JABOOTU the bad movie dimension

Here’s the announced slate of Disney theatrical releases for 2008. Other titles may be added, as it’s a bit sparse. However, the Writer’s strike isn’t going to help in that regard, not to mention the entirely probably Actor and Director strikes coming in the summer of 2008. If those occur and are [...]

I just saw a local new story, about a maybe ten-year old girl who won a toy shop contest, the prize being some Hannah Montana tickets. She accomplished this via an essay in which she talked about how her dad had died in Iraq. This was a lie, and a local court has [...]

One of the weirdly overlooked DVD box megasets recently was the epic Ford at Fox collection, which brought together 24 early films of John Ford, certainly one of America’s greatest filmmakers.  Many of these films had never been on DVD before, or even on video. 
While you have to be a real film buff to get [...]

Here There Be Spoilers:  However, the movie’s so lame that if I further dissuade you from watching it, I’ll have done my job.
Mr. Brooks is a thoroughly mediocre two-hour borefest hobbled by its own pretentions.  (And the fact that people will compare it to the TV show Dexter, which is reportedly much better.)   This is [...]

In case my old friend Jeff Withem stops by, I’d like to thank him and his family for raiding my Amazon wish list and getting me the Billy Jack Ultimate Collection and, even better, the recent Latitude Zero 2-disc DVD release.  (The joke will especially be on Jeff when he comes in for B-Fest next month and [...]