“Game Over, Man” (#17)

“We’d better get back, ’cause it’ll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night… mostly.”

“We Got Cows!” (#1)

Hold on to something! The When We Were Young podcast’s pilot episode glances back at everyone’s favorite cow-tossing summer blockbuster, Twister, to see if the windiest divorce drama of all time holds up 20 years later.

Media Noche: Gyllenhaal Is Bad News In ‘Nightcrawler’

The media is sleazy. We all know this. Films like Network and To Die For have highlighted the unscrupulous methodology of the news media in a way that, if you didn’t look carefully enough, might even feel like celebration. We hate the media, but we love to hate it. The talking heads, the sensational headlines, […]

Dying On The ‘Edge’: All You Need Is Cruise

I’m not sure what the hell is going on, but in 2014, the summer blockbusters are actually good. All of them? No. Let me start over.

Ballad Of Jack & Rose: Are We Ready To Go Back To ‘Titanic’?

James Cameron’s new film Titanic is quite a spectacle! It stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as star-crossed lovers named Jack and Rose. He’s a poor guy, she’s a rich girl, but they buck class conventions clearly delineated by the ship (and the world at large) and decide to hook it up in an old-timey […]

The Girlfight Experience: Gina Carano Goes ‘Haywire’

2011 is long gone — we’re a month into the new year, yet every movie I’ve seen this January is a 2011 release. By design. The studios always roll out way more movies than we could ever possibly see all at once, then let us scramble to catch them all in order to be caught […]