March 9, 2010 – 12:20 pm | Comments

Spencer and John give their review of Cop Out, look back on the career of Michael Moore in honor of the release of Capitalism: A Love Story, and give their DVD picks of the week.

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Film Review – Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day
November 18, 2009 – 8:56 pm | Comments

Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day – I had really high hopes for this movie, despite the whole “sequel is never as good as the original” curse. I thought, same people, same sort of story …

Film Review – Special
November 16, 2009 – 11:02 pm | Comments

Michael Rapaport is a meter guy named Les who is participating in a pharmaceutical study that’s unexplained at the beginning of the film. He is keeping a journal so he can document the effects of …

Film Review – Quarantine
November 16, 2009 – 5:31 pm | Comments

An L.A. television journalist is doing a piece on firefighters. She interviews all the people at the station and gets some good footage. The station gets a call and she and her camera guy hop …

Film Review – Careful
November 15, 2009 – 7:56 pm | Comments

Careful, from 1992, is like a narrated silent film (yes, I know this means it is NOT silent, but maybe more like an old-timey grainy German film) where the narrator warns people not to do …

Film Review – Junebug
November 15, 2009 – 7:03 pm | Comments

Junebug is an odd movie about a husband and wife who live in Chicago. The wife owns an art gallery and hears about this insane artist that lives near her husband’s family in the Carolinas. …

Film Review – Primer
November 15, 2009 – 6:51 pm | Comments

Primer is an independent film about these four guys who hang out and invent some high tech gadget – they never explain what it really is. These guys are all friends, but they argue like …

Film Review – The Orphanage
November 15, 2009 – 6:38 pm | Comments

The Orphanage (or El Orfanato in Spanish) is a movie from Spain about a husband and wife who buy a house on the coast and are renovating it to turn it into a home for …

Film Review – The Yes Men Fix The World
November 11, 2009 – 7:56 am | Comments

The Yes Men Fix The World is the sequel to The Yes Men, a documentary that followed the exploits of two men, as they attempted to show the lies of corporate America by conducting elaborate …

Film Review – RocknRolla
November 6, 2009 – 6:22 pm | Comments

RocknRolla is a film about London’s crime-driven underworld. Crime boss Lenny is working a real estate deal with a big-time Russian mobster. Lenny controls London and thinks he is untouchable, but the Russian proves him …

Film Review – In Bruges
November 6, 2009 – 5:56 pm | Comments

In Bruges is a film which kind of gave some mixed signals during the previews. I knew it had Colin Farrell in it, so I just assumed it would be a movie for the ladies, …