IN THEATERSFool's Gold
Admirers of underdressed movie stars will enjoy Matthew McConaughey, who sports only swimwear for many of his scenes in Fool's Gold. Everyone else may feel a little cheated.
ON DVD/BLU-RAYShowgirlsShowgirls eschews cheap murder mystery in favor of cheap soap opera, and the results are about what you'd expect.
ON DVD/BLU-RAY300With its fetishistic depiction of the nearly naked male body as nothing more or less than a merciless instrument of warfare, it fills a much-needed gap between gay porn and recruitment film.
IN THEATERSThe Sign of the CrossDespite insistently dull depictions of the monotonous lives of the true believers, what DeMille's really into is the hedonistic habits of the Roman upper classes. The result is a film whose generous helpings of sex and violence are overwhelmed by its general air of condescension and phony piety.
Screening Log
- Computer Chess (Andrew Bujalski, 2013) 73/100
- Mud (Jeff Nichols, 2012) 56/100
- her (Spike Jonze, 2013) 46/100
- Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2013) 85/100
- The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013) 92/100
- American Hustle (David O. Russell, 2013) 44/100
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Francis Lawrence, 2013) 19/100
- Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (Stephen Chow, 2013) 71/100
- Why Don't You Play in Hell? (Sion Sono, 2013) 62/100
- Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, 2013) 88/100
- Blue is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013) 70/100
- The Counselor (Ridley Scott, 2013) 77/100
- Bad Grandpa (Jeff Tremaine, 2013) 48/100
- All Is Lost (J.C. Chandor, 2013) 71/100
- Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass, 2013) 57/100
- John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness * (John Carpenter, 1987) 85/100
- Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman, 2009) 91/100
- Riddick (David Twohy, 2013) 53/100
- After Tiller (Martha Shane and Lana Wilson, 2013) 54/100
- Short Term 12 (Destin Cretton, 2013) 61/100
- Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen, 2013) 63/100
- You're Next (Adam Wingard, 2011) 64/100
- Q * (Larry Cohen, 1982) 65/100
- The World's End (Edgar Wright, 2013) 68/100
- The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-Wai, 2013) 67/100
- The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012) 66/100
- Passion (Brian De Palma, 2012) 53/100
- Swamp Thing (Wes Craven, 2009) 60/100
- Sound City (Dave Grohl, 2013) 55/100
- Exotica * (Atom Egoyan, 1994) 98/100
All D Grades
- This Is 40 (Judd Apatow, 2012) D
- Hemingway & Gellhorn (Philip Kaufman, 2012) D
- I Spit on Your Grave (Steven R. Monroe, 2010) D
- Obsessed (Steve Shill, 2009) D
- Passengers (Rodrigo Garcia, 2008) D
- Postal (Uwe Boll, 2008) D
- Zombie Strippers! (Jay Lee, 2008) D
- Untraceable (Gregory Hoblit, 2008) D
- Fool's Gold (Andy Tennant, 2008) D
- Vantage Point (Pete Travis, 2008) D
- What Happens in Vegas (Tom Vaughan, 2008) D
- Mummy, The: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (Rob Cohen, 2008) D
- Eye, The (David Moreau and Xavier Palud, 2008) D
- House of the Sleeping Beauties (Vadim Glowna, 2006) D
- Southland Tales (Richard Kelly, 2006) D
- 300 (Zack Snyder, 2006) D
- Shanghai Knights (David Dobkin, 2003) D
- Naqoyqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 2002) D
- May (Lucky McKee, 2002) D
- Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven, 1995) D
- Breeders (Tim Kincaid, 1986) D
- Malibu High (Irvin Berwick, 1979) D
- Emanuelle in America (Joe D'Amato, 1976) D
- The Sign of the Cross (Cecil B. DeMille, 1932) D
