You people giving The Room half a star and being like "how could a movie possibly be any worse?" You haven't even begun to gaze into the abyss.
I like my bad movies looking like they were found in a box that was home to a family of possums living under a leaky sink at a drive-in that's been closed for 40 years.
I like my bad movies to have a musical score that sounds like a cheap bootleg of…
If ever I'm in a coma and you can't reach me, play some of Bill Conti's score for the Rocky series (Conquest might work best). That about illustrates how deeply Rocky resonates with me, and a lot of other people.
Poverty. Illness. Discrimination. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Rocky speaks past those battles to the deepest part of each of us, the part which may sometimes be beaten but refuses to be defeated. And…
I know this David Lynch short was filmed as part of a series by different directors to celebrate the tenth anniversary of France's Le Figaro Magazine, but I really want to pretend this was a TV pilot for what would have been one of the weirdest shows ever. It's a funny commentary on stereotypes with a language barrier that makes you feel like you're only in on half the joke (but that in its way is the whole joke).
Coming…
The very first shot of Jim and Andy is of a now gray-bearded 55-year-old Jim Carrey, and it feels like he's playing a character. Is this Old Jim we're seeing? Or Documentary Jim? Or are we just so used to Some Character Jim that we don't recognize the real him when we see it? Or even more disconcerting: did Real Jim get tossed aside somewhere along the road to the fame he now enjoys, possibly lost in the funhouse that…
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While it was a moderate success at the box office ($24 million domestically on a budget of $10 mil), it was the soundtrack for 1995's Dead Presidents that was a major hit, getting certified gold about three months after its initial release.
The soundtrack is one of the best of its kind, an amazing mix of some of the greatest, funkiest grooves ever committed to vinyl by the likes of James Brown, Isaac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield,…
The 2019 Cult Movie Challenge
Week 3: Anime Week
Wait a minute, let's see if I got this: a guy has some crazy-ass gangster just randomly stick a gun up his ass in a restaurant (no, really) so the dude grabs the gun with his ass and immediately opens fire thereby killing the gangster, he then grabs his longtime crush and her sister and runs off to hide inside of a whale where this old man happens to be chillin',…
Steven Spielberg didn't see what the big deal was about having JoBeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson as the Freeling parents smoke pot in Poltergeist (1982). For him that was just what California parents around a certain age did. I'm pretty sure Spielberg casually mentioned at some point that he was getting high up in the hills of California and looking down at the city below when he thought up the mothership from the end of Close Encounters. What I'm…
Sam Raimi was all of 20 when he and his friends made The Evil Dead, a hodge-podge of fresh, inspired ideas and callbacks to a string of then-recent (but now classic) Horror films. Now I can't say for certain just how much these other films were rolling around in Raimi's noggin when he made his debut feature, but right from the get-go the familiarity is there to be seen on the screen. The film opens like The Shining but down…
There's a scene at the beginning of The Longest Yard where Burt Reynolds' character of a disgraced pro football player is in a bar getting sloppy(er) drunk after leading the cops on an insane high speed chase in a car he just stole from his wealthy socialite girlfriend because he's tired of being her puppet boy-toy. The cops come in to drag his ass to jail, and yet neither them or the bartender can contain their amusement with the no-fucks-given…
Colorful, nonsensical, and bursting with cats, Dario Argento's Inferno made almost no sense to me while I was watching it, and then when the twist ending came that was supposed to explain everything, it was too late; the boat had left long ago and I wasn't on it, and being told by someone that the boat I'd just missed was in fact named "Inferno" did little to help me. But fortunately I guess it was still pretty entertaining watching it…
The greatest strength and the greatest weakness of The Endless Summer both hinge on the exact same thing: the film's young director Bruce Brown, who also narrates this trip around the world chasing the summer season with a California accent reminiscent of a young Tim Matheson.
So if you're going to sit and watch a surfing documentary, you might as well watch one by a talented kid in his 20s who is a surfer himself, a guy so dedicated to…