Essays, art, and comics of the unexpected
I was all mad at this movie, with its on-the-nose dialogue, repetitive exposition and female characters with zero agency. Roll-up-the-sleeves mad. Children of Men mad. Mad. Then I realized Lois Lane’s secret, and now...
Star Trek Into Darkness is optimal for heckling. It just wants to make you happy and feel a few feels. The actors are game and totally committed. It’s fun, fast and smart enough that...
Louis CK told me to be judicious with “hilarious,” but Jack Reacher was hilaaaaaarious. It was also ugly, with a prison rape joke in the first stanza of dialogue, but mostly it was hilarious....
Alfred, that is a lot of silly things (Thanks is due to many co-hecklers in the production of this heckle.) Nolan’s Batman saga is like a coin. The first side features breathless cause-and-effect (Batman...
I’d have to be a total jerk to criticize Brave. It’s fleet, entertaining, funny and charming. It’s eye-shatteringly beautiful, exquisitely animated and perfectly performed. Its heart is in the right place. The slapstick is...
Might solve a mystery… or rewrite history! What what. What what what. Prometheus is exquisitely made and beautifully acted. The art direction will melt your face. The cinematography will scorch your scalp. But the...
Battleship pleasantly surprised me. Successfully selling shlocky dialogue, SIR. It’s not that I have a soft spot for “E for effort” action movies. Of the Transformers movies (with Rifftrax; I found the first one...
ASSEMBLED Boy, howdy, did I enjoy this movie. No surprise. It’s at 93% on Rotten Tomatoes. It’s earned the biggest box office weekend EVAR. But it has stuck with me in curious ways. Spoilers...
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