Blades of Glory — movie review

Blades of Glory is unabashedly funny stuff. Just imagining Will Farrell and Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) carving and twirling in ridiculously revealing costumes is giggle worthy, but there were a lot of truly hilarious scenes.
Jon Heder plays beyond innocent if not metrosexual Jimmy MacElroy, adopted by the always uncomfortably comical William [...]

Aqua Teen Hunger Force colon Movie Film for Theaters — he said, she said — movie review

The main motley crew consists of an oversized “Happy Meal”: whiny egotistical Master Shake, levitating sleeve of french fries and voice of reason Frylock, and a naïve little raw meatball named Meatwad.

New Michel Gondry movie with Jack Black

If you’ve ever thought to yourself “hey Self, wouldn’t it be great if someone would make a movie starring Jack Black, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow and Mos Def?” Well, Michel Gondry has answered that dream. Yes, the genius behind wildly beautiful Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and music videos rife with inventive [...]

ANIME REVIEW . Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo: Bo-Nafide Protector

Anime loves its afros. Take Afro Samurai and Keroro Gunso, for instance. Or even the stationery character, Afro-ken. All have out-there hair (Keroro often covers his in a helmet) and corresponding out-there fan bases. Maybe it’s because the afro is as fun to draw as it is to admire. Regardless, now you can add [...]

DVD REVIEW . Vermillion Pleasure Night [Series]

So Lost, Heroes, and the like are quite popular with the Gen-Y crowd these days, but I’m betting some of you elitist hunters of strange are hankering for some interesting hour long entertainment that doesn’t require a season long investment to appreciate. For you, I perscribe the weird world of Vermillion Pleasure Night.
Vermillion Pleasure Night [...]

Beerfest — Silver Hawk — Leave it to the Nurses — capsule movie reviews

In an effort towards catching up, here are a few more capsule reviews. Note that we do have some full reviews in the queue, including Brick, Chiseen,The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai, and Stereo Future. On to the capsules:
Beerfest . Holy crap! A Broken Lizard film that’s actually funny! Okay, so Super Troopers had a [...]

MOVIE TRAILERS . Night of the Living Dead 3D, The Simpsons Movie, and more

We haven’t done a trailer roundup in quite a bit, so here you go.
The Bicycle Thief (was Bad). The big deal Japanese film this year. This has already seen a lot of press on Twitch. Check out the trailers here.
Come Early Morning. A comedy about life and love, starring Ashley Judd, and directed by Joey [...]

Shaun of the Dead — guest movie review

Shawn of the Dead is likely to be the zombie cult film of our age. While it falls under the category of horror-comedy, the film is fairly witty and pushes the main character through many emotions throughout the course of the story.
The approach toward zombies is quite realistic, as Shawn passes off the first [...]

Ooh, I want to see this! Stranger Than Fiction

There’s an upcoming Will Farrell flick that follows the lightly etched drama-indie-esque trail of fellow wacky skitster TV comics turned bigname Hollywood tickets Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler. Carrey surprised everyone in a low-key performance in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as did Adam Sandler in Punch Drunk Love. Both of these [...]

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan — movie review — screener!

Chris and I love gore gore horrorfests, but no scene ever made me want to shield my eyes and turn away as did a certain clip in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. It started out as a fair fight between Borat Sagdiyev (Sacha Baron Cohen) and Kazakh [...]

Inside Man — Just My Luck — movie reviews

I Heart New York.. here’s a couple of recent films I watched just because they were filmed in the Big Apple.
Inside Man - The first fifteen minutes of any movie is the clincher, and Inside Man is no exception. Clive Owen’s droning stoic baritone, upbeat India-inspired dance-y multi-keyed background tunes, rolling scenes of [...]

My Tutor Friend — movie review

The Korean post-Sassy Girl romantic comedy is something of an oddity when compared to the American romantic comedy. A sort of strange synthesis of Nora Ephron naievete peppered with Three Stooges slapstick violence, more often than not the narrative involves a protagonist (male or female) who suffers a sizeable amount of humiliation or discomfort at [...]

Lonesome Jim — movie review

I’ve always held a soft spot in my heart for Casey Affleck, ever since he called Jason Lee a “tracer” in Chasing Amy. As if lines couldn’t get any better, there he was in Good Will Hunting slurring “want a double burrrrger” and “gimme my fuckin’ sammich”. Let us not forget his very [...]

Evil Bong — movie review

Just when you thought there was nothing new under the sun in terms of horror films, along comes Charles Band’s Evil Bong, the premier entry into the newly minted possessed-drug-paraphernalia subgenre. The title alone had me grinning like a fool. I mean, Evil Bong. Evil…Bong. It’s just so wonderfully silly. But then again, the same [...]

Thumbsucker — movie review

“It’s an understandable habit… what’s strange is that people ever quit.” Words of wisdom from shamen/orthodontist Perry (Keanu Reeves) right before he hypnotizes Justin Cobb (Lou Pucci), a 17-year-old chronic thumb abuser. “From now on, your thumb will taste like echinachea”, and it does. It “cures” Justin of his affliction, but not [...]

Still no Idiocracy screenings in SF

It’s the second week since Mike Judge’s latest film reached limited release, and still no screenings in the San Francisco bay area, nor in the cultural mecca that is New York. Sad. Kris and I have been waiting for it to release for quite a while. If you’ve not heard of Idiocracy, you’re not alone. [...]

A Taste of Tea (aka: Cha no Aji) movie review

Summer’s over and stress is back, so, I offer up a review of a relaxing flick.

A Taste of Tea, not to be confused with Wayne Wang’s Eat a Bowl of Tea, concerns a family of dreamers living in the Japanese countryside, and their efforts to realize their respective dreams. Really, that’s about the simplest plot [...]

Clerks 2 — movie review

I first saw Clerks on VHS during its initial release week my freshman year of high school. Back then no one really knew about Clerks, or director, Kevin Smith. So, I made the mistake of watching it with my mother. Now I had watched a lot of R rated films by that time, but that [...]