MOVIE REVIEW: Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark

“Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark,” a remake of a made-for-TV movie from the early 1970s, has a lot of first-rate things working in its favor, wh...

MOVIE REVIEW: The Tree Of Life

I once heard the acclaimed director Martin Scorcese say something quite poetic about Terrence Malick’s 1998 film “The Thin Red Line.” He men...

MOVIE REVIEW: Fright Night

No matter what other people may tell you about me, I walk into every film with an approach similar to everyone else’s in the theater. I want...

MOVIE REVIEW: The Dilemma

Have you ever noticed when there is a scene in a movie that just feels completely out of place with everything else that is going on? Why wa...

A LITTLE PIECE OF HEAVEN: In Waves Of Disparagement

You know what I ain’t really too big on? When people claim that a band or artist they love has “sold out” just because they happened to take...

MOVIE REVIEW: Drive Angry

John Milton (Nicolas Cage) is a madman who busts out of the fiery depths of Hell with intentions to rescue his granddaughter from the clutch...

BRÜTAL SØNG OF THE WEEK: August 14th, 2011

Guess what feature on my blog is one year old today? That’s right, fatty: it’s the BRÜTAL SØNG OF THE WEEK! It began with “Suffocating Sight...

MOVIE REVIEW: 30 Minutes Or Less

“30 Minutes Or Less” is a high-concept action comedy that seems to be loosely associated with a series of real-life events in 2003 that had ...

MOVIE REVIEW: Final Destination 5

“Final Destination 5” is a vile and gruesome horror film, but probably not for the reasons you have come to expect from the franchise. From ...

MOVIE REVIEW: The Help

“The Help” is a pleasant, enjoyable and occasionally heartrending film about a delicate and frankly unflattering time period in America’s so...

MOVIE REVIEW: Crazy, Stupid, Love

Sounding like a promising romantic comedy at first glance considering a plentifully talented cast, “Crazy, Stupid, Love” is only a mildly en...

MOVIE REVIEW: Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes

Because of their common placement as sideshow attractions at the circus and as adorable animal sidekicks in movies, people have a kind of fo...

MOVIE REVIEW: The Change-Up

Is it just me, or is “The Hangover” feeling more and more like a fluke with every fleeting weekend in which an R-rated comedy is released? W...