When adapting an Italian comic book that stars a moody Rupert Everett lookalike investigating crimes of the undead and aided by what is essentially Groucho Marx, the first thing you should do is…well…not do that. But, the makers of Dylan Dog: Dead of Night just couldn’t help themselves. Truth be told, I can’t really blame … Continue reading
John Hughes is a revered filmmaker responsible for some of the most influential films of the 1980s and 1990s. Classics like Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Breakfast Club, and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles are just a few of Hughes’s best. But as prolific as he was, and as good as so many of his films … Continue reading
Jonah Hex was a movie that appeared on 2,825 movie screens in the United States. And that’s the most positive thing I could say about it. Based on the DC Comics character in the same way that feces is essentially based on food, Josh Brolin stars as the titular gunslinger with a seriously messed-up face. … Continue reading
A few months ago I posted the trailer for a little movie called Iron Sky and swore that some day…some day…I would see this film about Nazis from the Moon that try to invade Earth. Today was that day. Iron Sky opens in the year 2018 as a new manned mission to the Moon touches … Continue reading
Assassin’s Creed III was one of my most-anticipated games of 2012, but for a variety of reasons (money), I’m just now playing it here in 2013. Prettybird was generous enough to offer it to me as a Christmas present on the condition that I not drop off the face of the planet after putting the … Continue reading
Skyfall is a great movie and an excellent return to form for the Bond franchise. Unfortunately, one terrible scene and one flippant line mar what is otherwise one of the best Bond films. I’ll get to that. It has been almost six years since the “Bond Reboot” and the casting of Daniel Craig as 007 … Continue reading
When I first saw a trailer for Looper, I was pretty damn impressed. Just the concept was interesting: hitmen hired specially to kill and dispose of marks from the future, and one of those hitmen forced to confront his older self. Add in a cast like Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, and Emily Blunt, and you … Continue reading
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