March 2011
5 posts
Joe O'Shansky Reviews: Sucker Punch/Tiny Furniture
“Maybe Sucker Punch — an apt title — will live on in campy infamy and take on a cult following for its amusing awfulness, kind of like Showgirls; though that’s doubtful since at least Verhoeven had the good sense to embrace the slick misogyny and prurience of his far more fun abomination”….And I realize the pointlessness of synopsizing Tiny Furniture.
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Phil Bacharach Review: Paul
Who among us hasn’t searched the nighttime sky and dreamt of life on another planet?
Would the experience be one of Spielbergian wonder, all diffused light and magical bike rides, or a nightmare of abduction and anal probes?
The comedy “Paul” posits another option: Perhaps the alien, who calls himself Paul, is a potty-mouthed, potsmoking space traveler flummoxed by all these human fears of...
Joe O'Shansky Reviews: Battle: Los Angeles/Red...
Just about the last item on my List of Things I Needed Today was another goddamn Twilight movie…or a better version of Skyline.
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Jeffrey Huston Review: Battle: Los Angeles
Battle: Los Angeles is exactly what you think it is. Everything’s well-produced, but nothing’s particularly memorable.
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Jeffrey Huston Review: Cedar Rapids
…it feels like a movie set in the heartland made by coastal liberals who pity those in flyover country (and mistake that pity for caring).
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