Brainfart’s newest publication, 20 Movies You Probably Haven’t Seen Reviewed By Some Guy You Don’t Know, is now available in Kindle format exclusively from Amazon. As the name implies, it contains reviews of 20 movies that most people haven’t seen. Some of them are obscure, some are famous flops, and others are too weird for […]
Before I start the review, I want to thank Josh Burnett, Leighton Connor, Jeffrey Johnson, and Carter Newton. We discussed the movie during the monthly Hex Games Skype meet-up last night, and during the discussion they said some of the things I wanted to say in this review much better than I would have said […]
This review contains some spoilers, but that probably doesn’t matter because I doubt you’ll want to see the movie by the time we’re done. Krampus starts out looking like a standard Christmas movie with Adam Scott and Toni Collette’s family getting ready for the arrival of Collette’s sister, her Cousin Eddie-like husband (David Koechner), and […]
Vin Diesel is kind of an enigma. The first, second, and third impression of him is that he’s a dumb but sincere bro type who honestly believes he’s making great movies. But every now and then it seems like he might actually be in on the joke: he does an interview that borders on articulate […]
If you’ve seen the trailers, you know that The Martian is about Matt Damon getting stranded on Mars and growing potatoes while NASA tries to come up with a plan to save him before he starves to death. In that respect, the movie doesn’t hold many surprises. There are the expected complications, but that’s pretty […]
Hellbenders is the story of the Augustine Interfaith Order of Hellbound Saints, which is basically the nuclear option for getting rid of demons. The idea is that when exorcism and other demon-banishing tricks just won’t work, a hellbound saint will allow himself to get possessed and then commit suicide, dragging the demon to Hell with […]
I’ve always thought of the first half of the 80s as sort of a golden age of comedy film: the Not Ready For Primetime Players were branching out into movie careers, guys like Lands, Reitman, and Ramis were really figuring out what they were doing behind the camera, and the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker parody formula hadn’t gotten […]
I have a confession to make: I’ve never listened to Pet Sounds. At least not as an album; Looking over the track list, I have heard a lot of the songs, and a couple of them would be at the top of my list if somebody asked me to name the best Beach Boys songs. […]
The Wolfpack is clearly intended as one of those “reality is stranger than fiction” documentaries, but I don’t really buy it. The movie tells the story of the six Angulo brothers (Bhagavan, Govidnda, Jagadisa, Krsna, Mukunda, and Narayana), who live with their mother, father, and sister in a 4-bedroom apartment on New York’s Lower East […]
There are some movies that you don’t necessarily want to see, but you have to see. This is especially true of sequels. I saw the third Batman movie mostly out of curiosity. I saw the third Hobbit movie because not seeing it would be like quitting a race in view of the finish line. With […]
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