Various Artists: Bright: The Album If you’re going to put D.R.A.M. and Neil Young together on the same song, do you really expect something subdued? Read More
Year by Year: Worst Summer Movies (1995-2004) 1995: Congo (Dir. Frank Marshall) Undoubtedly emboldened by the smash success of Jurassic Park (1993) and the lesser but still sizable box office takes of Rising Sun (1993) and Disclosure (1994), the Hollywood powers in the mid-‘90s were absolutely certain that anything that spawned from the writing desk of Michael Crichton was just waiting to be pressed into cinematic gold. … Read More
Men in Black III [xrr rating=3.75/5]The Men in Black franchise has always been anchored by two things: the thorny relationship between Agents J (Will Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones), and crazy-ass aliens. Throw in a few new space guns (as J repeatedly refers to them), some snarky references to weird celebrities being aliens and an extraterrestrial threat to the Earth, and you’ve pretty … Read More
Guilty Pleasures: Bad Boys 2 Get swept up in the trash you know you shouldn’t love. But somehow these cinematic wretches, warts and all, still warm our hearts. Michael Bay is a genius. Michael Bay is an auteur. Bad Boys 2 is Michael Bay’s masterpiece. These statements may sound like the ravings of a lunatic, but rest assured they’re far more rational than they appear. … Read More