I Say iTunes Store Rankings are Rigged

It was just hours ago that I stared, disgusted, at my TV as Comcast’s OnDemand service pelted me with ad after ad for their newest pay-per-view offering, the Matthew McConaughey-Kate Hudson crapfest Fool’s Gold. I found this disgusting because of all the fantastic movies in the world Comcast could promote, they were wasting time on this [...]

“Zorro 2110″… Coming to Theaters?

If handed the task, I’m not sure I’d ever come up with a better title for a film than did the makers of Zorro 2110. I haven’t been able to stop whispering it to myself since I discovered it on one of those long, circuitous jaunts through the hyperlinks of IMDB.
The film’s future is apparently [...]

Negadon: The Monster From Mars

If a tribute manages to be better than its inspiration, is it still a tribute? Or has it become something else entirely? Negadon: The Monster From Mars, a twenty-minute film released recently on DVD, is an homage to ’60s-era Japanese monster classics like Godzilla and Ultraman, but it ultimately becomes a more convincing endorsement for [...]

The Island

I just watched The Island on HBO, but this wasn’t the first time I’d seen it. I actually saw it in the theater a year ago. It piqued my interest because it sported something unusual for a Michael Bay film: a smattering of positive reviews. This struck me as odd, because Michael Bay (Bad Boys [...]

Good Movies

Lists have never been more popular. VH1 and E! showcase programs like The Top Forty Celebrity Embarrassments and Awesomely Bad Hair, and we all sit glued to the TV like idiots just dying to find out who made it to number one. And you know that when the lists turn to something important like music [...]

Spider-Man 3

I wish I could get excited about this movie. Spider-Man 2 was good to the point that it obviated the need for any further sequels. I wouldn’t mind being proven wrong, but what more is there to say?