Reviewing The Revenant

The Revenant is a beautiful, expertly made film by masters of the craft… and I’m not sure I’ll ever watch it again. Alejandro González Iňárritu (I’m so glad this isn’t a podcast so I don’t have to try to pronounce that) is so good as a director. He is coming off winning the Oscar for…

Reviewing The Stanford Prison Experiment

This movie was a solid representation of a fascinating real life study done by psychology professors at Stanford. Basically what they did was create a prison by emptying out an office hallway, boarding up the exits, and then separating the students (who volunteered for the $15 per day payout) into guards and prisoners. The intrigue…

Reviewing Ted 2

Let’s be honest, when you rent Ted 2, you aren’t looking for Citizen Kane. I rented Ted 2 hoping for nothing more than some shallow laughs. What I got was not even that. Not only did the jokes miss, but the storytelling was sloppy. That may not have mattered if they hadn’t had so many…

Rules for Remakes

Hollywood gets a lot a grief these days, and let’s be honest, it deserves most of it. I will say it again and again until it isn’t true: when money reigns, art suffers. The execs that run studios function more as business men than innovators. They package together what will sell, and they have become…

Making a Bad Movie: The Fantastic Four

Fox’s latest attempt to create a live action Fantastic Four movie was a disaster. That’s not just me giving a hyperbolized opinion on the watchability of the film. The movie cost $120 million to make but only made $56 million (that’s a $64 million loss, which is, needless to say, significant), and it boasts a…

Previewing 2016 Movies

In case it hasn’t previously been made apparent, let me go ahead and confess something: I am a movie nerd. I have been described as a movie snob, which may be fair, because of my tendency to nit-pick about movies and often dislike popular ones. But I do not aim to be hard to please….

My New Blog

Why the blog? That’s a fair question. I mean, I already do the podcast, so this could seem superfluous. Frankly, I have a lot of opinions on things that either (A) aren’t worth the work of making into a podcast, or (B) I don’t have the time to do as a podcast. Hence, the blog….