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Friday movie roundup – Aug. 20
Five films opened in wide release this weekend. Only two of them were screened for critics -- and here in Portland, the screenings were at the same time. Those would be "The Switch" (review at Film.com) and "Nanny McPhee Returns" (review nowhere, on ...
Eric’s Bad Movies needs yet more bad movies
It is time once again for you to tell me the names of movies that I should cover in "Eric's Bad Movies" at Film.com. Whenever I think I have run out of good (i.e., bad) options, I issue a request like this and you people come through with films I nev...
Friday movie roundup – Aug. 6
You may be aware that I have a soft spot for Will Ferrell, but "The Other Guys" really does feel like his best mainstream comedy since "Anchorman." After the screening, I heard one of the other critics say, "This is the first time I've ever seen Will...
Friday movie roundup – July 30
In keeping with the official theme of summer 2010 -- "Eh, Good Enough" -- this week's new wide releases are all B-minuses. They fall within the "good" range, but not very far into it. They're good enough that I wouldn't try to discourage anyone who w...
Friday movie roundup – July 23
It's a weekend of girl power at the moving-picture shows! The better of the two options is "Ramona and Beezus" (review at Film.com), a perfectly pleasant (if narratively jumbled) G-rated confection based on the beloved children's books. Don't see it ...
Friday movie roundup – July 16
Go see "Inception" (review at Cinematical) because it is good and trippy and smart and you will like it, the end.
And if you have to see "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" -- because you have children or something -- eh, it won't hurt.
For further rea...
Friday movie roundup – June 25
Here are your instructions. First, see "Toy Story 3," if you haven't already done so. If you have seen it, then you are permitted to see "Knight and Day," a fairly good action comedy starring Tom Cruise as a crazy federal agent and Cameron Diaz as th...
Friday movie roundup – June 18
"Toy Story 3" is easily the best movie of the year so far. That isn't saying much, given what a mediocre year it's been, but still. Even in a good year it would have to be in the top 10. I look forward to everyone seeing it so that we can talk about ...
Friday movie roundup – June 4
There are four new wide releases this weekend, none of which are going to make any money, and the summer is going to get sadder and sadder for the people in Hollywood whose jobs depend on making people go to the movies.
"Get Him to the Greek" is a...
Friday movie roundup – May 28
So there's "Sex and the City 2" (review at Cinematical). That happened. It's 2 1/2 hours long, which is just uncalled for, and even shallower and more superficial than before.
In slightly better news, "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" (review ...
Friday movie roundup – May 21
The surprising thing about "MacGruber" (review at Cinematical) is that despite being based on a "Saturday Night Live" sketch, it's not terrible. I know! Believe me, we were as astonished as you are, when we saw it at South By Southwest in March. The ...
Eric’s Bad Movies & What’s the Big Deal? – May 13
Last weekend I was on the phone with my friend and sidekick Jeff Bayer, of "Movie B.S. with Bayer and Snider," trying to get him to help me watch "The Apple" for Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com.
"What's it about?" he asked.
I read from the Netfli...
Give a little money to the ‘Adults’
This is the part where I ask you to give $10 to an independent film that I honestly believe is worthwhile, and that also happens to include my huge fat face for about 90 seconds.
The film is called "The Adults in the Room," and it was made by my f...
Some ‘lost’ editions of Eric’s Bad Movies
A while back someone suggested the first "Teenage Mutant Ninjas Turtles" for Eric's Bad Movies, and I thought, "Didn't I already do that one? I distinctly remember doing that one." But I looked through the EBM archives and found no sign of it. Turns ...
Eric’s Bad Movies & What’s the Big Deal – May 6
Since there's that documentary called "Babies" coming out this week, now seemed like as good a time as any to cover "Baby Geniuses" for Eric's Bad Movies.
Not that there is ever a good time for this. I had seen "Baby Geniuses" before, back in 1999...
Congratulate me on my blessed event
So here's what happened to me this morning. I arose at my customary hour and went about my usual routine. The specifics of the hour and the routine are of no import. The only unusual thing was that my lower back was hurting when I got up, but even th...
Friday movie roundup and many other things – April 30
This week's new films, plus Eric's Bad Movies, What's the Big Deal?, Cinemaligion, Tribeca, and more, all crammed into one tender, juicy blog post.
The remake of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is fairly bad, mostly in the ways you'd expect: not scary...
Friday movie roundup – April 23
Bad news, everybody! Both of the new releases this weekend are bad. "The Losers," which wants very much to be "The A-Team," is the kind of bad that's bearable. But "The Back-Up Plan," starring Jennifer Lopez as a woman who gets artificially inseminat...
Friday movie roundup – April 16
Aside from a documentary a few years ago called "F***," I think "Kick-Ass" is the first movie I've reviewed whose very title won't appear in some newspapers. I know my mom certainly won't say it! She's OK with "Kick-Arse," though, which I assume is w...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Jaws 3-D’
This week's edition of Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com isn't just another instance of me making fun of something terrible. It's the 100th instance of me doing that. Yes, if I'd been paid $1 for each Eric's Bad Movies column I wrote, I would now have en...
How to listen to Movie B.S.
Jeff Bayer and I did the first edition of our new Internet show, "Movie B.S. with Bayer and Snider," last Friday on PDX.fm. There were no reports of injuries or damages, and the studio was not on fire when we finished, so we consider it a success. At...
I’m co-hosting a new Internet show!
My friend and fellow critic Jeff Bayer and I are thrilled to announce a new Internet-radio program launching tomorrow, April 2: "Movie B.S. with Bayer and Snider." (Do you get it???) For an hour every Friday, starting at 11 a.m. Pacific, we will broa...
Friday movie roundup – March 26
Those of you who subscribe to my weekly "In the Dark" e-mail -- and those of you who don't should -- probably noticed that, as of today's edition, it's finally in HTML. That means instead of seeing an ugly URL for a link, you can simply click on the ...
Eric’s Bad Movies & What’s the Big Deal? – March 25
For What's the Big Deal? at Film.com this week, I figured I might as well tackle the big one, "Citizen Kane," which even people who haven't seen it know is "the best movie ever made." Entire books have been written on the subject, so I just tried to ...
Friday movie roundup – March 19
I'm of no use to you this week on the wide releases, as all three of them screened while I was at South By Southwest. But one of them is "The Bounty Hunter," which is surely terrible, so you don't need my help there. The others, "Repo Men" and "Diary...
Eric’s Bad Movies & What’s the Big Deal? – March 11
Someone suggested the 1986 horror comedy "House" as a candidate for Eric's Bad Movies, and while it looked promising -- some fairly negative reviews, William Katt from "The Greatest American Hero" as its star -- it wasn't an obvious slam-dunk like so...
Friday movie roundup – March 5
Sorry if we made your RSS feeds go all kerfooey yesterday. We were doin' something with the blog and the Twitters and so forth. This Friday Movie Roundup, now officially very late, is here for archival purposes, and for the benefit of those whose onl...
Eric’s Bad Movies & What’s the Big Deal? – March 3
So a friend of mine, for reasons known only to him, watched "Texas Chainsaw Massacre II" not long ago, and told me it would be suitable for Eric's Bad Movies. I believed him. However, I knew that there were two more theatrical sequels in that franchi...
What’s the Big Deal? needs big deals
About four months ago, I started a new weekly column at Film.com called What's the Big Deal?, in which we examine a movie widely considered to be "great" or a "classic" and lay out what, exactly, the big deal about it is. Here's the introduction I ga...
Eric’s Bad Movies needs bad movies
Ever since Eric's Bad Movies debuted at Film.com, almost two years ago, you guys have been extremely helpful in suggesting suitable films. In fact, of the 95 movies I've covered as of this week, probably 15 of them were ones I'd never even heard of u...
Vote in the TSR Movie Awards
My friend Jeff Bayer's site, The Scorecard Review, is hosting its 8th annual TSR Movie Awards, in which the films of 2009 are judged not by snooty, knowledgeable, well-informed members of the Academy, but by YOU, whoever you are. They're arranged by ...
Friday movie roundup – Feb. 26
Our two new wide releases this weekend are both surprises, one good and one bad.
"Cop Out," the first film to be directed by Kevin Smith without also being written by him, is the bad one. It's a surprise because the trailers were pretty funny, and...
Eric’s Bad Movies & What’s the Big Deal? – Feb. 25
One of the earliest subjects of Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com was "Superman IV: The Quest for Peace." I knew in my heart that "Superman III" was also a good candidate, but I resisted it because I had fond memories of it from my childhood. I was 9 whe...
Friday movie roundup – Feb. 19
We have but one new wide release this weekend, but it's a good one. 'Tis Martin Scorsese's "Shutter Island," in which a Boston version of Leonardo DiCaprio thinks something sinister is afoot at an isolated hospital/prison for the criminally insane.
...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘D-War: Dragon Wars’ (2007)
This week's edition of Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com deals with the redundantly titled "D-War: Dragon Wars," a direct-to-video movie that somehow finagled its way into actual theaters in 2007. This is the most recent film I've done in Eric's Bad Movi...
Friday movie roundup – Feb. 12
Just in time for Valentine's Day comes "Valentine's Day," a movie about Valentine's Day! It stars 143 famous actors and actresses and isn't funny, but at least it's too long.
Then there's "The Wolfman" (review at Film.com), starring Benicio Del To...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Night of the Lepus’ (1972)
Man, you go out of town for 11 days, then come home for four, then leave again for four, and everything just piles up on you. Between Sundance and last weekend's delightful experience at the Oxford Film Festival, I feel like I'm still recovering from traveling and eating and not sleeping (and then sleeping too much), and overdoing some things and underdoing other things. That is why this post is late, I guess.
A handy Sundance link dump
The Sundance Film Festival ran from Jan. 21-31; here, merely eight days later, is a summary of all the Sundance-related content I produced, gathered into one handy location.
My daily diary entries are gathered into one feature article here: Eric D...
Friday movie roundup – Feb. 5
Howdy, y'all! I say that because I'm in Oxford, Miss., which is in the South, and "howdy y'all" is a thing that people in the South say. Let me know if I'm over-explaining myself.
I'm here (for the third year!) for the Oxford Film Festival, servin...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘The Pagemaster’ (1994)
Want to see Macaulay Culkin turn into a cartoon and be harassed by sentient hardcover books? It's actually not as good as it sounds. It's "The Pagemaster," and it's the subject of this week's edition of Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com.
Hey, remember...
Friday movie roundup – Jan. 22
This will be one of those very quick Friday Movie Roundups where I just list the movies and say yay or nay, no idle chit-chat, cuz I'm at Sundance and things is hoppin'! Specifically, the snow. The snow is hoppin'. The forecast calls for continued sn...
Various items of updatery
Here is what's happening at Eric D. Snider Enterprises these days!
As you may recall, I'm on the Governing Committee of the Online Film Critics Society, and we're trying to increase the group's relevance in the lives of people who aren't film crit...
Friday movie roundup – Jan. 15
I appear to be in the minority, but I liked "The Book of Eli," a post-apocalyptic graphic-novel-looking drama starring Denzel Washington. He has this book, you see, and a bad guy wants it. The book is important! This message brought to you by the U.S...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Cool World’ (1992)
"Cool World" holds the distinction of being one of the few movies I've ever walked out of. It was the weekend it opened, in July 1992, and my friend Gregg Johnson and I went to see it. Halfway through, we were terribly bored, and we left. My journal ...
Friday movie roundup – Jan. 8
Ah, January. How sad your box office is.
Expanding to wide release after a limited Christmas Day opening is "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus," now famous for being Heath Ledger's last movie. It's also Terry Gilliam's latest Weird Thing That On...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Firewalker’ (1986)
After taking a break for the holidays, Eric's Bad Movies and What's the Big Deal? are both back at Film.com this week, thus providing millions of readers with additional reasons to live. I am glad to provide this service.
Eric's Bad Movies is "Fir...
Top OFCS Awards go to ‘Hurt Locker’
I'm a member of the Online Film Critics Society, and am currently serving on the three-person Governing Committee, which obligates you to refer to me as Governor Snider. But that is beside the point. The point is that our 143 members have voted on th...
Friday movie roundup – Dec. 18
Did you know that there is a movie called "Avatar"?? It was made by James Cameron, his first non-documentary feature since "Titanic," 12 years ago (almost to the day). Considering it's not a sequel or based on a book or a superhero or anything, it's ...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Jack Frost’ (1996)
Here's a first for Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com: a movie that has the same title as another Bad Movie I already wrote about. The title is "Jack Frost." Last year we covered the one from 1998, with Michael Keaton as a father reincarnated as a snowman...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Frogs’ (1972)
Disney's new animated film "The Princess and the Frog" opens in wide release tomorrow, so I thought I'd look at another amphibian tale for Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com: "Frogs." The title, the film's poster, and other elements lead you to believe th...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Jack’ (1996)
Robin Williams is responsible for many atrocities against cinema, and "Jack" -- the subject of this week's Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com -- is, well, one of them. I'm not going to say it's the worst. How can you quantify a thing like that? It's prett...
Wednesday movie roundup – Nov. 25
What would Thanksgiving be without turkeys? "Ninja Assassin," a mindless bloodbath that manages to be boring despite being full of brutal murders, is pretty bad. But it's no match for "Old Dogs" (review at Cinematical) an atrocity starring John Travo...
Business, items of: Thanksgiving week
First, due to popular demand -- and due to "New Moon" being really, really easy to make fun of -- this week's Snide Remarks is my rejected "New Moon" screenplay. These things practically write themselves.
At Film.com, the new What's the Big Deal? ...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Dracula 2000’ (2000)
Since it's vampire week in America, I've focused my Film.com columns on a fellow by the name of Dracula. What's the Big Deal? on Tuesday was about the original Bela Lugosi "Dracula," and today's edition of Eric's Bad Movies is on "Dracula 2000," a mo...
How the Rotten Tomatoes thing works
Last week I posted an angry letter I'd gotten from someone who has presumably found me via Rotten Tomatoes, and in the comments a couple readers asked questions about the Rotten Tomatoes thing. Namely: Do I choose the quote they use, or do they? And ...
Somehow, here’s a new Snide Remarks
Hey, look! It's a new "Snide Remarks" column! And it's about the time when I was really sad! It's called "The Great Depression." That's a play on words, see.
Also of note, as long as we're noting things: The National, an English-language newspaper...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Volcano’ (1997)
My choice for this week's edition of Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com was easy. With "2012" coming out tomorrow, the 1997 disaster flick "Volcano," which has been on my list of possibilities since the column began, immediately sprang to mind. It's actua...
Angry letter contains no facts!
Land sakes! We've got ourselves a good old-fashioned angry letter! It's been so long. Nowadays people usually just post their angry comments directly on the article that upset them. Very few people take the time to send an angry e-mail anymore. It's ...
Friday movie roundup – Nov. 6
It's a busy and strange week at the movies, with every new release being somehow weird or unusual. They don't all succeed, but at least they're trying something a little different.
The best thing you'll see is "Precious" (review at Cinematical) wh...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Surf Ninjas’ (1993)
"Surf Ninjas," ladies and gentlemen. "Surf Ninjas." That's the offender in this week's edition of Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com. I'm sure what I've written fails to describe exactly how punishing this movie is. There's nothing worse than a bad comedy...
New column: What’s the Big Deal?
Point your Internet thingee at Film.com today and you'll find a new column by yours truly: What's the Big Deal? (No -- that's the name of the column.)
The idea behind What's the Big Deal? is that there are many films the average person has heard o...
Friday movie roundup – Oct. 30
Hollywood has forsaken us, friends. The only new wide release this Halloween weekend is Michael Jackson's "This Is It," a concert film (sort of) that comprises footage from his rehearsals for what would have been a world tour. It's fitting that it sh...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘King Kong Lives’ (1986)
Poor King Kong. He was a mighty and fearsome creature in his original incarnation, terrifying the Depression-era pants off of audiences and inspiring a thousand imitations. But then there was the boring remake in 1976, followed by an even worse seque...
Friday movie roundup – Oct. 23
The biggest new release today is one of Hollywood's Shameful Secrets®, "Saw VI," the latest chapter in the impressively productive horror series. A new "Saw" film has come out every single year since the first one, in 2004; starting with "Saw III," t...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘The Next Karate Kid’ (1994)
This week's edition of Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com features "The Next Karate Kid," starring Hilary Swank and (of course) Pat Morita. Did you know that in real life Pat Morita was born in California to Japanese immigrant parents and spoke perfectly ...
Friday movie roundup – Oct. 16
The much-anticipated "Where the Wild Things Are" (review at Film.com) has some wonderful moments and many beautiful elements, but it didn't quite come together for me as a whole. The kid in it, Max Records, is terrific, though.
"Wild Things" is a ...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Death Wish: The Face of Death’ (1994)
All modern movies about vigilante justice owe something to "Death Wish" (including "Law Abiding Citizen," which comes out tomorrow), and it helped extend Charles Bronson's notoriety into another couple decades. The four sequels to "Death Wish" are, b...
The worst comic strip in the world
Here is Thursday's episode of a comic strip called Adams' Apples, which appears exclusively in my local paper, The Oregonian, and is not available online.
The artist, Jim Adams, is a local schoolteacher, and the strip is apparently autobiograp...
Friday movie roundup – Oct. 9
It's an unusually slow weekend for the movies, with just one new wide release. Martin Scorsese's thriller "Shutter Island" was supposed to open today but several weeks ago got pushed back to February, and nobody bothered to swoop in and take its plac...
Eric’s Bad Movies at Film.com: ‘Leonard Part 6’ (1987)
You could make a pretty strong case for Bill Cosby being the most successful and TV icon of all time. His shows include "The Bill Cosby Show" (1969-71), "The New Bill Cosby Show" (a variety show, 1972-73), "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids" (1972-76, wi...
Freaking out about the new FTC rules
The Twitters were twitting fervently Monday in response to the Federal Trade Commission's new guidelines requiring online writers to disclose when they have received freebies in exchange for reviewing a product. But much of the uproar and indignation...
Oh, the places I’ve gone!
Physically, I haven't gone anywhere lately. I had to miss my first-ever trip to the Telluride Film Festival because it coincided with my health problems, and then I had to miss the Toronto Film Festival because it coincided with none of the people I ...
Friday movie roundup – Oct. 2
Have you had that annoying Devo song "Whip It" stuck in your head all week due to the fact that a movie by that title is coming out today? ME TOO!! The movie's pretty good, though, a cheerful and funny coming-of-age story about a teenage girl who dis...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Meteor’ (1979)
The 1970s were a fertile time for disaster movies. At the tail end of the decade, when the genre's popularity was waning and most of the good disasters had been taken, some people made "Meteor," in which a giant asteroid threatens to hit our fair pla...
Friday movie roundup – Sept. 25
So someone at MGM must have seen the success of the "High School Musical" films and thought, "Hey! We own the rights to 'Fame' -- the original high school musical! We should PG-ify it and remake it for the modern generation!" And that's what they did...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Two of a Kind’ (1983)
Did you know that John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John were in another film together after "Grease"? And did you know that it was a baffling, illogical, poorly conceived romantic comedy called "Two of a Kind"? You did? Oh. Then you're ahead of me, be...
Friday movie roundup – Sept. 18
Your best bet this weekend, or at least the one that I can vouch for, is "The Informant!," starring Matt Damon as a naive Midwesterner who blows the whistle on corporate malfeasance. It's a jolly, goofy film with some real surprises (unless you alrea...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Stone Cold’ (1991)
Evidently there is a person called Brian Bosworth who was a football player, and evidently someone thought he should be in a movie, and that movie is called "Stone Cold." It is the topic of this week's edition of Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com.
Thank you for the nice things
My current bout with clinical depression has led to many comical experiences, and I will tell you about them soon, in the form of a special All-Crazy Edition of "Snide Remarks." But while I have greatly improved over the last couple weeks, I'm still ...
Friday movie roundup – Sept. 11
I can't imagine anyone's thrilled at having their movie released on Sept. 11. Maybe that's why the studios weren't very conscientious about screening them for critics -- they were hoping we wouldn't notice the movies were actually opening.
"Whiteo...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Sleepaway Camp’ (1983)
Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com is back after a brief hiatus -- well, it's back this week, anyway -- with "Sleepaway Camp," a routine slasher flick from 1983 that is best known for its bizarre, nonsensical twist ending. (Don't worry, I give the whole t...
‘All About Steve’ is a wonder drug
After several days of suffering almost nonstop from a heavy dose of clinical depression, last Monday night I started to crawl tentatively out of my funk (emotional and olfactory) and felt well enough to attend a movie screening. It was for "Extract,"...
Your fall TV season premiere dates
Info is gleaned from reputable online sources. New shows are marked with an asterisk (*). Times are Pacific and Eastern; you people in Mountain and Central already know you gotta subtract an hour, right? Don't ask why, that's just how it works. Look,...
An update on that leave of absence
I apologize for the vagueness of the note I left a few days ago, indicating I might be absent from my duties for a while. It wasn't that I didn't want to tell you what was going on, only that it was still too early to know the depth or extent of it, and, frankly, I didn't feel up to the task of explaining. But now I will explain.
I suffer from clinical depression. Or, more accurately, I HAVE clinical depression, but have not "suffered" from it in more than six years. I went on Lexapro in early 2003 to combat relatively mild depression and anxiety symptoms, and things have been fine since then. Friends have said in the last week, "I had no idea you had clinical depression!" And that's exactly the point -- the Lexapro (and its generic cousin that I switched to a couple years ago) did its job very well.
Temporary leave of absence
Hello, readers. I wanted to let you know that I'm having some health issues that might prevent me from posting much in the way of movie reviews and other features for the next little while. It's nothing serious, and there's no cause for alarm, but it...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Troll’ (1986)
"Troll 2" is a much more famous bad movie than "Troll," which it's allegedly a sequel to (but which it really has nothing to do with). But the first "Troll" is quite bad, and far more suitable for Eric's Bad Movies purposes. And so it is this week's ...
Friday movie roundup – Aug. 21
Quentin Tarantino's intentionally misspelled "Inglourious Basterds" opens today, and love it or hate it, there's no question it's a Quentin Tarantino film. If you've seen one of his previous works, you know what sort of shenanigans you're in for.
...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Krull’ (1983)
Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com brings you "Krull," a two-hour snoozefest about magicians and swords and kidnapped princesses and whatnot. This is another one that's been suggested several times, going back to when I first asked for Eric's Bad Movies s...
Friday movie roundup – Aug. 14
It's a very busy weekend for new movies, and guess what? They're all worth seeing! In August, which is often a poo month! It's like I'm living in a cuckoo clock!
"District 9," a much buzzed-about sci-fi thriller about a slum full of aliens (the ex...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘The Arrival’ (1996)
One of the hallmarks of a bad movie is when the main character is unlikable and the movie doesn't realize it. I saw this phenomenon over and over again in films featured in "Mystery Science Theater 3000" ("Mitchell," anyone?), and so I was alert to i...
Friday movie roundup – Aug. 7
Yeah, about that Friday movie roundup... I sort of had a couple screenings, you know? And then I had to clean up my apartment because I had a friend coming into town for the weekend? And then I had to pick him up at the airport and go be on the radio...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Cobra’ (1986)
Another week, another lame film from the 1980s starring Sylvester Stallone. There appears to be an infinite supply of these -- good news for Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com, which this week focuses on "Cobra." Brigitte Nielsen, Stallone's wife at the t...
Late links to ‘Snide Remarks,’ etc.
Whew! Such a day it's been! But enough about my personal life. Here's a new edition of "Snide Remarks," entitled "How Sweat It Is," about my perspiration habits.
Over at Film.com, "Mystery Men" is the subject of Eric's Ten-Year Itch. I also have a...
Friday movie roundup – July 31
Judd Apatow has been involved as a writer or producer on about a million comedies over the last few years, enough to make us forget that he's only actually directed two movies, "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up." "Funny People," opening today,...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Surviving the Game’ (1994)
Before he became the worst part of the increasingly hilarious "Law & Order: SVU," Ice-T starred in "Surviving the Game," a "Most Dangerous Game" rip-off that is the subject of this week's edition of Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com.
Does anyone h...
Friday movie roundup – July 24
I hate being the bearer of bad news, but none of this week's new releases are very good. The best of the lot is "G-Force" (review at Cinematical), about the guinea pigs who work as government spies, and even that's only a C+.
Quite a bit worse is ...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘The Good Son’ (1993)
Frodo Baggins and the kid from "Home Alone" throw down in "The Good Son," which is this week's subject in Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com.
As indicated by the diary entry that begins the column, I saw this theatrically -- on opening night! -- with s...
Update on the bad movie suggestions
Thank you, one and all, for your suggestions for the Eric's Bad Movies column (Thursdays at Film.com!). As always, my call to action has yielded many viable choices for future editions. More on that below.
First, let me explain (again) why I said ...
Friday movie roundup – July 17
The biggest movie of the week -- indeed, one of the biggest movies of the year -- opened on Wednesday. You might have already seen it. It's called "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." It was supposed to open last Thanksgiving, remember? And then...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Teen Witch’ (1989)
Earlier this week I asked for suggestions for Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com, and if you doubt the usefulness of making your voice heard, doubt no more! This week's entry, "Teen Witch," is the direct result of several people recommending it. I'd never...
