Review: "Cloud Atlas"
Cross posted from MoviePass:During the AMC Theatres presentation of "The Dark Knight Trilogy", my friends and I took a quick trip to the nearest gas station, as my head was killing me and I needed some...
View ArticleReview: "Skyfall"
Cross posted from the MoviePass blog: In my closet, I proudly store several boxes of VHS tapes. Some are pro wrestling pay per views and tv shows and some are movies I watched repeatedly as a kid. Of...
View ArticleReview: "Zero Dark Thirty"
Just the other night, I watched the ending of "Inglourious Basterds". While it was a television edit, it was still pretty graphic: people burning to death, Hitler getting machine gunned to pieces, a...
View ArticleReview: "President Wolfman"
There will always be a part of me that will love "Kung Pow: Enter the Fist". Don't look at my review like that... When I was in grade school, I would take the newspaper cartoons, cut out different...
View ArticleReview: "Cleanflix"
There is a great website with a great community of video editors called FanEdit.org. They encourage the re-imagining, re-organizing and re-editing of popular movies and TV shows - like, for example, a...
View ArticleReview: "Django Unchained"
Are you aware of the connection that Christoph Waltz in "Django Unchained" has with Vanilla Ice in "Cool as Ice"? It's a stretch, but follow me on this:Both characters enter town and introduce...
View ArticleNo Classified Ads for Critics
What outlet do you write for?And you work at...?I've been asked the above questions often when meeting with other NOLA area reviewers. Of course, I'm proud to plug MovieBoozer and my own blog, but when...
View ArticleReview: "House of Bad"
Just the other day, the good folks at MovieBoozer setup a debate between myself and fellow reviewer Mitch Hansch over the movie Olympus Has Fallen. Despite some problems with the format, we came to a...
View ArticleReview: "G.I. Joe: Retaliation"
When getting ready to watch a movie, there are few things worse to see in the opening credits than the following word: Hasbro. If a movie begins by announcing Hasbro as one of its production companies,...
View ArticleA Festival for "Steve Chong..."
The New Orleans Film Festival, run by the New Orleans Film Society, was recently listed as one of MovieMakers’ film festivals worth the entry fee for filmmakers. While I have never submitted a movie to...
View Article@MoviePass Reviews: "Disabled but Able to Rock" and "Spring Breakers"
Since the MoviePass blog is being phased out in favor of a Tumblr page (where my reviews will be shared), I decided it might be a good idea to post, in full, two exclusive reviews from that old...
View ArticleReview: "Evil Dead"
It doesn’t take much to impress me, but it does take a lot to scare me - when it comes to movies, I mean. At my most recent outing, a colleague teased me a bit about my lack of interest in watching...
View ArticleHe Didn't Care for "Superman Returns"
Just the other day, Roger Ebert announced the formation of Ebert Digital, a new venture “devoted to the creation of new digital products that build on the lifelong work of the world’s preeminent film...
View ArticleReview: "Room 237"
On my DVD shelf sit two movies that I consider among the best I’ve ever seen: Pi and JFK. Both movies deal with lead characters obsessed with their current problems and slowly (but surely) becoming...
View ArticleReview: "Where Y'at? (hello.)"
Q) What is Hollywood South?A) The southern (specifically Gulf of Mexico) region of the U.S., which hosts a good amount of Hollywood film and television productions, because of very attractive tax...
View ArticleReview: "To the Wonder"
Within my circle of facebook friends, Trash Humpers is one of the most disliked films. Two local theaterprogrammers, while appreciative of Harmony Korine’s body of work, absolutely despise his found...
View ArticleReview: "Oblivion"
I have great affection for David Lynch’s Dune. It’s a movie that barely explains itself, but keeps throwing stuff at you anyways. Sure, The OriginalStar Wars Trilogy didn’t feel the need to spell...
View ArticleReview: "Birdemic 2: The Resurrection"
There’s something charming about certain kinds of “bad” movies. For me, I can say that they remind me of my middle school days, when I’d run around the neighborhood, making short films on my palmcorder...
View ArticleReview: "Trailer War"
During my days as an aspiring videographer and editor, I dreamt up many ideas for movie projects: Shag Wars- a Star Warsand Austin Powerscombo; Desk Jumper- about a miniature man who base jumps from a...
View ArticleReview: "GreasePaint"
I have great respect for pro wrestlers. Ever since 2000, when my older brother took me and others to a Monday Night RAW TV event, I’ve read books, watched old tapes and absorbed as much information as...
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