There's a great scene in Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, where the titular menace comes rampaging into a garden festival. The owner of the 'Garden Supplies' stall slaps up a hastily scrawled 'Angry Mob' sign over the word 'Garden', and quickly starts selling pitchforks and spades to the townsfolk. The whole scene is probably less than two seconds long, and by the time you've regist ...

I considered substituting this review with a photo of a big pile of dog poo....cause that's what this movie is. Other visual representation options might include: some sweaty dead monkey balls, a high powered vacuum cleaner, an anthropomorphic sickle & hammer masturbating all over the Hollywood sign, and so on and so forth. Night Watch has two plots, barely related to each other. The first is, th ...

Here's an odd thing: A script that's smart and funny, but also about something at the same time. Or perhaps odder- an 'issues' film that's not too busy beating you over the head with the issue to be both clever and amusing. Structurally, Lord of War reminded me a lot of Goodfellas- the narrator, Yuri Orlov, gives a voice-over as he takes us through his history as a gunrunner from his youth to the ...

I know it shouldn't matter, but it's funny how certain auteur directors can be crippled or advantaged when they try to make a film against type. For example, when David Lynch made The Straight Story, it was so completely normal, so the opposite of his usually dense and incomprehensible plotlines, that is seemed positively bizarre. David Cronenberg, director of such classic mind-bending films as ...

There's really two Serenitys, and I'm afraid I can only review one of them. The first Serenity is what you would see if you had never watched the show, didn't know there was a show, didn't care about these characters. If this is you, I went with several friends who saw this film and said they enjoyed it. Go see*. The second Serenity, the one I saw, is what you'd see if already watched the show, e ...