Archive for May, 2004

Bukowski: Born Into This movie review

by Kris   ⋅   May 29, 2004   ⋅   Comment [1]

WAS BUKOWSKI’S LIFE FACT OR FICTION? Womanizing bastard. Insolent egoist. Bukowski was a rare someone who didn’t give a hoot what you thought about him, plain and simple. He was a dirty old man whose sardonic rants ran rank, slippery with booze, and often trickled over into the obscene and pornographic. He bedded women for [...]

Van Helsing he-said-she-said movie review screener!

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   May 5, 2004   ⋅   Comment now

STEPHEN SOMMERS STICKS IT WHERE THE SUN DON’T SHINE SHE SAID: God damned Dracula and Van Helsing to an eternity of Hell on earth, and tonight, Chris and I suffered along with them (well, at least for half of the movie). Straddling chaos and eye candy and mutantoid bat babies rose poignant moments, but those [...]

Kill Bill vol. 2 guest movie review

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   May 4, 2004   ⋅   Comments [10]

The first half of Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” was an action fever dream with moments of disproportionate intensity worthy of Michael Powell or Brian De Palma. In “Vol.2,” the tempo slows down but the characters deepen and expand as the saga comes to an end. The film should really be seen as a whole – [...]

Napoleon Dynamite movie review screener!

by Kris   ⋅   May 1, 2004   ⋅   Comments [11]

Editor’s Note: This was actually one of the first Napoleon Dynamite reviews on the web. Go Kris!
VOTE FOR PEDRO On April 29th, we were invited to see a pre-sneak preview of what I believe will be one of the top comedic surprises for the Summer. If you like the “witty banter” between SpongeBob Squarepants and [...]

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