Brooklyn’s Finest, Antoine Fuqua’s latest down and dirty cop drama, opens with a line of dialogue that went something like “There’s right and wrong.  Then, there’s righter and wronger.”  The film tries to explore this theory, but in the end it’s just too boring for me to care about ethics or morals or anything other [...]

This time of year, there are a lot of Oscar predictions, but I don’t follow many other awards shows, nor do I keep up with a lot of the inside gossip.  I did read an interesting NY Times article describing the hysteria around the race for an Academy Award, but in the end I don’t [...]

Life and laziness sort of got in the way, but I’ve finally made my Top Ten of 2009 list and SPOILER alert—Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will not be making the list.
I should mention the five Oscar-nominated films that I haven’t seen yet.  These are my unseen also-rans (“never-rans?”)—condolences to Il Divo (1), The Imaginarium [...]

Man—life really got in the way… It’s already February and I still haven’t finished my Top Disappointments & Surprises or Top 10 Films of 2009…  Better bang this post out tonight (without pics) so that I can focus on that Top 10 list….
Five Disappointments
Public Enemies
Michael Mann directing Depp, Bale, Cotillard, Crudup, Ribisi, et al should [...]

When you see practically every movie that comes out in theaters like I do (for the complete list see my previous blog), you end up seeing a lot of crap.  Some people ask me why I subject myself to pieces of crap like Knowing, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Land of the Lost, 12 Rounds, Bride [...]

Another year has come and gone and I haven’t posted a single sodblog… Luckily, the people who run this site didn’t destroy my username and password, so I’m back to write about the best (and worst) of 2009.
However, I don’t keep a top ten list as I watch everything throughout the year… so I’m stuck [...]

A lot of people have been unfairly comparing Kevin Smith’s latest film, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, to Judd Apatow’s films, but didn’t Smith work in the raunchy-yet-sweet genre years before Apatow hit it big with films like Clerks, Mallrats and Chasing Amy?  Couldn’t it be argued that Apatow took the Smith equation [...]

I’ve enjoyed Brad Anderson’s previous work–the sci-fi rom-com Happy Accidents stars Vincent D’Onofrio & Marisa Tomei as love interests and The Machinist stars an anorexic, neurotic Batman; both are excellent films.  His latest, Transsiberian, is a thriller that follows an American couple as they travel from China to Moscow and meet some shady people on [...]

Eddie Murphy’s Meet Dave comes out today… You may have been unfortunate enough to see the trailers–something about tiny aliens landing on Earth and trying to learn about humanity by going around in a human-sized robot.  Both the head alien and the robot are played by Eddie Murphy.  Murphy seems to be double cast without [...]

Has it really been more than a decade since Will Smith first watched us all respond to his first July 4 bomb? Independence Day, and by extension Will Smith, sort of began the huge July 4 action blockbuster tradition.  Opening weekend numbers since ID4 (which earned $50.2MM) have been mixed–Men In Black earned $51.1; [...]