Movies to See Before the World Ends: Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
The Mayans, the wise race of ancients who created hot cocoa, set December 21st, 2012 as the end date of their Calendar, which the intelligent and logical amongst us know signifies the day the world...
View ArticleReel Sex: The Top 14 Most Romantic Movie Scenes: Part One
As we approach Valentine’s Day (yes, it’s just a few weeks away) I think it’s only fitting that the topic of romance come into play in anticipation of the day meant to celebrate all things feelings....
View ArticleShort Film Of The Day: Disney’s ‘Flowers and Trees,’ The First Best Animated...
Why Watch? Short films weren’t honored at the first Academy Awards in 1929, but it didn’t take long for them to be added to the docket. After all, the film industry owes its origins to short work...
View Article‘Atlas Shrugged’ Sequel Will Officially Hunt Down John Galt
Normally the blue birds that deliver the mail sing a song as they fly along, but today they seemed grim and despondent. Perhaps it’s because they had to drop the lump of coal that is the press release...
View ArticleSBIFF Review: Delightful ‘Jiro Dreams of Sushi’ Will Make Audiences Hungry...
I love sushi. Not just the taste, but the overall experience. For me, sushi is an event – there is ceremony, pageantry, and tradition that I love and respect but know is beyond me historically. It is...
View Article‘Brake’ Trailer: Stephen Dorff Stars in Apparent ‘Buried’ and ‘Saw’ Hybrid
If you made it through Buried without the assistance of prescription drugs and found yourself thinking afterwards, “damn, I’d love to see another thriller that involves a dude, a box, a mission, and a...
View ArticleReview: ‘The Woman in Black’ Is a Good, Old-Fashioned Ghost Story
People love a good scary story and some of the oldest tales on record are stories of ghosts, spirits, and specters cursed to walk the earth haunting the living and wreaking havoc as revenge for some...
View ArticleScarlett Johansson and Mark Ruffalo to Ask ‘Can a Song Save Your Life?’
Actors Scarlett Johansson and Mark Ruffalo are already set to tear apart city blocks together as members of The Avengers this summer, so why shouldn’t they be in a love story together as well? Sounds...
View ArticleKevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card: February 3, 2012
This week, Fat Guy Kevin Carr heads out to the drab English countryside to settle a woman’s estate only to find the place haunted. Fortunately, Kevin had already crawled down a mysterious hole and...
View ArticleBonus Weekly DVD Drinking Game: Texas Killing Fields
With the weekend here and most DVD and Blu-rays hitting the shelves on Tuesday, you might have already checked out our weekly drinking game for The Thing. If you want another chance – or another...
View ArticleWill Katherine Heigl Investigate ‘The Happytime Murders’?
Way back in 2008, the Jim Henson Co. picked up a spec script from Todd Berger that took a standard Muppet trope (a world where people and puppets co-exist and no one thinks it’s weird), turned it on...
View ArticleTexas, ‘Comin’ at Ya!’ Is Coming At You! Now Watch The Trailer In Preparation
Do you like insane spaghetti Westerns? Of course you do, your eyeballs work. But I can personally guarantee that you have not seen anything until you seen an insane spaghetti Western…in 3D! During...
View ArticleChannel Guide: 6 Reasons Why You Should Watch ‘Puppy Bowl VIII’ Instead of...
Man, of all the bowls, the Super Bowl is probably the most egotistical. Super Bowl? Pshaw. More like the Not-Super Bowl. Yeah, I said it. First played in 1967, the Super Bowl was the brainchild of...
View ArticleJunkfood Cinema: Scream Blacula Scream
Welcome back to Junkfood Cinema; the jiveness of our turkey is a byproduct of its being deep-vat chocolate-fried. Welcome friends, to the mean streets of Schlocksburgh. Every week, we pick on some...
View ArticleInterview: Joe Carnahan Talks Mortality, Real Men, and ‘The Grey’
The first reaction of anyone coming out of The Grey probably won’t be, “I bet the director of The A-Team, Smokin’ Aces, and that BMW short Ticker made this!” Joe Carnahan prefers it to be that way....
View ArticleSuper Bowl Ad for ‘The Avengers’ Suggests This May Just Be the Sleeper Hit of...
I tease of course. The Avengers is almost guaranteed to be a gigantic hit this summer and probably one of the year’s highest grossers. The film has a built-in audience by virtue of its characters,...
View ArticleSuper Bowl Ad for ‘Battleship’ Shows Rihanna Go Boom
Director Peter Berg is making his bid for A-level status (box office-wise) this summer with an adaptation of the Hasbro game Battleship. That, by the way, is a complete misuse of the term ‘adaptation’...
View ArticleHarrison Ford Might Be Back for ‘Blade Runner’
As if it were 1982 all over again, Harrison Ford is in talks to star in Blade Runner. According to Twitch Film, Ford is in the early stages of discussing the possibility – meaning that it could be a...
View ArticleBoiling Point: More Blu-ray Special Features Going “Full Special”
I’ve got a bit of an obsessive compulsive issue when it comes to DVDs and Blu-rays. I’m one of those suckers who will get caught every so often in a double-dip if I’m not paying attention. If I am...
View ArticleShort Film Of The Day: A Symphony Visualized as a Roller Coaster
Why Watch? Brilliant concept, thrilling execution. This stunning animation from virtual republic takes the sheet music for the 1st violin of the 2nd symphony, 4th movement by Ferdinand Ries and...
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