This is the front-runner for worst film of the year (it came out in the US in 2008). The notorious Uwe Boll is at it again. He is called this generation’s Ed Wood. Both directors made awful films but thought them to be brilliant. They were delusional, sad men. The only difference is that I […]

Sort of.
I’ve always dreamed of making a movie with Chevy Chase. And this morning, that dream came true.
Sort of.
My friend Mark was kind enough to bring me along to Chevy’s house, where I operated the boom on a video taping. So, technically, my dream came true. I’ll write more about it when the video is […]

Halle Berry’s Oscar hopeful from last year came out just prior to award season and bombed. It got mixed reviews and nobody went to see it. It was quickly forgotten. Which is a shame, because it’s not bad. It’s an effective drama with solid work from Berry, Benicio Del Toro, and even David Duchovny, who […]

Last week I had the opportunity to meet a living legend: Gene Hackman. Hackman hasn’t really been in the spotlight lately. He retired from acting - his last film being Welcome to Mooseport from 2004 - and now spends his time writing novels with his neighbor, Daniel Lenihan.
Their third novel, Escape From Andersonville, is now […]

I saw two films at the Tribeca film festival, and this was the first. It’s a historical epic from China based on a book that’s been popular over there for hundreds of years. There’s lots of action - some of it cool, some of it silly - and it was great to see Sammo Hung […]

This was one of the few films of 2007 that I really wanted to see in the theater but somehow missed. I really don’t know what to write about it. I liked it a lot, but part of it made me want to dislike it right after I started it. Why? It’s your typical indie […]

I knew this was going to be shitty. When I first saw the trailer, I knew I was going to be disappointed. When it was first announced even, I knew I wouldn’t like it. And when I popped it into the DVD player (or blu-ray, I guess) recently, I knew that I wasn’t going to […]

It was a bit of a stretch to see a whole town go along and pretend that Lars’ doll was a real person, but the charm of Lars, his brother and his sister-in-law doesn’t wear off. Lars turns into an asshole after a while, acting as if his doll was offended by certain words or […]

This was such a surprise. It’s a bit sad that good, old-fashioned, character-driven, family-oriented comedies - the ones we used to see in theaters all the time 15-20 years ago - have almost completely disappeared. Instead, we get quirky independent comedy dramas, silly goofball comedies, kids movies, big-budget TV show remakes, or one-note concept films. […]

I love dark, gritty cop dramas, but the genre might have run out of steam. There was a resurgence a few years ago with a number of stylish new films that didn’t shy away from violence and showed both good and bad cops. But after films like Traffic, Narc, Dark Blue and Training Day coming […]

The spaghetti western is one of my favorite sub-genres, and my favorite spaghetti westerns are the ones that have American stars. Back in the 60s and 70s, for James Coburn, Henry Fonda or Charles Bronson to go to Italy to headline a cheap Italian film (western, cop movie, horror film) must have been like Stallone, […]

A snore of a movie. The film consists of three stories. One features Meryl Streep as a journalist interviewing senator Tom Cruise in his office. It takes place almost entirely in the senator’s office. The other story focuses on professor Robert Redford who is meeting with one of his students. That story takes place almost […]

This is a Cannon sci-fi thriller that I had never heard much about… until now. I saw that it was on Universal HD, so I recorded it. It’s Cannon, how can I live a full life without having seen it? I was surprised how good the film looked. The effects must have cost a fortune, […]

Tony Kaye (American History X) goes on a bit too long (2 1/2 hours) in his (mostly) unbiased documentary about abortion. Kaye also puts too much focus on fundamentalist Pro-Life activism, which gave me the feeling that that side of the spectrum wasn’t represented very accurately. The documentary has plenty of disturbing aborted baby film […]