Special Report: What Is INSEPARABLE?

While I was compiling my most recent Unfortunate Movie Posters column, I spotted something intriguingly weird.  Let’s take a look at the posters for a movie called Inseparable.  This movie was made in China and released there on May 4th.  There is as yet no American release date.  That’s not the odd part. Okay, so it’s a [...]

From The Archives: THE INCREDIBLE HULK (2008).

I have this theory about movies – especially action movies – that sometimes it’s not wrong to just give the people what they want. The Ang Lee Hulk movie had that great scene where the Hulk fought army tanks in the desert, but other than those all-too-brief two minutes, the movie had some kind of strange and [...]

November’s Most Unfortunate Movie Posters.

You know the routine.  I show the movie posters, I drop some sarcasm, you chuckle and guffaw and forward the site to every last one of your friends, everybody goes home happy. Here’s how it went in the recent past… April’s Most Unfortunate Movie Posters. June’s Most Unfortunate Movie Posters. July’s Most Unfortunate Movie Posters. [...]

Cult Classics: PUNISHER: WAR ZONE (2008).

      PUNISHER: WAR ZONE & THE SAD STATE OF THE CINEMATIC SHIT-KICKER. So I was one of those strange people who watched Punisher: War Zone during its brief theatrical run.  If you’re a fan of left-field action flicks and intentional unintentional humor, I’ll tell you it’s definitely worth that late-night rental.  If you like [...]

Now On DVD: THOR.

Hey, what did the beat-up boxer say when his trainer asked him how he was feeling? THOR! So Thor‘s out on DVD and Blu-Ray today.  My review was pretty funny, if I do say so myself.  And I do. “So myself.”  Anyway.  Thor.  Let’s go back there together, shall we?’ ______________________________________________________________________________ Here’s what I liked [...]

From The Archives: SPIDER-MAN 2 (2004).

#5.  Spider-Man 2 (2004) Why fight it?  This movie is a kind of biography.  I don’t feel the need to talk too much in detail about my personal life, but if I were to do it, the parallels would be pretty blatant, and not just because pretty much everyone who’s ever seen me insists I’m [...]

Movie Review: CAPTAIN AMERICA (2011).

        In the modern superhero-movie gold rush, Captain America was always going to be one of the hardest comic book characters to adapt to screen. For one thing, his name is Captain America. That’s so unsubtle it sounds like a parody, and not a particularly timely one either.  We’re already forty years [...]

Not That Into You, WATCHMEN.

This review, for reasons quickly to become apparent, first appeared in 2009.  I’m posting it now because my long-awaited Sucker Punch review is going up next. NOT THAT INTO YOU, WATCHMEN. Naw, I dug the Watchmen movie a fair amount, actually.  I just saw the above mash-up title [He’s Just Not That Into You + [...]

A TRIBUTE: Gene Colan.

Gene Colan, without question one of the greatest comic book artists of all time, died this past Thursday at the age of 84.  He was best known for his early work on Daredevil and Iron Man at Marvel Comics, and also his work on characters like Batman for DC Comics, but more than anything the work [...]

TRAILER: A Dangerous Method (2012).

    A Dangerous Method is the next film from David Cronenberg, from a script by playwright Christopher Hampton.  It stars recent Cronenberg muse Viggo Mortensen (A History Of Violence, Eastern Promises) as Sigmund Freud and Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds, Centurion) as Karl Jung.  That’s right, it’s an action movie about the invention of psychotherapy! [...]