GOD OF WAR III Review

Mar. 28 | Very easily, I could have wrote this review before playing God of War III. Excitement has a way of blinding us to faults (which this game has some that aren’t even worth arguing over) and clouding judgement of what a game really is. It happened to...

When A Forthcoming Horror Remake Becomes An Exciting Proposition: ‘Let Me In’

Mar. 17 | Call me crazy, but I’m starting to warm up to the once-infuriating Let Me In, the American remake of Swedish director Tomas Alfredson’s 2008 gemstone Let the Right One In, a creepy yet elegant meditation on a 12-year-old female vampire,...

St. Patrick’s Day Special: 7 Irish Movies to Get Punched in the Face By

Mar. 15 | This Wednesday is St. Patrick’s Day, meaning that sometime between hump day and the end of the week, our nation and large portions of the world’s Irish populous will explode in a drunken green frenzy the likes of which we’ve never seen...

The Top 10 Opening Credit Sequences of All Time

Mar. 13 | I’m not sure that most casual moviegoers understand the impact of a good opening credit sequence. While I’m as guilty as the next guy of wanting to get to the meaty part of a film, opening credits do many things besides credit the filmmakers. The...

AUDIO REVIEWS – GREEN ZONE, OUR FAMILY WEDDING, & SHE’S OUT OF MY LEAGUE

Mar. 12 | Here’s the deal; as I started recording my audio review for Green Zone, Mr. Nose (that’s that big schnoz on the front of my face) decided it wanted to bleed like Mount Vesuvius and everything in it’s path (including my clothes) were...

BREATHLESS To Return To Theaters

Mar. 11 | (Via Criterion) If one has never seen Breathless, they need to seriously re-consider their affection for cinema. The film is stroke of artistic genius and easily one of the very select few that belongs in the conversation with Citizen Kane as the most...

TRON LEGACY Continues To Get Viral

Mar. 11 | If you ask me, there’s only two films that matter this year. One is just a little over a month away and is about a boy who follows his dreams of being a superhero, only to discover he isn’t very good at it. The other is about another boy’s...

82nd Oscars Thoughts and Ramblings

Mar. 8 | Summit did not pay me off, nor was I encouraged by anyone on their staff to love The Hurt Locker. The fact is, I admire the work Kathryn Bigelow and company did on the film and am happy Bigelow’s talents have finally been fully realized. She has...

Are The Oscars Liberal? We’ll Plug And Find Out

Mar. 6 | Oscar is upon us and after tomorrow night I’ll riot the streets and demand the Academy Board members have their first-born children be strung up on Hollywood Boulevard by their heels while film fans around the world stone them. Or not, pending...

Get Down With This Two-Sided Sickness

Feb. 26 | As impressive as the film’s trailers and television spots have been, The Crazies (opening nationwide this weekend) has an inherent flaw, one that critics and casual moviegoers alike have been quick to point out. The been-done-to-death “infected,...