The shot of Katie standing and staring at Micah was a stroke of genius, I have to admit.  I saw the movie in a packed theater, and when the time stamp at the bottom corner of the screen started to speed up and reveal her standing there for hours, there was a collective shudder through the audience and everyone gasped.…

I'll admit that I've been tempted to check out that new Tim Allen sitcom just for the sake of seeing the actress who played the daughter in Paranormal Activity 2, who plays Allen's daughter on the show.  I'm a sucker for Jennifer Connelly types, although she's probably young enough to be Connelly's daughter.

It's only a matter of time before someone who saw that episode of "Nature" pitches a horror movie about mutant wolves/werewolves from Chernobyl.

Probably slipped Levine's mind.  Things just get so crazy; living life gets hard to do.

Yeah, Gutfeld kissed Malkmus's ass, and he had a cameo in an episode of Louie.  Seems to me like that's more than enough to give him a pass here.

Gutfeld is an outspoken atheist, actually, and he's about as representative of Fox as The Simpsons.  If I had to side with either, it'd be him.

Why can't monsters get along with other monsters?

I like Serge Gainsbourg, I love Joann Sfar, and I loved the trailer for this movie, which I was naturally prepared to also love, but I sort of hated it.  It's elliptical in the worst possible sense:  There's practically no significance associated with how these women came into Gainsbourg's life or how they affected…

Amadeus is pretty much worthless as musical history but brilliant in the terms Hipster Librarian described above.  Salieri's rivalry with Mozart and the perception of Salieri as a minor composer are not reflected in history as they are in the film.  Nonetheless, I get goosebumps watching F. Murray Abraham describe the…

I hope so too.  I saw the last Harry Potter film in 2D, at a theater that usually does a good job projecting movies properly, but the picture was as dim and murky as what usually happens with 3D.  I don't know if 2D prints are affected by a film having been shot or processed in 3D, but that seemed to be the case.

I feel like I'm shilling for it, but I'd definitely recommend DBAotD.  I'm picky when it comes to haunted-house movies, but I liked the stuff (the CG creature effects, the mythology) it's being criticized for — stuff I usually have a problem with.  I'd say I saw it with low expectations, but I've been eager to see it…

Yeah, apparently I got sick of italicizing shit by the second paragraph there.

I really liked Don't Be Afraid of the Dark and honestly would probably see it a second time.  I thought it was better than the Fright Night remake and much better than recent haunted-house fare like Insidious.

I've mentioned it before, but one thing I'm confident the "Catfish" filmmakers did is recreate events they missed early on, upon realizing their significance after the "story" of the film had taken shape.  Like, if they discovered a phone call or opening a parcel was of consequence only some time after the fact, they…

Incidentally, del Toro makes a Hitchcockian cameo in one of the shots toward the beginning of the Don't Be Afraid of the Dark.

I saw a screening of this and thought it was one of the best horror movies I've seen in years.  Practically every review insinuates that it's some sort of horror flick for kids, à la Gremlins, but it earns its R rating.  What's lacking in spatter is made up for in the intensity of the violence, in my opinion, whether…

Has anyone else seen a 1973 Hammer film called The Asphyx?  It's about a Victorian scientist/spiritualist who photographs the dead and discovers an entity that possesses people at the moment of death.  The entity looks almost exactly like Slimer, and the main character devises a way of capturing it by firing beams of…

Chicken necks?

Upper-middle-class honkies from broken suburban homes with money worries that distance the adult world from the wonderland of childhood.

When I saw the trailers for this, I assumed the girl was Holmes' daughter in the movie.  The only acceptable alternative would be to have the girl's mother played by Selma Blair.  Something has to explain the inheritance of that smooshed-face gene.