Saturday, May 26

Pre-Willennium Tension: Men In Black III Reviewed

Movies & Television We don't know why there's a third Men in Black, but we reviewed it anyway, even though it screened a... More

May 25, 2012 04:35 pm by AP KRYZA | Comments 0

A Little Big Disaster: Battleship Reviewed

Movies & Television Battleship, the gargantuan-budget sci-fi action-adventure based on a Hasbro board game and starring ... More

May 21, 2012 10:47 am by MATTHEW SINGER | Comments 2

Grimm Recap: The Girl with the Dragon Breath

Movies & Television Grimm, Season 1, Episode 14: "Plumed Serpent"Beast of the Week: Damonfeuers, dragon creatures who ca... More

Mar 13, 2012 03:18 pm by MATTHEW SINGER | Comments 0

Grimm Recap: The One with the Hitler Demon

Movies & Television So I took last week off from these recaps (read: I never found time to watch the episode), but lucki... More

Mar 5, 2012 02:26 pm by MATTHEW SINGER | Comments 1

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Brew Views: Point Break

Put down the cellphone, squid brain.

Brew Views “If you want the ultimate, you have to pay the ultimate price.” It’s one of the many pearls of wisdom Patrick Swayze’s Zen-surfing/bankrobbing/skydiving/beach-footballing villain Bodhi s More

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 AP KRYZA

Brew Views: The Hunter

Man versus wild.

Brew Views Willem Dafoe hunts a rare tiger in the jungles of Tasmania? Sign me the fuck up! Like The Grey, whose trailer insinuated Liam Neeson would spend the movie killing wolves with his bare hands, a one More

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Brew Views: Casa de Mi Padre

Y tu caca tambien.

Brew Views The best joke of Casa de Mi Padre is that it exists at all. Nearly entirely in Spanish, with Will Ferrell playing a Mexican ranching heir alongside Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, the film is More

Wednesday, May 9, 2012 AARON MESH

Brew Views: The Maltese Falcon

It’s bad business.

Brew Views Let’s all take a moment to thank George Raft for The Maltese Falcon. Sure, he’s not actually in it—that’s why we’re grateful. The blank chorus boy with the tough-guy mug made a second ca More

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 AARON MESH

Brew Views: The Dirty Dozen

War machine.

Brew Views Earlier this year, the George Lucas-produced Red Tails tried (and failed) to tell the inspiring story of the Tuskegee Airmen by resurrecting the corny, flag-waving 1940s war picture—the exact ki More

Wednesday, April 25, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Brew Views: Rock ’n’ Roll High School

Subterranean blackboard jungle.

Brew Views Essentially the Ramones’ A Hard Day’s Night, 1979’s Rock ’n’ Roll High School takes place in a parallel dimension to our own, a Bizarro World where preppy pretty boys pine after weirdo p More

Wednesday, April 18, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Brew Views: Casino

Cocaine eyes.

Brew Views As if still fueled by all that nose candy at the end of GoodFellas, Scorsese’s desert follow-up Casino is the highest-grade Marty party, with all the tricks of his middle period deployed as ofte More

Wednesday, April 11, 2012 AARON MESH

Brew Views: Sudden Impact

Magnum farce.

Brew Views Acolytes in the Church of Eastwood will tell you that Sudden Impact is not just the Dirty Harry movie that coined “Go ahead, make my day” for Reagan: No, it’s also the one Clint directed, an More

Wednesday, April 4, 2012 AARON MESH

Brew Views: Twilight Zone: The Movie

Dante’s Inferno

Brew Views Rod Serling was all about the heavy-handed allocation of ironic fate, so maybe it was inevitable that the Spielbergian bloat of Twilight Zone: The Movie would be punished by being remembered only fo More

Wednesday, March 28, 2012 AARON MESH

Brew Views: The Big Sleep

A kiss before dying.

Brew Views The story goes that when Howard Hawks was making The Big Sleep, industry censors said his conclusion was too lenient toward organized crime. So he asked them to write the ending themselves, and th More

Wednesday, March 21, 2012 AARON MESH