Posted in Drama, Reader's Choice, tagged Comedy, Drama, Drumline, Nick Cannon on November 4, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Nick Cannon, please don’t take yourself so seriously.
Drumline isn’t actually half bad. And speaking as a former band nerd, the marching bands are pretty spot on.
Nick Cannon plays Devon, a drummer who goes to an Atlanta college and joins the marching band. He’s the worst kind of cocky as he’s so arrogant he can barely [...]
Posted in Horror, Reader's Choice, Review on October 19, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Uh… it’s like candy coated vampire lore?
Visually speaking, Dracula is a feast. It’s beautifully lit and bathed in an aura of Victorian sensibilities drenched in crimson and black. It has some stunning old-school sequences like in the beginning, where a beautiful opening montage explains how Dracula came to be a vampire. The costumes are gorgeous; [...]
Posted in Reader's Choice, Sci-Fi on October 19, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Fantastically bad!
Watching Johnny Mnemonic is akin to watching a train wreck in the sense that the train goes off the rails, flips twelve or thirteen times and then explodes in a massive conflagration akin to the sum total of all explosions in Michael Bay flicks. It’s that bad.
Based (and I use that term loosely) on [...]
Posted in Comedy, Reader's Choice, Romance on October 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Comedy, Reader's Choice on October 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Reader's Choice, Romance, Uncategorized, tagged Alan Rickman, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, guilty pleasure, Hugh Grant, Laura Linney, Liam Neeson, Love Actually, reader, Reader's Choice, romantic comedy on October 7, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I’ve reviewed Love Actually before (see here) but I went back and watched it again for Reader’s Choice.
Set a few weeks before Christmas and leading up to the big day itself, the movie examines the lives and loves of several groups of people, from family to friends and romantic relationships. It’s a tricky thing to [...]
Posted in Reader's Choice on August 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Here are your top 20:
Bring It On
Constantine
13 Going on 30
Johnny Mnemonic
Drumline
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Down With Love
Four Rooms
Phantom of the Opera
Hackers
Hudson Hawk
Cool Runnings
Love at First Bite
Big Trouble In Little China
Love, Actually
Empire Records
Real Genius
Face/Off
Top Gun
We’ll start after Tarantino Week, which is August 17 – 21. Thanks to everyone who submitted and voted!
Posted in Reader's Choice on July 21, 2009 | 26 Comments »
Get your #2 pencils out, ’cause this is multiple choice. You get FIVE selections. The twenty movies with the most votes go on the slate to be viewed. (Um, please vote, people? That’s the only way this’ll work.)
Oh, and remember …
(I couldn’t help myself. Honest!)
Posted in Reader's Choice on July 6, 2009 | 16 Comments »
Here are the submissions so far:
High School Musical 3
Bring It On
A Walk In The Clouds
Constantine
13 Going on 30
Johnny Mnemonic
Drumline
A Walk To Remember
Biodome
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
Uncle Buck
Adventures In Babysitting
Van Helsing
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Down With Love
Four Rooms
Mona Lisa Smile
The Phantom of the Opera
Where The Heart Is
Baseketball
Escape from LA
Joe Dirt
Josie and the Pussycats
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers
Alien vs. Predator: Requiem
Joe’s Apartment
Hackers
Cabin [...]
Posted in Reader's Choice, worst movies ever on April 5, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Congratulations to the following winner and runners-up of the Worst Movies Ever contest…
Winner: Scott from He Shot Cyrus, who broke my brain with the worst movie of all time (Begotten).
Runners-up: Jason from Invasion of the B Movies who nominated Troll 2, Joseph at Cinexcellence who nominated Manos: The Hands of Fate, and Sir Jorge at [...]
