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A pile of Monday stuff
Today's "Snide Remarks" is "A Message from Claus Inc.," in which I make the bold comedic choice to pretend Santa Claus is having financial problems! See that cutting edge over there? Yeah, I'm on it.
Meanwhile, Eric's Time Capsule at Film.com feat...
Friday movie roundup – Dec. 5
The only super-wide release today is "Punisher: War Zone," a quasi-sequel to the lousy celebration of murder from 2004. This one's funnier, though not intentionally. Honestly, we were stunned that they screened it for critics at all. My review is at ...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Inspector Gadget’ (1999)
It's generally held that 1999 was a great year for movies, but there were some notable exceptions. One such misfire was "Inspector Gadget," which is the subject of this week's edition of Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com. I actually remember seeing this ...
Monday linkage and self-pimpage
The Monday after Thanksgiving is what the sports world calls a "bye week" for "Snide Remarks," also known as "I didn't write one." Who can work when he's surrounded by adorable nieces and nephews and vaguely appealing siblings and parents? The only p...
Support this site by doing almost nothing!
With the Unspecified Holiday Season having descended upon us, you have perhaps wondered, "How can my gift shopping benefit Eric D. Snider?" And the answer lies in the Amazon affiliate program, of which I am a member.
It's simple. Every time you pl...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Kull the Conqueror’ (1997)
Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com has your Thanksgiving turkey: "Kull the Conqueror," a goofy sword-and-sandals caper starring Kevin Sorbo in what was supposed to be the Arnold Schwarzenegger role, back when it was going to be a third Conan movie. Appare...
Wednesday movie roundup – Nov. 26
With today's batch of Thanksgiving releases, the Holiday Movie Season is officially underway! Get ready for Oscar bait, family-friendly shenanigans, and three-hour movies starring Kate Winslet.
First up this week: "Four Christmases," a lowest-comm...
Eric helps make fun of Police Beat
Over at the Mormon-themed blog By Common Consent, a few of the merry jesters occasionally do a feature where they read items from the Police Beat column in the BYU newspaper and make fun of them. Which is what everyone who reads Police Beat does, of ...
Friday movie roundup – Nov. 21
Today was originally going to be when the new Harry Potter film came out, so of course no other movies wanted to open this weekend. Then Harry got pushed back to next July, and two movies dashed in to take his place: "Twilight" and "Bolt." Apart from...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘The Avengers’ (1998)
This week's edition of Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com is "The Avengers" -- but don't get your hopes up for descriptions of exciting avenging action, for the movie contains no avenging whatsoever. It does have bear costumes, though.
I really got a k...
Hey, everyone! It’s Backwards Day!
I wrote a little piece of satire. Tell me what you think.
Obama thinks he is a good talker, but he is often undisciplined when he speaks. He needs to understand that as President, his words will be scrutinized and will have impact whether he intends...
Shaming Live Universe into paying what they owe you actually works!
The story so far: My website was an ad affiliate for the Peerflix Media Network, and my payments arrived regularly each month. Then Peerflix was bought by Live Universe, whereupon the checks immediately stopped coming. E-mails to my contact at Peerfl...
Piping hot Monday goodness
Happy Monday to one and all! Or, to those who are on the East Coast and only check this site during work hours, happy Tuesday! (The early part of the day slipped away from me while I was doing Important Things. Sorry.)
This week's edition of "Snid...
Friday movie roundup – Nov. 14
Wow, there is not much happening in Movieland this weekend. The Hollywood magic makers have given us only one new wide release, the James Bond escapade, "Quantum of Solace," and it's kind of generic. Entertaining, but nothing special. It's especially...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Gymkata’ (1985)
Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com returns after a one-week hiatus with "Gymkata," a film that, as promised, combines two sports: gymnastics and martial arts. The star is Kurt Thomas, who actually was a gymnast, though not a martial artist or an actor. It...
Monday: New ‘Snide Remarks’
I mentioned my grandfather's death a couple times on the blog last week, but today's "Snide Remarks," entitled "I'll Be Darned," is officially on the subject. I wrote a funny column when my other grandfather died, and I wouldn't want ol' John to feel...
Friday movie roundup – Nov. 7
First of all, thank you to everyone who offered condolences about my grandfather earlier in the week. I've had a nice few days in California with my family, celebrating Grandpa's life, enjoying one another's company, and seeing how many "too soon" jo...
In which I’m no prophet
Five years ago, a Utah senator suggested amending the U.S. Constitution so that instead of requiring presidents to have been born in America, foreign-born naturalized citizens could be eligible too. The idea never got much traction, but it did create...
Goodnight, old man
A bit of sad news at headquarters today: My grandfather died over the weekend. It wasn't a surprise -- his health had been failing for the last year or so, and everyone was preparing for the inevitable -- but of course it's still hard when it happens...
Friday movie roundup – Oct. 31
Happy Halloween! I hope you are able to spend this special holiday season with family and loved ones. If not, at least you can go to the movies and watch a story about two friends making pornography!
"Zack and Miri Make a Porno" is mostly funny, a...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘The Mangler’ (1995)
Stephen King has had bad luck with the movie adaptations of his horror stories. For every "Carrie" or "The Shining," there's something like "The Mangler," in which a town is terrorized by a demonic laundry machine. (To be fair to the filmmakers, King...
Links to recent EDS articles elsewhere
Here are some me-written things published elsewhere in the last couple weeks that may amuse, interest, or annoy you.
At Film.com:
Eric's Time Capsule: "Leaving Las Vegas"
Memo to Shatner: It's Time to Shut Up
Choosing Between "Saw V" and "High ...
New ‘Snide Remarks,’ and a new face!
Sure, there's a new "Snide Remarks" column today, called "Boys Nintendon't Cry" -- but more importantly, the site has had a face-lift! Note how my eyes gaze upon my own name with awe and admiration. Feel free to do likewise!
The main improvement i...
Friday movie roundup – Oct. 24
Three wide releases this weekend, three movies that you've seen before.
"Saw V: Still Sawin'" offers nothing that was not already featured in the previous four entries. It is one of Hollywood's Shameful Secrets®, too, which means I had to pay to s...
’30 Rock’ season premiere online NOW!
Rejoice, "30 Rock" fans! The season premiere won't air on the old-fashioned televisions until next week, but it's on the Internets NOW! You can watch it! Not next week, but NOW!
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘High School Musical’ (2006)
This week's edition of Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com does indeed feature a horror of a different kind: "High School Musical." As I hinted last week, "HSM" violates one of my rules in that it was a made-for-TV movie rather than a theatrical release. A...
Sad fact: This woman’s vote counts
The only thing worse than a stupid person is a stupid person who thinks she's smart. This woman, a crazy-eyed Virginia voter who is basing her vote on whoever "has the most faith in the Lord" (and that's just the tip of the iceberg), has a smug, self...
Welcome to Tally Hall!
Have you heard of Tally Hall? Well, you have now. I stumbled across this performance on a rerun of Craig Ferguson the other night, and I was instantly a fan. Visually, their gimmick is that each band member wears a specific tie, and they refer to eac...
Eric’s Time Capsule: ‘Soul Man’ (10/24/86)
I hope you have not already forgotten my two-week-old Monday column at Film.com, Eric's Time Capsule! Especially not now, when the third entry in the series concerns the 1986 comedy "Soul Man"! What could be more relevant in today's world than a man ...
‘Snide Remarks’ and politicians being silly
There's some political silliness in this week's "Snide Remarks."
And speaking of political silliness, below are Sarah Palin's two "Saturday Night Live" appearances from this weekend, once in the opening sketch and once in "Weekend Update." The sh...
McCain and Obama come together to make fun of McCain and Obama
I don't think I've mentioned it before, but political humor can be tricky. Comedy is entirely subjective anyway, and introducing politics into it just makes it more likely that one person will laugh while another doesn't find it funny (or, in some ra...
Friday movie roundup – Oct. 17
Friday means one thing and one thing only: new movies! Also, starting at sundown, the Jewish sabbath. So I guess two things. Well, one and a half, since the sabbath thing doesn't happen until tonight. Friday means mostly one thing, and that one thing...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Howling II: …Your Sister Is a Werewolf’ (1985)
I know I am occasionally prone to make overstatements in this area, but "Howling II: ...Your Sister Is a Werewolf" is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It's in the bottom 10 for sure. Film students should watch it to analyze how badly it's shot...
It comes with fries and an angioplasty
Courtesy of Serious Eats, behold: The Fatty Melt. It's a hamburger where the top bun has been replaced by a grilled cheese sandwich, and the bottom bun has been replaced by another grilled cheese sandwich. In other words, first make you two grilled...
Report: Down. Palin: Yay! The report says up!
Here is what the state of Alaska's legislative commission found regarding Gov. Sarah Palin's firing of Alaska Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan, whom she allegedly fired because of his reluctance to dismiss a state trooper that Palin wanted gon...
Crucial info hidden from voters!
This weekend, as I was skimming through something I'd TiVoed back in April, a commercial caught my eye. Oregon's three leading Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senator's seat were having a debate, and the local news was pimping it as the lead story...
TV reviews: ‘Kath & Kim,’ ‘Eleventh Hour,’ ‘The Mentalist,’ ‘Life on Mars̵...
"Kath & Kim" (Thursdays, NBC): I lasted seven minutes before declaring this adaptation of a popular Australian comedy a lost cause. Molly Shannon and Selma Blair play the dysfunctional but chummy mother and daughter of the title, a pair of vapid,...
‘Snide Remarks’: no. Other things: yes.
This may be of interest only to those of you who are my mother, but I was sick all weekend. Nothing serious, just a cold, but it was one of those things that sucks all the strength out of you. The only thing I could muster the energy for was lying on...
Friday movie roundup – Oct. 10
It's a very C+ kind of week for movies, with nothing terrible but nothing really great, either.
The best of the bunch is "City of Ember," based on a young-adult novel about an underground city. Lots of fun for the whole family, and Bill Murray pla...
On the mechanics of political humor
Right to the point: The reason the talk shows and "Saturday Night Live" haven't made fun of Obama much isn't that they're all liberals who can't stand to make jokes about their guy. It's that Obama hasn't given them much to grab on to.
Bill Clinto...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ (1997)
The popularity of "I Know What You Did Last Summer," featured in this week's edition of Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com, baffles me. This movie is not scary. It is barely even suspenseful. All four main characters behave stupidly for most of the film, ...
Why isn’t ‘W.’ screening in Portland?
Here's a puzzlement. Oliver Stone's "W.," a satirical biography of a fellow by the name of George W. Bush (haven't heard of him), opens next Friday and is being screened for critics in most markets on Tuesday night. Yet it's not screening in Portland...
UPDATE: Peerflix and LiveUniverse still fraudulent, unresponsive, unreliable
Nothing new, except that Peerflix and LiveUniverse continue to be poorly managed and fraudulent in their business dealings. You should not have anything to do with them or their products.
Piles of words produced by Eric at other sites
At Film.com, I wrote "The Differences Between Nicholas Sparks and Shakespeare," which was necessitated by Sparks actually comparing himself to the Bard. Seriously. He repeated it again in Entertainment Weekly last week. This guy needs to be punched.
Literal interpretation of a music video
Remember music videos? And remember how they often had nothing to do with the songs' lyrics? Here, courtesy of Funny Or Die, someone has taken A-ha's famous video for "Take on Me" and rewritten the lyrics to match the video.
New column: Eric’s Time Capsule!
I am pleased to announce a new weekly column at Film.com: "Eric's Time Capsule." The inaugural edition is here. I hope you enjoy it -- so much that I'm ending this sentence with an exclamation point!
The Time Capsule works like this: Each Monday, ...
‘Snide Remarks’ is massive and gray this week
This week's "Snide Remarks" is focused on pachyderms, and the babies that sometimes come out of them. It's entitled "The Elephant in the Womb." Please to be clicking and then reading.
More news later today. Stay tuned!
This week's "Snide Remark...
Religion and politics at the movies
There's nothing like religion 'n' politics to get people riled up, and nothing like the safe anonymity of the Internet to make them unafraid of expressing their anger.
Two of my movie reviews from this weekend, of Bill Maher's anti-religion screed...
Friday movie roundup – Oct. 3
If you were a movie critic this week, you'd be as busy as the proverbial one-legged man in the proverbial butt-kicking contest. And when I say "proverbial," I really mean it's mentioned in the book of Proverbs. Look it up!
Let's run through today'...
Funny things!
Wondering how Washington Mutual will re-brand itself now that it's failed as a bank? Our old pal Randy Tayler shows us.
And the lovely and talented David Cornelius has revealed the template for all late-night talk show monologues.
Another Palin video, but more leeway this time
Another excerpt from Katie Couric's interview with Sarah Palin, with Joe Biden thrown in for good measure.
This time, a lot of people aren't playing fair. The way it's been talked about on the Interwebs the last few days has been, "Palin can't...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Leprechaun’ (1993)
We're kicking off a month of horror films in Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com with "Leprechaun," a completely incompetent effort from 1993 that has spawned several direct-to-video sequels. I haven't seen the follow-ups, but I get the impression they are...
Peerflix and LiveUniverse owe me money, and I will publicly shame them until they give it to me
The companies: Peerflix Media Network and LiveUniverse. The offense: They have not paid me for the last three months of advertising on my site.
Peerflix Media Network contacted me last December about making EricDSnider.com an affiliate site. The t...
See? This is why people make fun of Christians
You're not helping, guys.
TV reviews: ‘Worst Week,’ ‘Gary Unmarried’
"Worst Week" (Mondays, CBS): I laughed a lot at the pilot episode of this fast-paced sitcom, and I was impressed by its enthusiastic embracing of farce and slapstick. It's a single-camera show (i.e., no studio audience) about a hapless man named Sam ...
Friday movie round up – Sept. 26
Busy week! Good heavens! So many movies!
"Miracle at St. Anna," Spike Lee's World War II epic about four black soldiers behind enemy lines in Italy, is the one that I think is the best of the new releases, though I note that I am in the distinct m...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘The Wiz’ (1978)
Ease on down to Film.com for this week's edition of Eric's Bad Movies, featuring "The Wiz," a terrible screen adaptation of what was apparently a fine Broadway musical. The movie exemplifies Hollywood logic: "This worked really well on stage! So when...
PETA would like to gross out Ben & Jerry’s customers
About a dozen alert readers sent me links today to this news item from PETA, in which the animal-rights terrorist group encourages Ben & Jerry's to replace the cow's milk in their ice cream with human milk.
PETA got the idea from the recent an...
Canadian-flavored ‘Snide Remarks’
A few random thoughts concerning my experience at the Toronto International Film Festival are cobbled together into this week's edition of "Snide Remarks," entitled "Oh, Yeah. Canada." "Oh, Yeah. Canada" is what I envision the original intent of the ...
Friday movie roundup – Sept. 19
Here is your weekly shipment of reviewage!
"Ghost Town" is a pretty funny comedy in which Ricky Gervais sees, and is annoyed by, dead people. (My review is at Cinematical.) Of course, if you don't think Ricky Gervais is funny, you probably won't c...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Mac and Me’ (1988)
As someone immediately guessed last week, today's edition of Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com features "Mac and Me," an extended McDonald's/Coke/Skittles commercial from 1988. My devoted editor has gone to the trouble of adding YouTube clips of the movi...
/Filmcast link: proof that I was on the podcast
Remember when I said I was going to be on the /Filmcast on Monday? Well, I totally was. The recording has been posted, and you can listen to it here. I come in around the 52-minute mark. I believe there may be a bit of saucy language in my segment (t...
Comics … IN MY PANTS!
You may be familiar with the juvenile (yet endlessly entertaining) game of adding "in my pants" or "in bed" or "in the bathtub" to the end of fortune-cookie fortunes, song titles, or famous sayings. Someone is doing it with comic strips now, replacin...
Ortega does what now?
If you have not already seen the Ortega commercial featuring Olympic gymnasts Shawn Johnson and the Hamm twins, you must watch it immediately. You must subsequently refrain from making vulgar comments. Personally, I find the unwitting double entendre...
TV review: “Fringe”
"Fringe" (Wednesdays, Fox): The new show from "Lost" and "Alias" creator J.J. Abrams is promising, though the almost-double-length pilot episode was filled with contrivances and clichés. Then again, it surprised me several times, too, so I guess you ...
Tonight: Eric chats with movie nerds on the Internets
Hey, if you wanted to hear me talk about "Burn After Reading" but don't have my phone number and haven't run into me in person, you can listen to the /Filmcast (that's pronounced "Slash Filmcast") at /Film (that's pronounced "Slash Film") tonight at ...
‘Snide Remarks’ appears on Mondays, including today
Today's "Snide Remarks," entitled "Your Candidate/My Candidate," is political only in a general sense. It's more of a silly language-manipulation thing (which some would say is all politics is anyway).
On another topic, did you ever have SO MUCH W...
TV reviews: “Do Not Disturb,” “Privileged,” “Hole in the Wall”
"Do Not Disturb" (Wednesdays, Fox): Traditional laugh-track sitcom set in an upscale New York City hotel, where the employees sleep with each other and make saucy remarks about the guests. Niecy Nash, hilarious as Raineesha Williams on "Reno 911!," f...
Stuff I wrote in Toronto
For the most part, my writing in Toronto was focused into "dispatches" containing mini-reviews of two or three films. Here's a handy list o' links to them, with the pertinent titles indicated.
For Film.com:
Dispatch #1 ("Burn After Reading," "N...
Friday movie roundup – Sept. 12
I'm back from Toronto and glad to be on fresh, freedom-enriched American soil again. I flew home on Sept. 11, which turned out to be not nearly as interesting as I had thought it might be.
The Coen Brothers have a new film in theaters today, "Burn...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Mortal Kombat: Annihilation’ (1997)
I'd put this one on the short list of Worst Movies Ever Made, Or at Least Among Those That I Have Personally Seen. "Mortal Kombat" is bad enough (for some reason I wrote a review of it a few years ago), but its sequel, "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation," ...
In which I barge into someone’s video
Peter Sciretta of SlashFilm was doing a video blog with James Rocchi of Cinematical yesterday, and I decided Peter probably wanted to have me in his video, too. I pop up just after the two-minute mark, serve no purpose, then disappear again.
Toronto tidbits
- Actual name of a woman on a Canadian TV commercial for laser eye surgery: Cherry Tabb.
- Actual status of everything on Canadian TV, whether intentional or not: hilarious.
- Right now there is a parade marching down the boulevard outside my h...
Friday movie roundup – Sept. 5
The only wide release this week is "Bangkok Dangerous," starring Nicolas Cage in a mullet, and for some reason Lionsgate didn't feel comfortable letting critics see it before it opened. Imagine that.
So "In the Dark" is light this week, though it ...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Anaconda’ (1997)
As you quickly guessed from last week's clues, this week's edition of Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com features "Anaconda." How come it didn't appear online until Thursday evening? I don't know! It's one of the mysteries!
Next week's movie is a seque...
I’m taking off! To the Great White North!
The Toronto International Film Festival begins tomorrow, and for the first time in its history, it will be attended by me! Eric D. Snider!
This is a huge festival, both in size and importance, and I'm excited to be going. I'm officially covering i...
The lighter side of teen pregnancy
(Kudos to Peter Sobczynski for the idea and David Cornelius for the Photoshop skillz.)
An epiphany at Starbucks
Sometimes I go to Starbucks and get a piece of coffee cake. Often they have two varieties, regular and Portland. I get the Portland kind, and every time I get it, I ask, "What makes it Portland-y?" And then I always answer my own question with a joke...
‘Boy A’ piracy protection
Several weeks ago, movie mogul Harvey Weinstein wrote an impassioned article at Portfolio.com pleading with entertainment reporters and film critics to give one of his company's films, "Boy A," more coverage. The movie had already won awards in Engla...
Welcome to September! Here is some stuff
This week's "Snide Remarks" column is the traditional summer blockbuster recap, entitled "The Heat Is Off." It includes more than one unfair swipe at "Sex and the City," for no good reason, really.
I also caught "Disaster Movie" and "College" this...
My superficial objections to Sarah Palin
My superficial objections to Sarah Palin:
1. Her children have the following names: Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper, and Trig Paxson. My objections to non-names are well documented. I have always taken a firm stance on this issue.
2. She speaks w...
New series added to TV schedule
I've updated my previous list of season-premiere dates to include brand-new series. There aren't as many new shows this year as there usually are (more fallout from the writers' strike), so it shouldn't be too hard to check out the ones that look pro...
Friday movie roundup – Aug. 29
Hoo boy! Do you smell that? That's the movie studios dumping their leftover crap into theaters because it's the last weekend of summer. Four wide releases this week, and THREE of them are Hollywood's Shameful Secrets©®™. I don't know if we've ever ha...
TV season premiere dates
I stole this from E! Online. (Thanks, Kristin!) Please note that this schedule is only for returning shows. The schedule for premiere dates of brand-new series is forthcoming. Also, note that times are for the Pacific and Eastern time zones. Everythi...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Cocktail’ (1988)
"Cocktail" isn't the worst film to be featured in Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com, but it is among the most boring and emotionally hollow. If anyone other than Tom Cruise (at the height of his popularity) had starred in it, it would have been a made-fo...
Celebrity birthdays for August 26
The following people are celebrating birthdays today:
Macauley Culkin (28)
Chris Burke, the Down syndrome guy from "Life Goes On" (43)
Mother Teresa (98, except for being dead)
Tom Ridge, first secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (...
The good news is, we got you a part…
My friend Luscious Malone and I like to say this when we're watching a movie or TV show in which an actor appears onscreen only briefly and only to do or say something dumb, demeaning, or embarrassing. For example:
"The good news is, we got you a ...
Our friends at PETA will love this week’s ‘Snide Remarks’
Can you believe it's been five years since I wrote a "Snide Remarks" column entirely about PETA? Me either! So here's a new one, "That's So PETArded," which seeks to make up for lost time. I confess I'm kind of proud of the Shamu part, and especially...
There are better places to put that…
Gazing out the window at my local coffeehouse, I saw a guy ride past on a bicycle with a DVD case from Video Verite (a local rental place specializing in non-mainstream DVDs) sticking out of the back of his pants, half in and half out. It was too big...
Friday movie roundup – Aug. 22
Movie reviews! Behold them in their splendor!
First, if you happen to live in the Portland area, you should check out "Kabluey," which opens at the Living Room Theaters today. This was the opening-night film at the Oxford Film Festival, which I at...
Connie Pashall, 56, of Portland, is ignorant
Portland's Willamette Week went door-to-door to find people who aren't voting for Obama and to ask them why not. The article is fuzzy on why the newspaper did this, exactly -- Willamette Week is often fuzzy on why it does a lot of things -- but one o...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Jaws: The Revenge’ (1987)
"Jaws: The Revenge" has been one of the most requested films for Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com, and I'm pleased to announce that its day in court has finally arrived. My on-the-ball editor over there even went to the trouble of locating the film's no...
The conversation that must have led to this picture
"All right, ladies, let's go to the grocery store!"
"OK! Let me just put on my too-tight low-rise jeans that leave the back side of my muffin top exposed!"
"And should I change out of my pajamas?"
"Nah, don't worry about it. I'm wear...
Snippets from the ‘Snide Remarks’ cutting-room floor
So here's the thing. After I mentioned in "Snide Remarks" last week that I'd been in California for a wedding, I intended to write another column this week about the reception, where my job was to play pretty music on the piano.
But try as I might...
Friday movie roundup – Aug. 15
It used to be that August was almost entirely a dumping ground for lame movies, but "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" bucked that trend in 2005 and things have been looking up ever since, especially for comedies.
"Tropic Thunder" opened on Wednesday, and i...
Commence weeping: “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” has been pushed back to 2009
Bad news, Harry Potter fans. The sixth movie, "Half-Blood Prince," originally scheduled for a Nov. 21 release, has been pushed back to next summer.
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Double Impact’ (1991)
This week's edition of Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com features a movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme ... and Jean-Claude Van Damme! It's two Van Dammes for the price of one in "Double Impact," about twins separated at birth who reunite to kill the gu...
Classic movies that don’t work for me
A reader named Dan sent me a nice e-mail that reads as follows:
Just wanted to say that I've thoroughly enjoyed your reviews over the years and to keep it up! But I have a quick question.... what movies that are universally regarded as classics do ...
Avuncular ‘Snide Remarks’; gross story from my brother
This week's "Snide Remarks," entitled "Uncle Morning Shift," is all about cute and adorable things! It's also a little tardy in getting posted, for which I deeply apologize. We were having what's known in the business as technical times.
Speaking ...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Grease 2’ (1982)
If "Grease" was "the one that I want," its sequel is "the one that I had to watch in two one-hour chunks because I couldn't stand to sit through it all at once." Yes, it's "Grease 2" week for Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com. Enjoy.
Someone correctly...
