After watching Death Sentence, a terrible movie starring Kevin Bacon as a father in search of vigilante justice directed by Saw's James Wan, Gabe embarked on The Hunt For The Worst Movie of All Time. This is his sad journey.
Dec 20th, 2010 114 Comments
Guys, can we all just agree that families are weird? It's 2011. Can we just finally for once and for all recognize that there are both good and bad things about families, and that it is definitely… Read Story »
Dec 13th, 2010 142 Comments
As we all know, there is no such thing as the "War on Christmas." It's a cynical, manipulative, disingenuous ploy on the part of Bill O'Reilly and FOX News to (annually) stir the Angry Hatred and… Read Story »
Dec 6th, 2010 180 Comments
In the first 10 minutes of Jingle All the Way, before we even get into the slapstick, crime-laden, immoral plot, we learn that Arnold Schwarzenegger is a negligent father who doesn't spend enough… Read Story »
Nov 29th, 2010 226 Comments
We have talked a few times in the past couple of months about the difficulty in finding something new to say about love, because of what a well-worn topic it is (perhaps the wellest worn?) but also… Read Story »
Nov 22nd, 2010 416 Comments
So, we need to select the next round of nominees in the Hunt, and I was thinking: what if we did a condensed block in December of JUST holiday movies? Wouldn't that be MAGICAL? No. It would not be… Read Story »
Nov 15th, 2010 408 Comments
American Beauty won the 1999 Academy Award for Best Picture. Whoops! This is a pretentious, misguided, ham-fisted film. But the Academy's decision actually makes more sense if you look at what the… Read Story »
Nov 8th, 2010 236 Comments
When A History of Violence first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005, Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott reported in an early version of a New York Times "blog" that there were boos in the… Read Story »
Nov 1st, 2010 330 Comments
Let's be clear about something right at the top: (500) Days of Summer is not the Worst Movie of All Time. Come now. It's not even the Worst Movie of the past two weeks. That would be Couples Retreat.… Read Story »
Oct 25th, 2010 193 Comments
Somehow, against all odds, there is still a lot to be said about the complications of romantic love. That shouldn't really be the case. So much has already been said about it! It's a topic that… Read Story »
Oct 18th, 2010 200 Comments
This weekend, I went to go visit my family. It was a very quick trip, flying out on Saturday and flying back on Sunday, but sometimes with your family that's what you do. It was like that movie Up in… Read Story »
