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Machine Gun Preacher: A Surprising and Gritty Message for All
12 Feb 2013 8:27 pm Anna Maria Hoffman

by Johnny Whichard

Introduction:
My roommate and I are both movie-nuts. At least once a week, we’ll make a bag of popcorn, enjoy a beer and watch a film. As a film major, I have seen hundreds (if not thousands) of films and I generally find my roommate’s fascination with sci-fi flicks hysterical. One night, however, he suggested the bizarrely named Machine Gun Preacher. I’ve been trying to pick my jaw back up off the floor ever since.
The film came out in 2011 and earned mixed-poor reviews from critics (Metacritic compiled a 43/100 score). …

The Dark Knight Rises: A Brief Review
30 Jul 2012 6:53 am John Hawkins

Box office totals for The Dark Knight Rises have slowed down considerably and most people are chalking it up to the James Holmes shootings in Colorado. A more likely explanation would be that it’s the weakest movie in the Batman trilogy by far.
First and foremost, it starts slow and at 165 minutes, it’s way too long. Thirty minutes could have easily been cut out of the movie and it wouldn’t have hurt it a bit. Additionally, even though Batman is a grim series, this seemed to have an unnecessarily …

A Review Of “Limitless”
24 Aug 2011 7:42 am John Hawkins

“Limitless” is now out on video and it is the ultimate nerd pr0n movie. There’s no anime, no action figures, and no video games — but it does fulfill the ultimate secret fantasy of every geek: The lead character gets to become the smartest, most capable man who’s ever lived.
It starts with writer Eddie Morra, whose life is slowly falling apart. He’s a dirty, disheveled, broke chainsmoker who can’t seem to get started on his big novel or keep the girlfriend he loves in his life.
But, all that changes …

“The Adjustment Bureau” is Worth Investigating
8 Mar 2011 12:37 pm Chris Yogerst

There are too many films that deal with existential dilemmas which provide a viewing experience that is more work than pleasure. The most notable films are those written by Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich) and while they have their purpose they are by no means relaxing films. Sometimes it is nice to have a thriller that is fun but also has a story with some depth. This is exactly what The Adjustment Bureau is going for. It’s good to just sit back and enjoy …

Who Is John Galt?
2 Mar 2011 12:07 pm Robert Stacy McCain

The makers of the new movie Atlas Shrugged: Part I have invited me to an exclusive screening today in Washington, D.C. Here’s the trailer:

They’ve taken a huge gamble, producing this ambitious film under a tight deadline and on a tight budget.
During the CPAC blogger bash at FreedomWorks, they previewed four scenes from the movie. Clearly, they’re hoping to generate major buzz before the film’s theatrical release on April 15.
Yeah: Tax Day. Pretty clever.
Learn more at the official Atlas Shrugged Movie site.
(Cross-posted at The Other McCain.)

‘I Love You Phillip Morris’ Doesn’t Provide Enough to Love
13 Jan 2011 11:39 pm Chris Yogerst

When Hollywood says something is a true story, do you believe it in full? If you do you may be under the age of twelve. If not you have likely seen enough films to realize that filmmakers like to change the truth quite often. Look at The Social Network from earlier this year. While it’s a great film, it appears to have fudged more than a few facts. Some people were up in arms about this, however, I was not. This is what Hollywood …

Some of the Unsung, Working Actors that Died in 2010…
4 Jan 2011 9:00 am Warner Todd Huston

We all know the really famous actors that died in 2010. But there was also a bunch of actors that, when you see their face, you’ll remember… if, that is, you were a big TV and film watcher during the 1950s, 60s, 70s and/or 80s.
Check out the familiar faces of the following 25 actors. The faces are familiar even if the names are not.
(in order from date of death)
RIP 2010

Bernard Kates
(Dec. 26, 1922-Feb. 2, 2010) Kates did stage, starred as Sigmund Freud on Star Trek, and starred on …

2010: The Entertainment Industry’s PC Year in Review
31 Dec 2010 11:15 am Warner Todd Huston

For the entertainment industry’s practitioners of political correctness, 2010 was another banner year. Even as conservatives have made deserved headway in La La Land and other areas of the industry, there still aren’t enough conservatives to bring much needed patriotism, logic, and common sense to the scene. Sadly, the industry is still filled with those slavishly dedicated to anti-American tropes, left-wing blather, and self-hatred. From comic books, to music, to radio, TV and movies, PCism still runs rampant.
Without further ado, here are just a few examples of PCism from 2010 …

Coen Brothers Master the Western with “True Grit”
27 Dec 2010 11:08 am Chris Yogerst

For years many people including myself have felt that the Western is dead. Sure, there have been a few to come around like Open Range and 3:10 to Yuma, but that’s nothing for a genre that was once so popular that Westerns were being pumped out weekly (on film and TV). Today it’s difficult to remember the last great Western to come out of Hollywood? Some would say Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven, arguably one of the best Westerns in history. That was twenty years ago, recent …

“Little Fockers” Administers a Double Dose of Blah
27 Dec 2010 11:06 am Chris Yogerst

This Holiday season Hollywood is apparently taking a break from Christmas movies. In fact, Hollywood seems to be having a serious love affair with remakes and unnecessary sequels. Who really asked for a reboot of The A-Team or Tron? Absolutely no one asked for MacGruber. So what is going on? Your guess is as good as mine, but here we are with a new film that now provides us with a Focker trilogy.
We catch up with the Focker clan years later after they have had …

Introducing the Monster Talent Agency
20 Oct 2010 12:02 am Warner Todd Huston

And now for something completely different. Very, very fun…

New Film ‘Machete’: Cynical Exploitation of America’s Racial Troubles
31 Aug 2010 8:00 am Warner Todd Huston

The new film Machete is born of a joke. No, really. In 2006 when Quentin Tarantino was gearing up for his double feature movie experience Grindhouse, he solicited other directors and even the fans to make fake trailers for bad 70′s exploitation moves. These trailers were shown between the two features in a takeoff of the coming attractions shown between movie features in those old 70s era B-picture film houses Tarantino was spoofing with Grindhouse. Machete was one of these over the top, fake movie trailers and it featured the …

A Tale of Two Anti-Semitic Rants: Oliver Stone’s Not So Bad, Mel Gibson’s Horrible
29 Jul 2010 12:05 pm Warner Todd Huston

Some of you may recall that early in the morning of July 28 of 2006 actor Mel Gibson was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving in Los Angeles, California. During that arrest, it was reported that Gibson was alleged to have launched into a brief but vehement denunciation of Jews that were “responsible for all the wars in the world.” Famed at the time for having produced and directed the film The Passion of the Christ (2004), Gibson’s anti-Semitic tirade was the feature of news reports throughout the media …

Democrats Force Captain America to Flee America
25 May 2010 10:17 am Warner Todd Huston

California’s Democrats have forced the upcoming Captain America movie to be filmed in England. Why would that be, Buckey? Because it’s just too expensive to film the movie in California because of the Democrat’s punitive taxes.
For Yahoo Movies, Mike Ryan asks a seminal question: Should We Now Call Him ‘Captain England’? In his lament, Ryan worries over the U.S. film industry as movies and TV shows flee America, specifically California, for the cheaper production rates of Canada and England.
And now Democrats are so concerned with propping up union thugs, forcing …

Liberal Fascism: The Font
10 May 2010 4:04 am Ed Driscoll

In a way, Helvetica is the font of liberal fascism; it’s certainly the font of corporatism. To borrow from one of the concluding memes of Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism, it’s the softer authoritarian nanny state of Brave New World, not the oppressiveness militarism of 1984.

Camelot and its Discontents: Mad Men on DVD
25 Apr 2010 4:00 pm Ed Driscoll

I have a lengthy (and spoiler-packed, for better or worse) review of the third season of Mad Men (now out on DVD) over on the Pajamas’ main page. Topics discussed include the show’s slightly skewed politics and history of the Kennedy-era 1960s, amongst other things.

Deutschland Deja Vu: The Baader Meinhof Complex
7 Mar 2010 4:30 am Ed Driscoll

Watching The Baader Meinhof Complex’s titular Teutonic terrorist gang in action on the small screen, I was struck by déjà vu of it all. A small but growing band of radicals with a penchant for street theater, wishing to smash capitalism and destroy the system from within, led by a fanatical, brawling leader, with at least one articulate well-bred intellectual within the inner circle. Starting off by blowing up small, bourgeois shops. Eventually hooking up with sympathetic allies in the Middle East. Then killing American soldiers. And when finally cornered, going out in a Gotterdammerung of mass suicide rather than face punishment from their captors. That’s never happened in Germany before

Avatar – The Review
21 Dec 2009 7:17 pm William Teach

So, I was bored this afternoon, chores done (except for a haircut), presents rapped, house clean. Movie time! I decided “what the heck, I’ll give Avatar a whirl.” Matinee rate of $9.25 for a 3-D movie. $10 for some darned good popcorn and a coke (I went to a different theater than usual. Screen was a bit smaller than my normal spot, but, sound was fantastic.) My overall grade would have to be an A/D. Why the two grades?
Visually, this was a completely stunning movie. I caught myself not thinking …

Twilight New Moon: 36 Hours Until Premiere
18 Nov 2009 11:17 am Melissa Clouthier

Just sayin’. And for your pleasure, a teaser. Don’t be a hater. You hate what you don’t understand.

And a pre-review review:

And for those of you who think I’m hijacking John Hawkin’s righteous right wing rantings, consider this payback for all the ranking hot girl pieces he’s done.
Edward Cullen is teh hawt. That is all.

New Hollywood Movie Says Islam Destroyed by 2012!
13 Nov 2009 10:26 pm Warner Todd Huston

Roland Emmerich’s new end-of-the-world disaster film 2012 has a rollicking good time destroying every monument to man’s architectural genius in the world. The Sistine Chapel goes kablooie, as does the Vatican and the giant Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. The White House gets flattened, too. All man’s most well known landmarks get turned to dust by Emmerich’s over-the-top movie effects team.
But by the time the year 2012 rolls around, director Roland Emmerich is obviously saying that Islam has already been wiped off the face of the Earth …

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