This week on the HomeVideodrome podcast, Hunter reviews Lars Von Trier’s “Melancholia” and “Atlas Shrugged Part I,” Jim offers up his love for William Wyler’s “The Collector” and we both talk about our love of “The Cannonball Run,” all while
In this week’s edition of the HomeVideodrome podcast, Jim Dirkes and I discuss education documentaries, review Kevin Smith’s Red State and go through this week’s releases, including Cars 2, Cop Land, and Quigley Down Under. So be sure to go,
This week’s HomeVideodrome podcast finds us debating the pronunciation of the last name of John Cazale, discussing the lovely disposition of Tommy Lee Jones, as well as the goings on at the Austin Film Festival. Of course, we also go
This week’s HomeVideodrome podcast rambles from film festival cards, to Frank Miller comics, along with how awesome Guns of the Navarone is. So go listen as we stumble on through it! When the first ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ movie came
Be sure to head go listen to this week’s HomeVideodrome podcast! This week Jim and I discuss Morgan Spurlock’s desperate need for attention, movies about eating, the turd that is Green Lantern, and how rad Jet Li movies are. So
Before Peter Jackson reached Steven Spielberg levels of Hollywood mainstream acceptance, he was a chubby, hairy kid in New Zealand who loved making movies with tons of laughs provided by oceans of blood and gore. Jackson’s first feature, Bad Taste,
Be sure to go listen to the latest episode of the HomeVideodrome podcast, where Jim Dirkes and I go off on tangents about Don Dokken, the horror that is the new sit-com Whitney, and how iTunes & NetFlix think we
Head on over to The Film Thugs blog to listen to the second episode of the HomeVideodrome podcast! Folks, last week was overstuffed with new releases, this week is a bit of a dry spell. One of the bigger releases
Before we get into it, please take a moment to go check out the brand spankin’ new HomeVideodrome podcast, an audio companion I’ve done for this column with Jim Dirkes of The Film Thugs Movie Show. Be warned that there
When I first saw Brian De Palma’s Scarface, a decidedly eighties remake of the classic Howard Hawks gangster movie, I loved it. I was a teenager, the perfect age to see Tony Montana’s dizzying rise in the Miami underworld, followed
This week we’re getting four Coen brothers classics on Blu-ray in a handy box set, as well as released individually: Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Fargo, and Miller’s Crossing (though Fargo has already been made available). The Coens specialize in bizarre
Jodie Foster’s The Beaver was one of the more controversial releases this year, thanks to the latest highly publicized incidents during the production surrounding its lead actor, Mel Gibson. Once Hollywood’s greatest working leading man, Gibson has descended to a
Pardon me if I become a bit of a shill for a moment. In my home of Memphis, Tennessee, a local Christian optometrist named David Evans decided to make a film with his own money, in an effort to help
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are dynamite as a comedic duo, as Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz are two of the best comedies of the past decade. Paul is their first outing sans the directorial guidance of Edgar
We movie fans love our Blu-ray and DVD collections, our shelves overflowing with the titles we love, but pretty soon they’re going to be like vinyl records, premium product for the die-hard consumer. It’s no big statement to point out
The biggest release this week, for this movie fan anyway, is the Blu-ray of John Milius’s masterful fantasy epic, Conan the Barbarian. No doubt this is being put out to lead up to Marcus Nispel’s upcoming interpretation of the character,
Is it just me, or did John Landis movies like Animal House and Blues Brothers help pave the way for comedy as we know it today? Before he started accidentally killing children and famous actors on his set, John Landis
Here it is, fans of Jackie “The Great One” Gleason, the wait is finally over: Otto Preminger’s weirdo comedy curiosity item Skidoo is now available on DVD. While it came out before counter-culture exploded into mainstream cinema with Easy Rider,
Rango is an animated acid-western that’s fun for the whole family, a sentence I never imagined I would write. Johnny Depp voices the titular character, a chameleon who fancies himself an actor, using the only co-star he has at his
If you want to see how rude and inconsiderate people are capable of being, chances are going to the movies is a sure-fire way to find out. Bad behavior is something that is practically expected when you attend a multiplex
Listen, I know a lot of you out there love Wall-E. I know a lot of people squeal with delight when he chirps his name, or when he sighs the name of his true love, Eva, a floating robot that
If Zack Snyder has shown us anything with his movies, it’s that the guy has an agenda when it comes to directing that is as follows: Make everything look really cool Other stuff This is not an attack against Snyder,
Cedar Rapids is an example of a cancer in American movies, a horrible disease that has befallen independent movies. Every year a movie pops out from Sundance that seems to be the little indie movie that could. This would be
I’ve seen a lot of weird movies in my day; it’s safe to say I seek them out. I once saw a flick that depicted a “post-apocalypstick” world where men have devolved into apes, and the women of the world
Today, you can’t swing a dead cat at the movie theater without hitting another big budget adaptation of a comic book property. I remember when I was a kid, I’d lurk around the local comic book shop and devouring any
