Mike Birbiglia, a stand-up comedian and frequent contributor to the outstanding radio program This American Life, adapts his autobiographical one-man show (which has been excerpted on THA) and 2010 novel Sleepwalk with Me and Other Painfully True Stories into a movie with one really great idea.
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The big DVD and Blu-ray release this week was Marvel’s The Avengers, but since that is now the third-biggest movie in the world and you’ve probably already seen it at least twice by now, I thought I’d review two new movies out on Blu-ray and DVD that you may have missed.
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Fantastic Fest 2012 in Austin, TX just finished up and these are capsule reviews of ‘Vanishing Waves, ‘I Declare War,’ and ‘Crave,’ three of the biggest award winners.
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Besides a challenging time-travel premise, a dark sense of humor, and some thrilling action scenes, Looper has the kind emotional weight that you wouldn’t expect.
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Surely when one thinks of great time-travel movies, a couple jump to mind immediately. Of course, I’m talking about Hot Tub Time Machine and Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, so I’m sad to say they have been left off of this Top 10 and are relegated only to the opening remarks section here.
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 is a backwoods version of American Psycho with equal parts gross-out humor and over-the-top acting.
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In the new indie documentary ‘The American Scream,’ director Michael Paul Stephenson ‘(Best Worst Movie’) profiles three home haunters at different levels of obsession in the small town of Fairhaven, Massachusetts.
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The video review is one thing, but what I wrote after that is way more detailed…leave your comments below after you see this bold, challenging film!
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Austin, Texas is home to the biggest, baddest genre film festival in the world — a place where zombie movies share the bill with twisted indie dramas, black comedies, action films, and sci-fi movies. It’s called Fantastic Fest and it starts today.
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Some may feel that the humor betrays the mood of first two movies, and that dropping the reality style was a mistake, but I disagree.
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Using specially designed hidden cameras, Brügger films his “secret” meetings with these powerful men — ministers, defense secretaries, bureaucrats, other “diplomats” — who all put on this charade that they are doing things for the welfare of the country.
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Quadrophenia captures the anger, the innocence, the hurt, and the rage of those young adult years and with The Who blaring in the background, gives you something to scream about.
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Hollywood has demonstrated time and time again that life after death isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. If you’re talking about horror or top comedy movies, sometimes you’re better off dead.
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An animated children’s movie about pirates and a drama about a man living his life out of order are two new DVDs out now.
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It’s consistently funny, but it’s also shame that Bachelorette lets most of its characters off the hook too easily, especially after being such a tough-minded film at the opening.
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