Now on DVD: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (US, 2011).

David Fincher’s adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo opens with an intense, aggressive, dynamic, pansexual, twisted credit sequence.  It’s a series of appealingly grotesque images; inky silhouette figures mixing and morphing and blending into each other, scored to the wild industrial howl of Karen O and Trent Reznor’s urgent cover version of Led [...]

Live on @Twitter: WILD HOGS (2007).

The following is what happened when I had to watch Wild Hogs, the movie where four middle-aged movie stars start a motorcycle gang in the interest of wacky slapstick comedy. This one ain’t headed for the Criterion Collection, amigos. ___________________________ Okay guys, here goes: WILD HOGS. Somebody teamed up Tim Allen, John Travolta, and Martin [...]

From The Archives: TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE (2004).

And now, my top ten favorites of 2000-2009 starts to get explosive, with #6.  Team America: World Police (2004) It was a strong decade for comedy, or maybe I just enjoyed comedies more because I needed them so much.  (Depressing-ass decade.)  But of the dozens and dozens of comedies I saw between 2000 and 2009, [...]

Cult Classics: TORQUE (2004).

Prepare yourself for my incoming Fast Five review by reading this piece about a less recent, lower-profile neo-classic B-movie about fast-moving vehicles, pretty ladies in tight clothes, and homoerotic male bonding! I recently re-read what I scribbled down in my movie journal about Torque, and I feel like now, on Fast Five’s opening day, is [...]

Movie Review: THE EXPENDABLES.

Official Expendables sweat stains! _____________________________________________________ The Expendables travel around in a flying boat that is marked with the words “Wildlife Conservancy,” which is kind of the key to the movie’s sense of humor right there.  Whenever these guys visit a foreign locale, they let loose with an inferno of gunfire and scorched earth that probably [...]