Greetings and welcome back to Raspberry Picking, where we look back at Golden Raspberry Award winners and decide whether they really deserve to be called the worst movies ever. Today we’ve got a visit from The Postman, nominee for five Razzie Awards, winner of all five including Worst Picture, Worst Actor, and Worst Director, and loser of more than $60 million and Kevin Costner’s reputation. Hey, remember Kevin Costner? Y’all […]
Greetings and welcome back to Raspberry Picking, where we look back at Golden Raspberry Award winners and decide whether they really deserve to be called the worst movies ever. This time, we’re looking at The Lonely Lady, 11-time Razzie nominee, winner of six, and film debut for, of all people, Ray Liotta. You’d be forgiven for thinking that the Golden Raspberry Awards have a bit of a lady problem. It […]
Greetings and welcome back to Raspberry Picking, where we look back at Golden Raspberry Award winners and decide whether they really deserve to be called the worst movies ever. This time, we’re looking at I Know Who Killed Me, winner of a whopping eight Razzies including Worst Picture (a record that stood until Jack and Jill fell down the hill in 2012) and the final nail in the coffins of […]
Greetings and welcome back to Raspberry Picking, where we look back at Golden Raspberry Award winners and decide whether they really deserve to be called the worst movies ever. This time, we’re looking at Cocktail, nominee for four Razzies and winner of two, including the 1989 Razzie for Worst Picture. In the realm of Razzie Award winners for Worst Picture, the story of Roger Donaldson’s Cocktail is downright pedestrian. Here’s […]
Greetings and welcome back to Raspberry Picking, where we look back at Golden Raspberry Award winners and decide whether they really deserve to be called the worst movies ever. This time, we’re looking at Color of Night, winner of the 1995 Razzie Award for Worst Picture and – for the first and (so far) last time – no other Razzies, despite eight nominations. The Razzies measure a film’s notoriety far more effectively than […]
Brand new month, brand new topic! Patron Gavin McDowell asked us to cover the films of Ray Harryhausen and the people voted for his 1957 effort 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH! Tim and Brennan break down the breathtaking special effects used to create the Ymir, the way the Italian setting makes some of the 50’s boilerplate more tolerable, and Brennan tries to impress his friend Hunter by referencing as many […]
Greetings and welcome back to Raspberry Picking, where we look back at Golden Raspberry Award winners and decide whether they really deserve to be called the worst movies ever. This time, we’re looking at Ghosts Can’t Do It, winner of four Razzies (including Worst Picture, a tie with The Adventures of Ford Farlaine) and killer of multiple film careers. Someday we might feature a movie on Raspberry Picking that did […]
[Editor’s note: Starting today, Mandy’s Raspberry Picking series arrives at its permanent home on the schedule. Look for for future essays on the second Tuesday of every month!] Greetings and welcome back to Raspberry Picking, where we look back at Golden Raspberry Award winners and decide whether they really deserve to be called the worst movies ever. This time, we’re looking at Inchon, winner of four Razzies (including Worst Picture) and loser […]
I have never read Patrick Ness’s 2008 YA novel The Knife of Never Letting Go, the source material for the feature film Chaos Walking (the movie takes its title form the overall series of which the book was the first part). Indeed, until a day ago, I had never heard of The Knife of Never Letting Go. But I am, even so, entirely confident that it does a much better […]
A review requested by Nathan Morrow, with thanks to supporting Alternate Ending as a donor through Patreon. Do you have a movie you’d like to see reviewed? This and other perks can be found on our Patreon page! It’s impossible to talk about The King and the Mockingbird without talking about its torturous path into the world: it was in production for 32 years, the longest period in production for […]
Intermittently 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: in Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, Dwayne Johnson plays a character who was introduced as a villain in a franchise film before becoming a hero in this standalone adventure only glancingly connected to […]
Intermittently 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: the finest scene in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time …in Hollywood finds Sharon Tate raptly watching herself in the final movie released before her brutal murder. Why not do as Tarantino has, and celebrate […]
