Casper VonSidecar is one lovable mutha%^&#er!

Friday the 13th. The original is heralded as a classic and yet the majority of its fandom cannot help but concede its overwhelming faults. I am among these apologetic enthusiasts; watching the originals and all the subsequent sequels on VHS all throughout middle school. I love the Jason character but the charm of the Friday the 13th series is its campyness and its loveably awful “acting”. At no point, even as a kid, was I afraid of Jason. The modern incarnations, X & Fvs.J, have actually onl… Continue

Wow. Wow. This was an unbelievable movie. Directed by Jim Jarmusch and starring, among many others, Johnny Depp. I am going to do my best to describe this movie in all its splendor. It's an epic poem played out in the Old West. It's the retelling of an American myth that does not exist. It's as simple as it is complex and metaphoric. With characters ripped from some sort of Dashiel Hammet/Zane Grey nightmare. It was beautiful and stunning and entertaining all without breaking stride. I loved it.… Continue

Every year I say this, and then the next year I eshew my distaste and blind optimism wins out. But then the fucking Academy pulls some fantastical bullshit almost every single time that makes me revert back to the bitter pesimist I am.

Are you fucking kidding me not nominating The Wrestler for best picture? I mean seriously, is this a joke? I don't care if you thought other films were better, I don't even care if you hated it. You cannot deny that the Wrestler is deserving of the chance to comp… Continue

I have to say I was dreading seeing this film. I loved the original after seeing it for the first time a couple of weeks ago and all I had heard about this remake is that it removes all the things that made me love the original and replaces it with a gimmick not used since the third installment of the Friday the 13th series. So I was dragging my feet to this, making snarky comments all the way. But as I sat there, waiting for the film to begin I started to feel this twinge in my testes. I decide… Continue

Kuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurosawa! He rocks my socks right the hell off! I have seen quite a few of his films by now and I have to say, my favorites were his non-samurai flicks. I don't know, it's just that some of his samurai movies are so epic and mystical that they border on pretention (no that's not fair, more like they seem like Kabuki plays which I have never enjoyed). Up until I saw this movie my favorite Kurosawa movie was one called Stray Dog in which a cop loses his… Continue