Month: August 2013
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
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Read more: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)This can’t be happening.
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The Conjuring
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Read more: The ConjuringA greatest hits medley of ghost movie tropes, this may be the finest episode of R. L. Stine’s Goosebumps ever made.
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Maniac (2012)
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Read more: Maniac (2012)Luckily, the film arrives at last the proverbial fireworks factory and ends on the same high note that Lustig and Savini hit three decades ago…
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Assault on Wall Street
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Read more: Assault on Wall StreetUwe Boll, ladies and gentlemen.
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2 Guns: A Movie About 2 Guns
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Read more: 2 Guns: A Movie About 2 GunsWell, yes, the title characters each carry a gun, and so there are 2 guns total carried by the protagonists. Or you could go with the figurative gun, in which case…
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The Village
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Read more: The VillageI will never know for certain how I would have reacted to this film had I remained ignorant of its payoff, but having the information allowed me to understand exactly why it failed.
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The Smurfs 2
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Read more: The Smurfs 2One scene where Jokey Smurf delivers a bomb package to a room full of schoolchildren, remarking that the ‘war for Christian purity is about to begin’ was kind of over the top. Still, the theater could not help but burst into applause when Papa Smurf called Treblinka a ‘Zionist lie’.