Andymatic

Category: Movies/TV Reviews

  • Mommie Dearest and ABBA's Mamma Mia Remix

    This is a favorite all over the place but I’m sure some folks haven’t seen it. I hadn’t thought to look for it on YouTube but Ron had me cackling when in the middle of So You Think You Can Dance he turns to me and yells: Why can’t you give me!? The reSPECT!? That […]

  • An Inconvenient Truth

    We’re completely fucked. There’s no bones about it. This planet, this country is completely screwed in so many ways and unless Americans wake up and smell the glaciers melting. Al Gore helped spearhead the first Congressional hearings on global warming in the 70s and made it a centerpiece of his bid for president in the […]

  • Oscars 2006 – The 78th Academy Awards

    (spent the hour of the Oscars watching 24 on A & E but I did see the montage of homoerotic western quotes including Gregory Peck propositioning (was it?) Charlton Heston) I like all the constant references to how you can only experience the power of cinema in front of a big screen. I think this […]

  • The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

    I thought I’d rent the Wes Craven classic The Hills Have Eyes on the weekend release of it’s remake. And with taglines like: The lucky ones died first. and They burned the father, killed the mother and raped the sister! I knew exactly what I was getting myself into. I still found the movie pretty […]

  • Peeping Tom (1960)

    Oatmeal cooking in the micro. Just finished watching Peeping Tom, Michael Powell’s controversial 1960 horror film. Considered to be a pre-cursor to the slasher genre, the film destroyed Powell’s career for it’s commentary on sadism, voyeurism and entertainment (Hitchcock’s Psycho came 3 months later – ignited similar controversy – but was lauded). Powell’s favorite review […]

  • Why We Fight

    Whoo I’m drunk! Kevin and I met up for a good ol’ lefty meeting. We went to see Why We Fight. Why We Fight starts with Eisenhower’s presidential exit speech where he warns of the enroachment of the military-industrial complex and the documentary explores how Americans are inevitably drawn to war as a solution to […]

  • Just Like Heaven

    Wow does this movie suckity suck suck. I mean it is BAD. Reese Witherspoon plays a date-less (yeah right) doctor (yeah right) who gets attacked by a semi-truck and haunts her apartment that Mark Ruffalo rents and only he can see her and isn’t that just the funniest thing since polio? Hilarity does not ensue. […]

  • Hostel

    I wasn’t traumatized by Hostel. When a horror movie has this much hype I want to be freaked out and shaking in my Pampers. Yes, vomiting through a ball gag is gross. But, if you are going to show tin snips positioned on a toe you better show that toe coming off. I guess I […]

  • Rize

    Ron and I watched Rize last night. You may have seen the style of dance called krumping (or the precursor: clowning). Frenetic, slightly crazed and lightspeed neo-tribal – it reminds me of a whirling dervish. The movie takes place in the Watts neighborhood and surrounding areas. A guy named Tommy the Clown started it all […]

  • Lost, Season 1, Discs 1 & 2

    Sitting here at the cafe. Came here after brekkies (is that too Euro to call breakfast brekkies? It was too early to be second breakfast or elevensies). There’s a guy behind me scribbling like a madman on a yellow legal pad. He wrote the sentence: Illinois Masonic took my cum! I was going to turn […]