Zombie Apocalypse

by Scott Von Doviak

When future generations look back on us and our cultural obsessions, they’ll have many questions. Why so many TV shows about cakes? How did Charlie Sheen keep getting work? And what was the deal with our endless fascination with zombies? Of course, this assumes that these future generations aren’t eaten by zombies before they get a chance to ask these questions, and at this point, we probably shouldn’t count on that. In a day and age when the CDC is issuing pamphlets on how best to prepare for the coming zombie apocalypse, we simply can’t take anything for granted.

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Nick Schager Reviews Paranormal Activity 3

The activity is pretty normal in Paranormal Activity 3, at least relative to its predecessors. The gimmick this time around is that the story is a prequel, detailing the initial 1998 spooky encounters with unseen ghosts by young sisters Katie (Chloe Csengery) and Kristi (Jessica Tyler Brown), all of which are shrugged off by mom Julie (Lauren Bittner) and videotaped by the ever-watchful gaze of loving stepdad Dennis’s (Christopher Nicholas Smith) multiple cameras.

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The Fifty Greatest Cult Movies of All Time

by Phil Nugent & Andrew Osborne

“Cult movie” is a hard thing to pin down. For the purposes of this list — celebrating the tenth anniversary of Donnie Darko — we’ve put a premium on the intensity and selectiveness of a movie’s appeal. We’ve also limited each director to one film. See you at midnight!

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Vadim Rizov Reviews My Week With Marilyn

My Week With Marilyn is a minimally thought-through Oscar nomination campaign for Michelle Williams’ showy and impressive performance/impersonation of Marilyn Monroe, the core of a film that barely exists. Based on two memoirs by Colin Clark about the tortured production of the 1957 Laurence Olivier-directed comedy The Prince and the Showgirl, this might more accurately be titled My Week Of Seriously Thinking I Had A Reasonable Chance of Having Sex with Marilyn Monroe.

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There But For the God of Grace

 

by Leonard Pierce

This article is the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me.  Every time someone asks me why I hate Cubs fans so much, I’m just going to send them a link to it.  It’s a perfect encapsulation of their moronic faith in a team that has achieved the status of empire by relying on the fans not giving a shit if they win or lose.  Let’s watch!

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Nick Schager Reviews The Big Year

In the spirit of its bird-watching subject, The Big Year populates countless scenes with notable faces—Dianne Wiest! Brian Dennehy! Jim Parsons! Rashida Jones! Joel McHale! Corbin Bernsen?—and yet despite such stargazing, which also extends to its leads Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson, The Devil Wears Prada director David Frankel‘s film is a severely dim affair.

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Malkin: An Evil Cat That Never Shuts Up

by Leonard Pierce

In what has to be the top “You’ve got to be fucking kidding me” moment of the week, 24-hour full-service horrible human being Michelle Malkin has penned an article in which she condemns the Occupy Wall Street movement for…being a burden on the taxpayer.

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The Return of the Curse of the Incredible Two-Headed Marathon

by Paul Clark

In my younger days, I wasn’t much of a horror-movie fan. Having come fairly late to my movie love compared to some cinephiles out there, I made it a point to gobble up canonical classics in the course of my cinematic education. But in the process of doing so, I missed out on a lot of genre favorites, especially in the more populist genres such as Westerns and particularly horror films.

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Scott Von Doviak Recaps The Amazing Race

On tonight’s installment of “Why did they do that?,” two teams with a decided time advantage over the rest made an inexplicable airport blunder that could prove fatal. Except it doesn’t, because this is yet another lackluster episode in what is turning out to be a ho-hum season of The Amazing Race.

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Nick Schager Reviews Father of Invention

Wearing its convictions about deception, creativity, and the importance of being a really good daddy on its shopworn sleeves, Father of Invention traces the slow but inevitable personal and profession redemption of disgraced infomercial king Robert Axle (Kevin Spacey). Having become a billionaire creating cheesy product hybrids known as “fabrications,” a word that the script feels obligated to point out also means “lies,” and then been sent to jail after one of his gizmos maimed countless consumers, Axle remerges with long hair, a scruffy goatee, and an industry scarlet letter affixed to his chest.

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