Dead Cant Rant

Apatow puts together a brilliant send-up of the recent epic biopics of famous musicians Ray Charles and Johnny Cash. After laughing your ass off in every scene and at every song, watch the making-of extras on the DVD and you’ll really see how deep this movie was. As the man said, they had to force [...]

Iron Man was an excellent superhero movie. As movies go, it’s not the most dramatic, and there won’t be any Best Actor nominations coming out of it, but it is one hella fun way to spend an hour and a half.
The story was pretty straightforward, as any comic book movie will be. But I [...]

This movie was obviously written for one reason: to put Jackie Chan and Jet Li in a fight scene. A really, really, really long fight scene. That said, it’s actually a much better movie than I expected. I figured I would see a pretty lame flick that was written around one fight scene. Instead I [...]

Being a fan of Owen Wilson since his acting (portraying himself, as always) in Zoolander and his genius writing for The Royal Tenenbaums, I was still expecting this to be a pretty lousy movie. But in fact we were both pleasantly surprised by the moments of gut-busting geek comedy gold throughout the movie. With an [...]

We really wanted to like this movie. I’ve been very interested in the conflicts in Afghanistan for some time, and based on other reviews of this movie I had hoped to learn how the covert war against the Soviet Union was conceived, sold to the government, and conducted.
Instead what we got was a never-ending display [...]

We watched Sword of Gideon last night and I for one was profoundly disappointed. Nearly a year ago I read the book “Vengeance” on which the movie is based and while the movie was “generally” true to the book’s basic premise it was wildly inaccurate in several ways.
Of course, the book has been called “nonsense, [...]

We watched Fargo last night, after hearing for years that it was one of the greatest movies ever made. What a letdown. So depressing.
Seriously, what gives? How can people enjoy a movie so filled with utter depravity? If watching psychopaths commit random murders is your cup of tea, then fine, just keep your distance. And [...]

Revenge is a dish best served by anyone other than George Lucas. This man has single-handedly destroyed the greatest film series ever made. He kept America in suspense for six years as he fiddled with the magnificent creation that was (yes, was) Star Wars and it’s two sequels. Instead of a continuation of the epic [...]

1928. At first it was hard to imagine. This was your grandparents’ world, or maybe your great-grandparents’. But slowly and amazingly it became your world too. Maybe you just wished it was. Two handsome young people incredibly, achingly in love and married — to each other, no less, and raising a family together! But this [...]

Some people are upset about the recent film Downfall, which portrays the final few days in Hitler’s bunker from the perspective of his personal secretary. We had the distinct pleasure of seeing this movie a couple of weeks ago, and were absolutely stunned by both the film and the audience’s reaction.
Downfall accurately captures the events [...]