I think at this point it’s safe to say that I watch Rob Zombie’s movies because of The Devil’s Rejects. That film, for all of its terrible sleaziness, was really, really well made. You can argue the merits of its message, the idea of who the heroes are, but you can’t argue that Zombie had …
Remakes of cult films have a tough sell. In the hearts and minds of those whose almost-daily conversational lexicon include references like, “This is my boomstick!” or “Lady, I’m afraid I’m going to have to ask you to leave the store” or “Workshed”, it’s an uphill battle to convince them that your remake is either …
Liam Neeson: unlikely action star or unlikeliest action star? At some point in the not too distant past, Hollywood decided that Oskar Schindler would be a pretty good candidate to drive a car backwards through the streets of various European locales while shooting guns or evading bad guys. And so, we have Neeson starring in …
Revenge may be a dish best served cold, but what if that dish never ultimately satisfies you? South Korea-import I Saw the Devil, a film centered on a man who believes that closure for the murder of his fiancé can only come by tormenting and torturing her killer, plays with that question in a very …
I walked into viewing season 1 of Veronica Mars with very little background on the show. Outside of knowing that it was a UPN/CW show, that it starred Kristen Bell, and that it seemed to have a pretty solid Internet following, I had nothing on the show. (I believe, “Is that the show where she …
Sherlock Holmes has become almost something of a cliché. The deerstalker hat, the pipe, the “Elementary, my dear Watson”, the versions and revisions of the character and the stories have, over the years, greatly reduced the character from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s great scientific mind to something that passively conjures up a few of the …
By all accounts, Paranormal Activity and (even more so) Paranormal Activity 2 should be Hollywood clunkers that cause us all to lament the death of the horror genre as we know it. Two films that rely on Dolby scares to freak out the film’s protagonists who spend each film’s length splitting up (“Jesus, stay together!”), …
You’ll have to forgive me ahead of time, as this write-up may turn out to be just a mental meandering as I try to come up with a rationale for why what I just watched exists. It’s hard to find a flaw with Matt Reeves’ 2010 film, Let Me In. It’s beautifully shot, the atmosphere …
I was excited at the prospect of dusting off my Lonely Reviewer cap and jumping into the fray again by discussing this year’s top Oscar nominees and my predictions and hopefuls. If you’re going to make a triumphant return, why not dive back in during one of film’s busiest, buzziest times? Then I got the list of nominees …
It’s sometimes hard to be a fan of big movies. In many cases, you end up being an apologist for popcorn flicks when you say things like, “It’s ok to turn your brain off and enjoy the flashing pictures for 2 hours.” You not only sound like an idiot who’s cool with letting the light …