Every summer brings at least one movie that’s not a sequel, prequel, three-quel, or based on a videogame/superhero comic/youtube video. And it’s that one film that has an ounce of mystery that’s usually the best (like Inception last year or Tropic Thunder a couple years back). Not that I have anything against excellent sequels like…
Category: Mindless Mondays
The Pretty Good (X-Men: First Class)
Let’s start this review off by saying X-Men: First Class is completely unnecessary…but it’s also pretty good. What Works: Well first off, the hotness of the cast is completely unexpected as the other X-Men movies usually only had Halle Berry or Dania Ramirez in small roles. January Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, and a scorching Zoe Kravitz…
& The Ugly (The Hangover II)
[Spoilers…but if you’ve seen the first film, this one is already spoiled] You know how every summer is filled with superheroes (Thor, Captain America, The Green Lantern, and X-Men: First Class) and unnecessary sequels (Pirates 4, Trashformers 3, Cars 2, and…well, X-Men: First Class)? Well Hangover II is absolutely unnecessary, more than unnecessary, it’s a…
TV Review: Game of Thrones
After intense, almost deafening speculation, HBO’s Game of Thrones finally arrived in April and will see the end of its first, ten-episode season this Sunday. I can safely say the show is neither a massive disappointment nor wildly successful, instead falling somewhere in the middle. The BEGINNING of the show felt more like the end…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Tree of Life
Man I feel sorry for the big league critics that actually get paid to write reviews and have some expectation people will read them…wait, no I don’t. I’d love to be those guys. However, I will say that every once and a while a movie comes along that is so hard to review, I’m stumped…
TV Review: Treme, TV’s Most Improved Show
As one of the first fans of HBO’s cult hit The Wire–I watched the first season on HBO before the show became a smash on DVD–I could not have been looking more forward to Wire creator David Simon’s followup Treme. I was hoping he would do for the South what he did for Baltimore: a…
Mom Jokes, Resending the Best Joke My Mom Emailed Me Last Week
Quick Hits, Daddy Issues A boy walks into the room his father is reading the newspaper in. He says “Dad, I want to be in organized crime when I get older.” The dad says “Health insurance or oil?” A boy asked his father “Where do babies come from?” Confused and unsure how to answer it,…
Entertainment Editorial: The Summer Movies I’m Looking Forward to (and the Not-so-Much List)
[This is already sort of an out of the gate bust, as I’ve seen two of these movies since I originally made this list. Oh well…] 5. Cowboys and Indians: The only big budget Summer blockbuster that looks like it has a shred of originality. This matchup of Western and Sci-fi might be terrible but…
Kung Fu Panda 2, For Those Who Like Good Movies
I really, really liked this movie. You can try to shame me or make me feel embarrassed that a guy who just turned 25 is still into kid films, but it’s a guilty pleasure, only in my case, there’s not much guilt. What Works: Everything. Seriously, the animation, the fight scenes, the villain, the mysticism…
Insidious, For Those Who Like Shitting Their Pants
I have to admit and make fun of me if you want to, but for a PG-13 horror movie, this thing is pretty scary. It’s not bloody or grotesque (at least not for the most part) but from the opening black and white credits you can tell this is a movie that aims to seriously…
Pirates of the Caribbean 4, For Those Who Hate Their Money
I’m sorry, but this franchise needs to die. Once was good, twice was not so good, three times was enough, and four times just feels like Johnny Depp is being a greedy bastard. [The official subtitle to this movie is “On Stranger Tides” but it should be “Depp needs a new mansion.”] I didn’t have…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Everything Must Go, For Those Who Like Ferrell
After years of movies that either underplayed his talents (Step Brothers) or over played them, asking him to trot out the same old blowhard shtick (Semi-Pro), Will Ferrell struck comedy gold last year in The Other Guys, playing a mild mannered guy slowly coming unraveled. The performance was a revelation, and Ferrell has followed that…
TV Review: Grading the Season Finales
I’m going to grade a few of the season finales we saw in May. These aren’t all the shows I watch (in fact, this is the first episode of The Mentalist I’ve seen all the way through), but it’s the most notable season finales. Looking at this crew it’s become apparent the big four networks…