Sometimes being a movie critic is simply acting as a reporter and informing the reader what experience the movie in question has to offer. With comedies like Austin Powers, Napoleon Dynamite, and, yes, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, I wouldn’t be doing my job without admitting right away that the audience and I laughed a great deal. In fact, I took my friend Tom with me and, … [Read more...] about JACKASS PRESENTS BAD GRANDPA New Movie Review
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PAIN AND GAIN New Movie Review
Michael Bay’s first movie, Bad Boys, opened worldwide in 1995, introducing audiences to his style of flashily frenetic editing and deafening explosions, matched with awesomely moronic storytelling and dialogue. His brand of making louder, thrilling and infinitely stupid action movies was marked from the beginning. Meanwhile, at around the same time, a horrific crime was … [Read more...] about PAIN AND GAIN New Movie Review
Killing Them Softly New Movie Review
The key to any great gangster flick is to let the audience in, a quality that The Godfather and Goodfellas both have in common. Those films gave us a cluster of criminals who, despite their efficiently vile methods on the job, were family men and women who were flawed but recognizably, endearingly human. We root against them and admire them at the same time, cringing at their … [Read more...] about Killing Them Softly New Movie Review
Sinister New Movie Review
Ethan Hawke stars as a true crime writer who has just knowingly moved his family into a house where four people died. The reason why this mysterious but ghastly incident occurred will provide him with the ingredients of a hit bestseller, or so he hopes. Then there’s the box full of old Super 8, reel to reel movies he finds in the attic: who put them there, who made them and … [Read more...] about Sinister New Movie Review