Originally published on Facebook 25 October 2014. Today’s totally paint-by-the-numbers-film seen theatrically: THE JUDGE, with Robert Duvall, Robert Downey Jr., Vincent Donofrio, Billy Bob Thorton, and Vera Farmiga all playing parts they could have performed in their sleep, acting out deep years of family epiphanies that play out exactly as you might have expected; a […]
Originally published on Facebook 21 October 2014. Despite it being accepted as a given by everybody who ever mentions it, the CASABLANCA TV series starring David Soul was not some one-of-a-kind, historical icon of awfulness. Really. It wasn’t. It wasn’t terrible at all. It just wasn’t special. Nor was it the crazy stupid thing TV […]
Originally published on Facebook 8 October 2010. The 1976 version of KING KONG is justifiably derided as possessing a vast magic-deficit compared to the 1933 original; I think it’s easily the worst of the three versions (and while I know many of you hate Peter Jackson’s 2006 remake, please shut up; I’ve had that argument […]