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I have a big collection of these. I love them all. I used to work in a bookstore, and it was known by all the booksellers that when they found these on the shelves (usually near Harry Potter, Twilight, or other Godless tomes) they were to bring them directly to me.

"Madea remains a distinctive, weirdly compelling character. Maybe someday Perry will make a good comedy for her."

The soundtrack is just one of three pretty great side projects that came out of NBK.

Guiseppe: I really disliked 'Flags of Our Fathers,' and also avoided 'Iwo Jima' for just that reason… but boy was I wrong. It's legitimately great. Give it a try.

I've re-read this book a number of times as well, and the write-up really nails most everything I feel about it. But the thing that always amazes me about it is just how purely terrifying it is. It may start a little slow, but once it gets humming it's a non-stop scare machine.

Walter Houston in 'The Devil and Daniel Webster,' and Emil Jannings in 'Faust' are pretty inspired choices… but how about some love for Benjamin Christensen playing Satan in (and also brilliantly directing) 1922's 'Haxan.' He's a creature straight out of a 16th century woodcut.

I fall for that EVERY TIME!

You're kidding about the 'book' thing, right?

Lemme see if I've got this straight.

Not to be that guy, but I'm gonna be that guy - Saving Private Ryan was D-Day, not the Battle of the Bulge.

In Part 5 of the doc, Carl Douglas - member of the defense team in the murder trial - bitches about the 33-year sentence as some sort of miscarriage of justice.

Movie riffing of great films is usually pretty disastrous.

The moment of violence in Blue Ruin that got me the most was when he goes to stab the tire on the family's car and his hand slides up the handle and onto the blade.

If you ever encounter someone who says "I don't care what people think about me" - run. Run away as fast as you can.

I always felt like Napoleon Wilson was a low-budget, proto-Snake Plissken.

I beg to differ. 'Grease' isn't bad because of that ending. 'Grease' is bad because the whole thing sucks,

For me it starts to clank as soon as Curry takes the elevator back up to his lab after 'Sweet Transvestite.' To be fair, that's partly because everything up to that point is a blast. But everything after is… less so.

I'm impressed by the thought you put into that.

Tom Hooper directing, huh? Can't wait for lots of unnecessary close-ups of actors in terrible cat make-up.

Man, good point. Bad couple years for Jareds.