it’s time to introduce a basement category, a beneath-contempt classification for movies that are truly horrible but are perhaps intended to be horrible, so to acknowledge them among the worst would be to do them a perverse honor. In that category this year, we find “The Collection,†about a masked maniac who tricks a lot of very naive young people into thinking they’re at a nightclub …
You know those movies they couldn’t pay you to see? Well, guess who they do pay.
NEW YORK – On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Kathryn Bigelow was in an editing room, in post-production on K-19: The Widowmaker, her Russian nuclear sub thriller, when word of the attack on the twin towers reached her.
The Avengers”: The pure enjoyment offered by the Marvel mega-event showed that sometimes it’s not great art, but great commerce that expresses the magic of the movies. The summer popcorn hit not only broke the box-office bank, it lived up to expectations and healed the wounds from the 2003 “Hulk” movie by introducing a new big green guy, Mark Ruffalo, with just the right tone of wry empathy….
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I’m not sure that there’s ever been a film franchise that has gotten as much mileage out of mainly bad films as the Resident Evil franchise. Apparently it was all a clever ploy designed to lower our expectations for Resident Evil: Retribution because this film…wasn’t that bad…
COWGIRLS & ANGELS Directed by Timothy Armstrong Starring Bailee Madison and James Cromwell Distributed by Movie Magic Sdn Bhd
This week’s new movies include “Django Unchained†and the much anticipated “Les Miserables.†Both films feature star-studded casts.
Critics consistently make hay out of pointing out the flaws in movies – but very rarely do the flicks themselves talk about how much they sucked.