Film Purgatory

If you’ve seen as many movies as I have, you’ll start noticing a trend in certain genres. Action movies will always feature unnecessary “gun-fu” or car chases, romantic comedies will star an obnoxiously unfunny loser who gets the girl by being a creep, and horror films will feature the same recycled slasher tropes time and time again. Enter the “movie movies”: parody movies d...

The James Bond franchise was put on ice after the critical failure of Die Another Day, which signaled the end of Pierce Brosnan’s 007 run. For the next three years, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer struggled to decide what direction to take with the franchise. That was until Martin Campbell came into the picture. Despite the film already having a script from 2004, Campbell rewrote much of...

I think I’ve reached a new low, folks. If I ever thought there was a movie hell, I have officially reached it. So, if you thought the life of a private citizen, working a 9-to-5 job and raising kids while trying to put a roof over your head and food on your table, all while suffering from no health insurance, was tough enough, then clearly you haven’t been through the life of...

Has hell finally frozen over? The impossible has finally been done: Uwe Boll has made a movie that I actually like! I never thought the day would come. Or rather, the day I found this little gem. Like most of Boll’s filmography, Postal is a loose video game adaptation starring many famous actors in Hollywood, most notably the invincible, the outrageous, and utterly terrifying...