PITCH PERFECT *** (out of ****) Here’s what we know: Pitch Perfect, impossible not to call Glee: The Movie, is about the four a capella teams at Barden University, a school that treats a capella groups more seriously than any school should (maybe the fictional front office of the school had also seen Glee, [...]
SUCK MY DISC QUICK HIT HOPE SPRINGS **1/2 (out of ****) Hope Springs is one of those movies where you can watch the preview, close your eyes, imagine what happens in the movie, and be 100% right. From the twists of the story to the decisions made by the director, it offers almost nothing [...]
QUICK HIT THE DARK KNIGHT RISES Is this going to go down as the most polarizing movie of the year? It might be, with Cloud Atlas barely registering on the radar, and without a Michael Moore movie. The feeling I got when I heard anybody talking about this movie was that their love or hate [...]
DOUBLEFISTED EDITION!!! In which two people review the new-to-DVD The Hunger Games, one who hasn’t read the books, and one who has. HAS NOT READ THE BOOKS: ** (out of ****) It’s becoming more and more clear just how big the hole is in the world of pop culture that was left by the ending [...]
LOL * (out of ****) I’m not going to say that my job here in the Suck My Disc wing of the PopFilter mansion, located in the old parking lot of the PopFilter Podcast Studio in lovely Burbank, California, is difficult; it’s basically the easiest job anyone could ever have. But that [...]
GOD BLESS AMERICA ** (out of ****) If you’ve heard of Bobcat Goldthwait, then you probably don’t remember that much more than he was “that weird guy with that weird voice”. The voice has long since been dropped, but the act still remains mostly the same, with the rage now coming through in his [...]
PROJECT X * 1/2 (out of ****) Project X is the story of a high school kid named Thomas, and how his birthday party became the biggest house party in the history of Northern Pasadena. In the beginning of the film, it is revealed that Thomas’ dad thinks he is a loser. In the [...]
Sherlock Holmes: A game of Shadows *** out of **** This weeks DVD releases comes with Sherlock Holmes: A game of Shadows (2011). This is the sequel to Sherlock Holmes (2009) staring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, and Mark Strong. This time around Robert Downey Jr., as Sherlock Holmes, and Jude Law, [...]
The DVDs, Blu Rays, and TVDs of May 22, 2012 CERTIFIED COPY ***1/2 (out of ****) Apparently director Abbas Kiarostami does not watch movies. Any movies. Ever. I watch a shitload of movies, and movies have nothing to do with my job. This guy directs movies, and doesn’t watch any movies at any time for [...]
Gremlins 2: The New Batch ** out of **** A long time ago, back when cell phones were the size of small children and the Internet was just a baby, there was a movie. In fact, there were a lot of movies, but we don’t remember many of them do we? Gremlins [...]
HAYWIRE *** (out of ****) In this day and age, what with the economy and the internet filled with 99 percenters and streaming videotape, it’s getting harder and harder for entertainers to earn Lifetime Passes. When you give someone a Lifetime Pass, that doesn’t mean that you will like everything they do for the [...]
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL *** (out of ****) I literally looked up the word “sequel” on dictionary.com before I started writing this article. I would never do something as cliché as begin a piece of writing with a definition, but I’m not sure we’re using the term “sequel” correctly. Back to the Future, Part [...]
THE DVDS AND BLU RAYS FOR 4/10/2012 THE TRUTH ABOUT CATS & DOGS ** (out of ****) I have fond memories of my movie watching experiences with my family as a child growing up. You know, like the first time your parents let you watch a rated R movie? For me I was nine walking [...]
WAR HORSE **1/2 (out of ****) Arguing about Steven Spielberg, either his recent movies or his entire oeuvre, has become something of a national past time for pop culture nerds. His influence on how the industry works today is inarguable, but the quality of his films is, and probably always will [...]
The DVD, Blu Ray, and TVD releases for February 21, 2012 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close ** (out of ****) Having the title of worst reviewed best picture nominee of the past 40 years, I couldn’t help but watch Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011). It’s such an intriguing premise, not the film’s premise, rather [...]
THE MUPPETS *** (out of ****) There are thousands of reasons that I’m not yet a real critic. One of them is that critics can’t afford the luxury of being fans of anything. If they love David Fincher, they have to walk into the newest Fincher movie with the same excitement that they do [...]
The DVD, Blu Ray, and TVD releases for February 21, 2012 The Adventures of Tinin ***1/2 (out of ****) When I first saw a trailer for The Adventures of Tintin I couldn’t help but think to myself “Oh no, another creepy looking Polar Express movie.” Then I never thought about it again, until one day [...]
JACK AND JILL The greatest movie of all time finally comes to DVD. Check out Daniel Tompkins’ review of the theatrical version, and pretend he wrote it for the DVD version. http://yourpopfilter.com/2011/11/bottom-feeders-jack-jill/ THE SKIN I LIVE IN *** (out of ****) The second greatest movie of all time finally comes to DVD. Coincidentally, the podcast [...]
The DVD, Blu Ray, and TVD releases for February 21, 2012 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN ** (out of ****) As a film school student I am constantly watching and assigned to watch “deep” films. Also, black and white films. Films before the advent of sound. Films that don’t come in my language and force me to [...]
The DVD, Blu Ray, and TVD releases for February 21, 2012 PUSS IN BOOTS *** (out of ****) Television series aren’t going to be perfect every episode. With TV, we watch a bad eppy, we shrug it off, and we wait for next week. Movie franchises aren’t so fortunate. The first Shrek was decent enough, [...]
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