80s movies
Movie Review: A Good Day To Die Hard
3.5 stars out of 5 I’ll keep seeing Die Hard movies as long as they keep making them. They’ll wheel out Bruce Willis, it’ll be “Yippie-ki— wait, what was I talking about?” and I’ll be sitting there in the virtuo-theater munching eCorn. But if they expect me to remember anything from film to film, they […]
Movie Review: 56 Up
4 stars out of 5 First of all, this is not a quickie sequel to This Is 40, and thank goodness for that. It is, however, definitely a sequel, the 8th installment in Michael Apted’s fascinating “Up” documentary series. (Apted was an assistant on the first one, Seven Up!, back in 1964, and has been […]
Separated at Birth XX
The cover of Titus Andronicus’s upcoming album and the poster image from Tom Cruise’s most successful film of 1983
I Was Willing To Give Mel Gibson Another Chance
Really, I was. Sure, there had been the anti-semitism and sexism, the homophobia, The Passion of the Christ, that Apocalypto piece of crap, and that crazy beard. I haven’t seen a Mel Gibson movie since Signs in 2002, and I only remember that it was awful, and there were glasses of water all over the […]
Mini-Series Title Math
The Last Temptation of Christ + The Last Emperor ____________________ ?
Who Are You, Third Guy on the Pineapple Express Poster?
You’re not Seth Rogen. You’re not James Franco. You’re not Jason Statham, I know that. So, who are you? Oh, it’s a rhetorical question. I could go to the official website and learn your identity. I could read the credits on the poster and see three additional names and figure it out by process of […]
I’ll Donate $25 to the Catholic Church
…if Benedict XVI heads down to Bleecker Street on Sunday and proclaims, “Now I’M the Pope of Greenwich Village, beyotch.”
Jack Silbert, curator