Category: Rants
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The Top 10 Hollywood Tropes: They need to go Edition
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Read more: The Top 10 Hollywood Tropes: They need to go EditionThe cheap platitudes of Hollywood have warped popular perception so completely that many who read this will be shocked that ANYONE could possibly disagree.
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Darwin’s Nightmare (2004)
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Read more: Darwin’s Nightmare (2004)When the free market is law, abandon all hope. Darwin’s Nightmare, Hubert Sauper’s new documentary, is so punishing in its bleakness, in fact, that it acts as a white flag for all further endeavors
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Cheaper By the Dozen (2003)
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Read more: Cheaper By the Dozen (2003)Cheaper by the Dozen is easily the most militantly offensive, pro-family horror show I have seen this year.
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Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s Temple
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Read more: Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s TempleJim Jones — preacher, con man, pervert, and, ultimately, instigator of mass murder/suicide — is not the sort of man I fear as I close my eyes.
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Sharkwater (2006)
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Read more: Sharkwater (2006)Tigers are killed for their penises so that pathologically insecure gentlemen might tap into some mystical power of seduction…
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Indiana Jones: Bullwhip for the White American Male
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Read more: Indiana Jones: Bullwhip for the White American MaleAmerican heroes, past and present, are usually defined by their rugged, can-do spirit; a reluctance to play the champion, sure, but once engaged, feisty, never-say-die creatures of indomitable certainty
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Russian Ark (2002)
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Read more: Russian Ark (2002)95 minute unbroken shot Russian film. Breathtaking Beauty. The Results? Empty theaters, indifference, deathly silence.
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Black History Month Special: How you duuurrrn!– a black man in a dress is not the bellwether of conspiracy…unless it is.
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Read more: Black History Month Special: How you duuurrrn!– a black man in a dress is not the bellwether of conspiracy…unless it is.Publicity still from Wypipo Tryna Roto-rooter Mama’s Back-do’ on the Down-low: Madea’s Colonoscopy scheduled for release Summer ’25. Okay, so Hollywood is choked with faegelen who creepily ogle black men like they would a turquoise broach once worn by Bette Davis. Okay, so what if Hollywood is run by Jews whose reputation for a) a…
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A Few More Ruthless Villains: 80’s Action Edition
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Read more: A Few More Ruthless Villains: 80’s Action EditionA Few Ruthless Movie Villains is a popular article that I wrote a few years ago. Time flies, and it is now past time to honor some more unsavory bad guys, this time, 80’s Action style. I will concentrate on the attributes or tags of villain, bully, and sheer nastiness. Most of the movies are…
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Top 10 Romantic Movies that won’t make you want to shoot up your local Ann Taylor
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Read more: Top 10 Romantic Movies that won’t make you want to shoot up your local Ann TaylorAll movies have a love story—I don’t say that in vain, in college I had two screenwriting professors (both working, agented and credited) who hammered the point home “Every movie has a love story—remember that, Mr. Cobb.” “I understand.” “Do you? Because I’m sixty pages into your college-student-with-a-shotgun script and I haven’t detected a note…