[I waited four weeks to put up this review because there are spoilers, and I figure after a month no one will care…if they ever did] The new movie Sanctum is about a team of Australian cave divers who get trapped in a cave during a monsoon and get picked off one by one by various…
Category: Monday Morning Movie Reviewer
Big Momma’s House 3, because We Just Didn’t Get Enough Fat Black Lady Jokes in the First Two
This movie sucks. What Works: lol What Doesn’t: From the opening credits to the music video ending this movie is a racist, sexist train wreck. Everything from every white male character being a villain or sleaze bag to the tired stereotype that the scariest thing on the planet is a fat, angry black woman (Big…
The Mechanic’s Gun Love
Remember all that talk (for about five minutes) post-Tucson shooting that maybe Hollywood movies project an image of violence too readily to young men? The conversation was even more halfhearted than the gun control debate where people mentioned it might be okay if people aren’t allowed to buy assault weapons, and then dropped it by…
Just Go With It…or Don’t, Boycott this Excuse for Adam Sandler to go on Vacation
Only a week after I mentioned Adam Sandler’s great, angry work in the underappreciated film Funny People, I watch the stink bomb Just Go with It. This week is morality week here on Alabama Liberal, and if Hollywood loves violence (The Mechanic) and mocking fat black women (Big Momma’s House), then they also love lazy,…
Finally in Bumblefuck Part Two: Blue Valentine is Greeted with a Shoulder Shrug in Alabama
As I identified last week in my review of 127 Hours, some movies in limited release take a while to get to Alabama. Some movies never come, and some wish they never had. Blue Valentine might be an example of the latter. I’ll start by saying I like this prickly, difficult film about a young…
No Strings Attached Vs. Season of the Witch: When a Sincere Dud is Judged More Harshly Than an Ironic One
First off let me acknowledge that I am waaay behind the eight ball in reviewing these films about a month after their release. I saw both of them before the blog was started and I figured, hell, if I had to sit through both of these movies the least I could do is write a…
Country Strong: An Attempt to Play to the Rural Seats is as Boring and Sanitized as Contemporary Country Music
Most Hollywood movies are made in cities by people who live in cities for people that will watch them in cities, but every once and a while an attempt comes along to capitalize on an audience usually ignored: the 75 percent of the country classified as a fly over state. Movies like The Passion of…
Finally in Bumblefuck: 127 Hours comes to Alabama and it only took 127 Days
Finally in Bumblefuck: 127 Hours comes to Alabama and it only took 127 Days In the last two months of the year, Hollywood releases a cluster of quality films in an attempt to keep them fresh in voter’s minds for Oscar Season. These movies roll out in New York and Los Angeles, then expand to…