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Kevin Wolf posted I'm Afraid of "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" | 2 days ago
The advance reviews suggest that it's chock-full of George Lucas's typically tone-deaf "humor" and set-bound, bloodless CGI and green screen. Is there NOBODY that can stand up to his cheesy, lazy impulses? Back when Lucas and Spielberg and Ford were all successful but still hungry young filmmakers,...
Kevin Wolf posted "Speed Racer" | May 11, 2008
Some pop culture heresy is about to transpire here. First: I liked Iron Man very much. It's a fun, cool, exciting movie, and Robert Downey, Jr. is so at the top of his game, he's about to become one of the biggest movie stars in the world. However. I fucking LOVED Speed Racer. If I could inject this...
Kevin Wolf posted "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" | Apr 20, 2008
It's a funny, sweet little movie. I didn't laugh until tears ran (when was the last time I saw a movie I considered riotously funny? I don't know), but it had a couple good chuckles and probably will do well in repeat viewings. Anyway, all are funny, Mila Kunis is cute as hell, and the character of...
Kevin Wolf posted "Funny Games" | Mar 18, 2008
This movie is going to make a lot of people who see it very angry. It's being sold as a thriller, but it really isn't. It's a treatise on violence and sadism as "entertainment" and it hates the very audience the advertising seeks to entice. I never saw the original Austrian film that came out ten...
