I don’t want to say that the departure of Horror Thursday host Jason Soto leaves big shoes to fill, but frankly, it does.  Seriously, I’ve met Jason, and he just has tremendously-sized feet, which of course means that he has…a [...]

It was not so long ago that I first heard the term ‘vulgar auteurism’ and wondered what people were talking about. Now that I have read up on some of it – though by no means all – I have [...]

Was it really only a week ago that they announced Peter Capaldi as the new Doctor Who? Really? Man, it seems like a lot longer than that. But it’s true. And it’s amazing how quickly the idiots came out of [...]

Earlier this week, the stars and producer of Disney’s The Lone Ranger were asked their thoughts on the response of critics in America to their film. And they did not disappoint those American critics.  Some sample responses: “This is the [...]

I’ve grown increasingly cynical over the past few months – big shock, I’m certain that no one’s noticed. Summer has been a cinematic wasteland, punctuated by films that were just, sadly, OK. My biggest expectation (Pacific Rim) was enjoyable but [...]

So imagine for a second I told you that you get to run a major studio. You get to decide which films move forward, who will direct them, even who will star. As you start trying to decide where to [...]

If any of you follow me on Twitter – and really, of course you do, because why wouldn’t you? – you might know that over the past few months I’ve grown increasingly … I believe the word is perturbed, but [...]

We have reached the nadir of film criticism. Rex Reed banged a few nails into the coffin with his non-review of V/H/S 2 and bashing Melissa McCarthy’s weight rather than her film. Lianne Spiderbaby has helped to bury it  by [...]

This week I saw Pacific Rim. The short review is simply this: it’s good. Really good. It’s economical storytelling with basic human motivations for its characters and plenty of well-done giant robot versus giant monster spectacle. It’s also unambitious, loud [...]

Prepare to be shocked.  For a very long time, I … was a film snob. Shocking, I know. Me, the most egalitarian, the least opinionated film blogger that you will come across.  But it’s true.  My teenage years were awash [...]