Jack Reacher is Hilarious
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....
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23 Silly Things about The Dark Knight Rises
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...
Splitting Hairs with Brave
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...
Prometheus
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...
In Defense of Battleship
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...
John Carter of Mess
Disney’s John Carter brought me out of heckling retirement. Too many Tharks on the dance floor John Carter (not a princess, not of Mars) is a convoluted mess, but to my tastes a more...
The Last Exorcism
SPOILERS ALL OUT OF CONTROL. I enjoyed The Last Exorcism. Up until the last three minutes it was packed with good conflict, good ideas, good acting and good suspense. The last three minutes were…...
The Last Airbender
How can a movie be both repetitive AND confusing? Kissing fun goodbye since 1999 One might suggest that M. Night Shyamalan is not experienced with action or heavy green-screen. I think Shyamalan had a...
