Short

Frost/Nixon is the latest film in the illustrious career of actor / director Ron Howard. Howard is slowly moving his way top the elite directors in Hollywood, but I really think he could have done more with such a powerful story. In my mind, this was an Oscar contender for picture of the year, but the film only showed flashes of brilliance that was not sustained throughout. Frost/Nixon Film Poster Frost/Nixon is a retelling of the true story behind a series of television interviews between David Frost (played by Michael Sheen) and former US president Richard Nixon (played by Frank Langella).... [Read more of this review]

Guilty Pleasures or: IYDTYCEAD - Can’t Hardly Wait

Welcome back. As promised, I’ve got another installment of my guilty pleasures column. My last one, was actually BTH’s inaugural post and can be found here. Well, guilty pleasure #2 is Can’t Hardly Wait, a movie I’ve had a hard on for since ‘98. An example of said hard on can be found in my review for Role Models. Let me just say how off the wall fucken giddy I am about the recently released Blu-Ray version (also available on regular DVD for all you late bloomers, but not on VHS for all you pond scum) of this film. The Blu-Ray Version As long I’ve had my hard... [Read more of this review]

The Darjeeling is Limited, Wes Anderson is not

Wes Anderson is possibly one of the most divisive directors to emerge from the nineties. His 1996 debut, Bottle Rocket, didn’t exactly garner the same acclaim as Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs, but it didn’t turn him into a Troy Duffy either (the ill-fated writer/director of The Boondock Saints who lost favor with Harvey Weinstein and therefore Hollywood as a whole). That being said, the films of Anderson have a tendency to leave audience members either passionate supporters or unimpressed haters. The dichotomy is that it isn’t Anderson himself people get caught up in, it is... [Read more of this review]

Desperately Seeking a Return to 80s New York Decadence

New York in the 1980s is considered perhaps one of the greatest eras in United States history for popular culture. If ever there was a film to encapsulate the uniqueness and kitschy creativity of this period, that film would be none other than Desperately Seeking Susan. Often regarded as a B-movie, in spite of critical and financial success when it was released in 1985, many people fail to see the romanticism and brilliance of Susan Seidelman’s only film triumph. Desperately Seeking Susan Movie Poster In the era that would become known as the decade of excess, something truly magical was happening... [Read more of this review]

Natalya Rudakova + Annoying Love Scenes = Transporter 3

The latest edition in this action series sees Jason Statham and Natalya Rudakova as the lead actors in Transporter 3. If they were going for “super annoying bitch” when they cast Rudakova, then they were spot on. Before I give a brief overview of the movie, and then proceed to tear into it, I should add that I enjoyed the first two Transporter movies, and knew exactly what I was getting myself into when I paid my 12 bucks to see it. I cannot stress enough how brief my plot summary will be, because I am just so excited at telling you exactly why Transporter 3 sucked extremely large... [Read more of this review]

Four Christmases was One Christmas too Long

Went to check out Four Christmases with Lenny, which is a romantic comedy starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon. Don’t ask me why Robert Duvall and Jon Voight were in this movie other than an easy paycheck. The plot is very simple, and would lend itself to funny if there was a tad bit more comedy, and a tad bit less romantic. Even if you are gay for Vaughn, as I am, you will walk away disappointed. Certainly not his finest hour - about on par with The Break-Up but Witherspoon was not as good as Jennifer Aniston. I’d say Witherspoon was about as good as she was in Legally... [Read more of this review]

Picture Me Role’ing

I finally caught Role Models starring Paul Rudd, Sean William Scott, and Elizabeth Banks the other day. I’m lagging, I know. Anyway, if you’re looking for a review, you ain’t gonna find one here, but RMTC did a superb job reviewing it and you can find that review here. So I’m not really even gonna bother… Fuck All Y'all Motherfuckers! Instead I’m gonna talk (translation = rant) about my lame ass movie going experience. Before I go any further, I’d like to make 2 points clear. First, regarding the title of this article…I can’t help it, but ever... [Read more of this review]

“Twilight” Misses the Mark — Er, Vein

Dear Catherine Hardwicke, Summit Entertainment, and Whom It May Concern: You fucking fail me. I was going to shrug this off as one of them “the book was better” humdingers, but a couple bottles of wine and two days later, I am angry as Hades. That said, I’m gonna go ahead and make the assumption that you have failed every 13-17 year old female Hot Topic-obsessed Twilight fangirl who stayed awake late at night painting the ideal portrait of the book saga into their own fragile minds. Vulnerable, we waited with our “TEAM EDWARD” and “TEAM JACOB” shirts and... [Read more of this review]

Mayor of Castro Street

Milk tells the true story of of the political career and influence of the first gay man to hold a high position in government, Harvey Milk. The film stars Sean Penn, who plays Harvey Milk, with supporting roles from James Franco, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna and Alison Pill. We travel back to the 1970s to see how Milk influenced the gay movement both in California and the entire country. Milk was easily the best film of the year so far, and unless Frost/Nixon blows it out of the water, it will more than likely win best picture of the year. If you are not a big time movie goer, you... [Read more of this review]

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