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Stand Up Guys Refuse to Fall Down

After a failed film experiment to find the perfect movie, Patrick Emmel’s film criticism fractured into two opposing parts: Jekyll, the film study critic, and Hyde, the critic who wants eye candy. These are his/their [...]

2013/01/28

Roadside Attractions

The Political Horror of The Bay

After a failed film experiment to find the perfect movie, Patrick Emmel’s film criticism fractured into two opposing parts: Jekyll, the film study critic, and Hyde, the critic who wants eye candy. These are his/their [...]

2012/11/26

Magnet Releasing

Jekyll & Hyde Movie Reviews: V/H/S

After a failed film experiment to find the perfect movie, Patrick Emmel’s film criticism fractured into two opposing parts: Jekyll, the film study critic, and Hyde, the critic who wants eye candy. These are his/their [...]

2012/08/27

The whole point of the original was "messing with your memories is a bad idea"

Total Recall: The 5 Best Bits about the Original

by Luke McKinney Colin Farrell remade Total Recall, and no one has taken on such impossible odds since the original Schwarzenegger movie. The original featured a more perfect ass-kicking combination than the A-Team. Director Paul Verhoeven had [...]

2012/08/02

Anne Hathaway delivers

Comic Book Grrl’s Non-Spoiler, Sarcasm-Infused Review of The Dark Knight Rises

by Blake Northcott Bruce Wayne – the original genius billionaire playboy philanthropist – comes out of retirement to defend Gotham City one last time in The Dark Knight Rises. As far as testosterone-fueled thrill rides [...]

2012/07/23

Behold: The greatest movie of all punchkicking time

The Raid: Redemption Is the Most Impossibly Awesome Action Movie Ever

by Luke McKinney Indonesian cinema treats Hollywood like a jock bullying a nerd: shouting “The wimp uses computers!” and doing horribly painful things with the human body. Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the [...]

2012/07/09

Guns and sports cars: yep, that’s America

Be Nice or Die: God Bless America Review & Interview

I’d be lying if I said I never imagined doing some cruel, heartless things to useless celebrities who don’t deserve their fame. Like most satirical writers, I write about it instead, taking verbal and visual [...]

2012/06/15

Do they have colors in Norway?

Headhunters: The Things We Do for Women

What would you do to keep your home, your woman, and your playboy lifestyle? Would you cheat? Steal? Kill? Immerse yourself in the turd pit of an outhouse? In the film version of Jo Nesbo’s [...]

2012/04/27

Magnolia Pictures

Manly Movie Review: Goon — MMA Meets The Mighty Ducks

I dig sports comedies. Ever since I saw Charlie Sheen pummeling a life-sized piece of sheet metal painted as a batter in Major League, I was hooked. Films like these always had the main characters [...]

2012/03/01

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