American Zombie is a tiny little mockumentary that you may need to exert some effort to find, but I hope you will find it as well worth it as I and my companions did. Grace Lee directs (and costars as the in-film documentary’s codirector) this story of the zombie community’ struggles to function in […]

Dewey Cox is a man whose life started hard, but the music carried him through. Walk Hard, if you couldn’t tell by the preview, is a parody of music biopics. These films, especially of late, have had a certain strange formula (despite the disparity of their subjects) that was indeed ripe for gentle […]

Jake Kasdan (Orange County, The Zero Effect) wrote and directed this little movie, which disappeared in theatres despite its gimme cast and major production team. Executive produced by comedy wunderkind Judd Apatow, Kasdan’s little movie has the feel of so much of their shared body of work: a fun time being had by all […]

I get it. I mean, I get the idea. Shoot ‘Em Up is a purposefully over-the-top video game level fantasy of gunplay, wacky action moves, and intentional winking. I was ready and primed for something with the crazy feel of the Transporter or old Tarantino or something like that. The experience […]

Some movies are made for a very specific niche audience, but delight better than any mass crowd-pleaser.  Fido is just such a film.  The premise:  It’s 1951.  Those zombie wars were a generation ago, and are now over (we won, by the way, or so we believe).  For the last 25-30 years, we have enjoyed […]

Already the number one film in England for five weeks, Hot Fuzz is a cop-buddy action-comedy- homage by the guys who made the original zom rom com, Shaun of the Dead, which you should see.  Hot Fuzz is filled with references to and reverence for such films as Lethal Weapon, Bad Boys II, and their […]

Eric Schlosser’s non-fiction book Fast Food Nation is a dense but fascinating (and nightmare inducing) read, an in-depth dissection of the many elements that feed and influence the fast food machine in the U.S. I have to confess I couldn’t get all the way through it - about half way through the chapter […]

Confetti is one of those movies where you either adore it or you hate it. I’m an adult, I can confess that I adored it. At the same time, I can totally understand why some of you might hate it (check your chromosomes). Either way, give it a chance, we all can […]

Overall, I would have to classify this movie as a disappointment, even though I had a good time watching it. What was lacking was a sense of completion, and full use of all its promise. American Dreamz the movie (the titular TV show within the movie is a naked parody of American […]

You’ve probably seen the ads for this movie - a charismatic Aaron Eckhart, in voice over, mocks his character’s reputation as a slick spokesman for Big Tobacco. It’s a sly, winking ad that says, “Hey, folks who hate cigarettes - here’s a satire about how charming it is to be evil. Put that […]