Reader’s Choice – Guilty Pleasures: Down With Love

I waited for a while on this one.
Down With Love is like a bad date that goes horribly wrong three quarters of the way through.   A good time is had until a terrible faux pas is made, or someone gets food poisoning or your date turns out to be a recently released convict or something [...]

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Reader’s Choice – Guilty Pleasures: 13 Going on 30

It’s like Big!   But GIRLY!

13 Going on 30 isn’t a favorite of mine, but I can easily see how it could be a guilty pleasure.    It’s a fluffy morality tale about getting everything you thought you wanted and realizing it wasn’t worth it.
13 year old Jenna Rink is desperate to fit in with the cool [...]

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Reader’s Choice – Guilty Pleasures: Love At First Bite

Ah, George Hamilton, King of the Carrot Colored People.  (I hear Lindsay Lohan’s a countess.)

Count Dracula (George Hamilton) has been evicted from his castle by a Communist committee bent on turning it into a training facility for Romanian athletes.   Dracula relocates to New York, which is no coincidence.   He’s finally fallen in love after 700 [...]

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#1549: The Hangover

Doug (Justin Bartha) is traveling to Las Vegas with his friends Stu (Ed Helms) and Phil (Bradley Cooper) as well as his soon to be brother-in-law Alan (Zach Galifianakis).    Stu’s stuck with a harridan for a girlfriend, Phil’s excited to get away from his wife and kid and Alan … well, Alan’s just got [...]

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#1539: Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter

There’s so much to tackle in a film like Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, so let’s just … start with the name.

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter is exactly what the name implies plus more.   Jesus Christ returns to earth in Canada to protect lesbians from evil vampires hellbent on nomming on their blood.   If you think that’s [...]

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#1536: Lars and the Real Girl

Lars (Ryan Gosling) is a guy who is lacking in the social skills department.  He lives in a small town where his place of residence is the guesthouse of his family’s property.   His brother Gus and sister-in-law Karen live in the main house.   He works a boring job and goes to church, but his painful [...]

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#1526: Worst Movies Ever – Just My Luck

God, this thing wears thin fast.
Just My Luck involves Ashley (Lindsay Lohan), a fashionable Manhattan career girl who has everything go her way and Jake, a guy who does something involving music and who seems to be perenially cursed with awful luck.   When the two inadvertently cross paths at a masquerade party and kiss, they [...]

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Movies With My Mom: The Thin Man

My mother, by and large, hates the movies I review.   By hates, I mean, she tells me all the time that she just wishes that I would review something that didn’t involve massive explosions, decapitations and blood splatters.
Okay, fair enough.
So I made a deal with her that we’d do one movie a month that she [...]

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#1508: Worst Movies Ever: Leonard Part 6

Uuunnngggh.
How to describe Leonard Part 6? It’s a comedy depicting Bill Cosby as a retired spy who’s goaded back into the game after a vegetarian hell bent on freeing the world’s animals begins to plot to “free” the animals and begins killing people by training animals to kill.   That is the surface area to it, [...]

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#1496: Worst Movies Ever – Meet The Spartans

There is not much to say about the horribly unfunny mish-mash of parody jokes that make up Meet The Spartans, except that if this is what my fellow average moviegoers consider fine comedic entertainment, then we are all doomed.   There is no hope left for humanity and we should all give up now, flailing in [...]

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