Restored manually following the Blogger Disaster of 2011. My apologies to any commenters whose contributions did not survive. In a functional world, it would be no big deal for there to be a movie with a large cast of black people, but that isn’t the world we live in, which means that a film like […]
It’s not the fault of anybody involved with the production of the long-completed, just-released The Beaver that it has been forced into the difficult position of being the first stop on the Mel Gibson Comeback Whistle-Stop Tour (okay, so I suppose it’s Mel Gibson’s fault, but you know what I mean). Nor is it anything […]
Every Sunday this summer, we’ll be taking an historical tour of the Hollywood blockbuster by examining an older film that is in some way a spiritual precursor to one of the weekend’s wide releases. This week: Thor isn’t just the latest in a long (so long…) line of comic book adaptations, it’s also one of […]
Somewhere or another this week, I read a review in which somebody lightly dismissed the problem of casting superheroes the approximate sentiment “Robert Downey, Jr. can’t play ’em all, so take what you can get.” This seems wrong to me: why can’t Robert Downey, Jr. play them all? Why can’t the long-threatened The Avengers, finally […]
Author’s note: I no longer endorse this review, and certainly not its final score, but I leave it in place for now until such time as I’m able to write a replacement. Whatever pretext undergirds the Fast and the Furious series, it has finally been snuffed out by Fast Five, which is not really a […]
Don’t let that donation to the Carry On Campaign fool you – Pat King is a terrible, terrible human being. Just look at what he’s making me watch. I kid, Pat’s one of my favorites, even if he is a total asshole. So here we are again, wondering what the hell is the deal with […]
There is a cave system in the south of France, named Chauvet after one of the three people who discovered in 1994. The Chauvet cave contains a wealth of paintings created by Stone Age artists; there are the usual dating controversies that crop up whenever people want to find exact dates for things that happened […]
Benjamin Verschoor made his Carry On Campaign contribution a really gosh-darn long time ago; but since it involved comparing two cuts of one movie, I wanted to postpone it until I could watch both versions right in a row which, easier said than done. At long last, however, it is ready, and my thanks to […]
