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Wednesday, September 10 2008

Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008

What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience.


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Thursday, September 29 2011

'Scary Movie 2' and 'Scary Movie 3': Terrible Potential, Squandered

Compared to Scary Movie 3, Scary Movie 2 is positively clever, highbrow comedy, full of subtle turns of phrase and razor sharp wit.


Sunday, March 1 2009

Naked Gun: I Love the 80's Edition

Some 21 years down the line, The Naked Gun, surprisingly, is still pretty damn funny.


Thursday, January 15 2009

An American Carol

This is what right-wingers accuse Hollywood liberals of making: a vanity project intended to please a small, select group.


Friday, September 1 2006

Scary Movie 4 (2006)

This isn't a movie so much as a series of set pieces with a theme of parody in mind, only to quickly devolve into toilet humor of the most literal kind and asinine, gross-out histrionics.


Friday, April 21 2006

Scary Movie 4 (2006)

The problem is that none of this is surprising. We've seen these jokes on late night television, heard them on the radio or even thought of them ourselves.


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