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The Strength Of Seven Harry Connick Jrs.: A Review Of “Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes”

The Strength Of Seven Harry Connick Jrs.: A Review Of “Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes”

James Franco steals a super-smart baby chimp from his lab! He takes the chimp out to a state park for the first time and the chimp holds..

January 16, 2012 with 0 Comments
Hey, Let’s Talk About The Trailer for “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”

Hey, Let’s Talk About The Trailer for “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”

In which Jason and Kristina of Knuckle Salad discuss the trailer for the movie “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.” J: Wow,..

January 13, 2012 with 0 Comments
It Was Probably Her Tusks That Gave Me That Impression: A Review Of “Star Trek: Generations”

It Was Probably Her Tusks That Gave Me That Impression: A Review Of “Star Trek: Generations”

The Starship Enterprise has a new crew and it’s going on its maiden voyage! Captain Kirk and Scotty and Chekov are there visiting,..

January 9, 2012 with 0 Comments
Can We Talk About The Trailer For “Prometheus” For A Minute?

Can We Talk About The Trailer For “Prometheus” For A Minute?

In which Jason and comedy writer Ben Arnold discuss the trailer for the movie Prometheus. J: In space, no one can hear you scream. Which is..

January 6, 2012 with 1 Comment
Can We Talk About The Trailer For “New Year’s Eve” For A Minute?

Can We Talk About The Trailer For “New Year’s Eve” For A Minute?

In which Jason and Kristina of Knuckle Salad discuss the trailer for the movie “New Year’s Eve.” J: First of all,..

December 30, 2011 with 0 Comments
A Boulder Of Tinsel On A Hill Made Of Mistletoe: A Review Of “Santa Claus: The Movie”

A Boulder Of Tinsel On A Hill Made Of Mistletoe: A Review Of “Santa Claus: The Movie”

A woodcutter named Claus goes out in a blizzard and nearly gets himself killed trying to deliver a bag full of toys to the village..

December 24, 2011 with 0 Comments
Me Use Algorithms: A Review Of “Limitless”

Me Use Algorithms: A Review Of “Limitless”

In Limitless, Bradley Cooper plays a failed writer who takes magic pills and becomes a genius. For a movie that’s supposed to be..

December 20, 2011 with 1 Comment
You Didn’t Know If You Were Going To Jupiter: A Review Of “Another Earth”

You Didn’t Know If You Were Going To Jupiter: A Review Of “Another Earth”

On the same night a duplicate Earth is discovered in our solar system, a beautiful young woman is accepted into MIT’s astrophysics..

December 17, 2011 with 2 Comments
Scene Missing Episode 4:  Roadie, Young Adult, and Chronicle

Scene Missing Episode 4: Roadie, Young Adult, and Chronicle

Comedian Tony Jenkins, magician Rich Aviles and comedy writer Ben Arnold guest. Topics include upcoming films Roadie, Young Adult,..

November 25, 2011 with 0 Comments
Scene Missing Episode 3: The Rift, The Secret World of Arrietty, This Means War, The Grey, and The Hunger Games

Scene Missing Episode 3: The Rift, The Secret World of Arrietty, This Means War, The Grey, and The Hunger Games

Write Club Atlanta Consigliere Myke Johns and Viceroy Nick Tecosky guest. Topics include upcoming films The Rift, The Secret World of..

November 17, 2011 with 0 Comments
Scene Missing Episode 1: Puss in Boots 3D, Melancholia, The Mighty Macs, Charlotte Rampling: The Look, and Elevate

Scene Missing Episode 1: Puss in Boots 3D, Melancholia, The Mighty Macs, Charlotte Rampling: The Look, and Elevate

Atlanta stand-up comedian Tony Jenkins and professional magician Rich Aviles guest. Topics include upcoming films Puss in Boots 3D,..

October 30, 2011 with 1 Comment

And A Dairy Queen Between Us: A Review Of “Insidious”

In Insidious, a couple moves into a new house. But then one of their kids falls off a ladder and goes into a coma. A haunted coma! The..

September 16, 2011 with 1 Comment

Look At Mr. Tired Shovel With The Droopy Eyes: A Review Of Sucker Punch

You know that thing where you feel like it’s too late to watch a movie, because you have to get up in the morning and clean out horse..

September 14, 2011 with 0 Comments

The Kind Of Thing That Shows Up In R. Crumb’s Heaven: A Recap Of “What Dreams May Come”

Robin Williams is driving a little wooden boat around on a lake in Switzerland. He’s wearing a really thick sweater. Seems like that..

August 8, 2011 with 0 Comments

You Sank My Battleship! Suggestions For Turning Classic Toys Into Mega-movie Franchises

It’s a little early to name the best movie of the year (hint: it ain’t Green Lantern), but it’s not too early to name my favorite..

August 1, 2011 with 0 Comments

Hooking Up With Whoever Wins The Fight: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2″ Reviewed

This review contains spoilers and cursing, but not necessarily in that order. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 starts off with..

July 21, 2011 with 0 Comments

Nobody Wants To Kiss A Lion On The Mouth: A Review Of “Beastly”

So Alex Pettyfer is a rich kid giving a speech at his rich kid high school. You know it’s a rich kid high school because their class..

July 12, 2011 with 0 Comments

Every Color Of The Pantone Rainbow: “One Hour Photo” Reviewed

In One Hour Photo, Robin Williams plays a lonely weirdo working in a Wal-Mart style photo department who starts stalking the living hell..

July 6, 2011 with 0 Comments

I Surrender, Burn Them All: A Review Of “Battle: Los Angeles”

I was reading the user reviews on iTunes for Battle: Los Angeles, because I was wondering why it had such a low score. People kept writing..

July 2, 2011 with 0 Comments

The Kind Of Hot That Vanishes With Your Girlfriend: A Criticism Of “Fanboys”

One of the conceits of Fanboys is that Jay Baruchel’s nerd and Kristen Bell’s nerd are madly in love, but their nerdiness gets..

June 28, 2011 with 0 Comments

Making Out In Front Of Manifest Destiny: A Recap Of “The Adjustment Bureau”

In The Adjustment Bureau, Matt Damon is a young Congressman running for Senate. You know, I bet a lot of people don’t know the..

June 24, 2011 with 0 Comments

Yeah, But Look At This Origami Bird I Made: A Review Of “Green Lantern”

Test pilot Hal Jordan leaves a sexy girl in his bed to go fly jets. Whoosh! Sorry nice lady I’m fly airplanes, now! He wraps a..

June 20, 2011 with 0 Comments

Your Old Friend, The Skull: A Review Of “True Grit”

A fourteen year old girl named Mattie hires U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn to track down Chaney, the man who killed her father. Rooster is..

June 17, 2011 with 0 Comments

He Didn’t Even Bother To Put On His Space Boxers: Thoughts On “Super 8″

Hey it’s 1979! A kid in a Smashing Pumpkins video is rolling down a hill in a tire! I once dated a girl who was obsessed with the..

June 13, 2011 with 0 Comments

A Good Candidate For Understanding Love: A Review Of “Kung Fu Panda 2″

I was in a horrible mood watching Kung Fu Panda 2. This guy behind me wouldn’t stop kicking my seat. So I elbowed the seat whenever..

June 6, 2011 with 0 Comments

Then The Tiger Lost An Eye: “X-Men: First Class” Reviewed

James McAvoy is Professor X and and Michael Fassbender is Magneto. They are best friends! Mutant best friends. I remember my first best..

June 3, 2011 with 0 Comments

You’ve Never Been To The Dog Circus? A Review Of “Step Up 3D”

A curly haired kid named Moose is starting college at NYU. But there is a dance battle right there on campus! Moose can totally dance so..

June 1, 2011 with 0 Comments

You Don’t Even Want To See The King Of Diamonds: A Review Of “Bridesmaids”

Okay, so Bridesmaids. There was a baby in the theater. But he was a quiet baby. He only made baby noises once during the movie. Thank you,..

May 31, 2011 with 1 Comment

The Line Is Long At Trader Joe’s: “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” Reviewed

The other night I had a dream that Barack Obama and I were hanging out in my hometown library. It was really casual, because Obama had..

May 30, 2011 with 0 Comments

There Better Not Be Any Thistles: A Review Of “The Troll Hunter”

A bunch of Norwegian college students hear about an unauthorized bear killing so they double-time it to the scene of the bear crime. Is one..

May 26, 2011 with 0 Comments

Jam Your Hands in a Janitor’s Bucket: A Review of “I Am Number Four”

Alright- there’s nine alien teenagers on our planet and some other evil aliens want to kill them. IN NUMERIC ORDER. Gotta admire that..

May 25, 2011 with 0 Comments

That’s some pig! A review of the movie “The Descent”

So, a bunch of women are going caving in the Appalachian mountains. They treat it like a baby shower or a bachelorette party by getting..

May 21, 2011 with 1 Comment

Thor

So, Anthony Hopkins is Odin! He got stabbed in the eye by a Frost Giant. He wears a complicated eyepatch with little extra parts and stuff...

May 9, 2011 with 0 Comments

The Fighter

Mark Wahlberg is a fighter! So is his brother Christian Bale. But Mark Wahlberg is a more muscular, healthier fighter. Like a 16-bit..

March 28, 2011 with 1 Comment

Hereafter

Matt Damon is a psychic who gave up psychic-ing to be a blue collar worker because he got sick of talking to dead people all the time...

March 23, 2011 with 0 Comments
Unstoppable

Unstoppable

Denzel Washington and Chris Pine are two train conductors (engineers?) and they are like, “Trains! Get that coal lined up! Put the..

March 17, 2011 with 0 Comments
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Shia LaBeouf is a Wall Street guy. But he’s a good Wall Street guy because he wants to help a scientist with his green solar magic..

March 9, 2011 with 0 Comments
Black Swan

Black Swan

Okay, Natalie Portman wants to be the Swan Queen in a big ballet production. You can tell this is a big deal ballet company, because they..

March 3, 2011 with 1 Comment
The King’s Speech

The King’s Speech

Colin Firth has a stuttering problem! Helena Bonham Carter has wavy hair and a doll’s face. And she’s married to the prince!..

February 16, 2011 with 0 Comments
The Other Guys

The Other Guys

Will Ferrell is an uptight cop and Mark Wahlberg is his partner. They find a British guy and he’s bad or something. Or shady. But..

January 17, 2011 with 1 Comment
Easy A

Easy A

In the movie Easy A, Emma Stone’s character lies about having sex with high school boys in exchange for gift cards. Phonetically, I..

January 14, 2011 with 0 Comments

The Town

Spoilers. Okay, here is my review of The Town. Ben Affleck’s impossibly handsome face robs some banks and Jon Hamm’s impossibly..

January 10, 2011 with 2 Comments

How to Train Your Dragon

How to Train Your Dragon is about a bunch of vikings who kill dragons. And by vikings, I mean they have pointy hats and viking ships but..

December 31, 2010 with 2 Comments

Cyrus

I thought you all should know that I’m listening to “My Boo” by the Ghost Town DJ’s while I write this review..

December 27, 2010 with 2 Comments

Scrooged

If there was a kid in the year 1988 more excited than me about Scrooged, I’d like to meet the little son of a bitch. To shake his..

December 21, 2010 with 0 Comments

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Look, it’s aliens. This whole thing is aliens. I know you’re expecting something else, but here we are. Like..

December 15, 2010 with 1 Comment

Minority Report

It’s the year 2054, iPhones are probably great, and a businessman is about to kill his wife for cheating on him. His wife is pretty..

December 6, 2010 with 1 Comment

Field of Dreams

Kevin Costner is a farmer who likes baseball and used to be a hippie. He even says so in the beginning of the movie. “I used to be a..

December 3, 2010 with 0 Comments

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

This review contains mild spoilers. Well, now that Dumbledore is dead, Voldemort is having evil wizard parties. Doesn’t seem like..

November 26, 2010 with 1 Comment

Winter’s Bone

Dogs everywhere heard the title of this movie and started wagging their tails. Sorry, cinema enjoying dogs. There are no dog bones in..

November 10, 2010 with 1 Comment
Reviews and essays about sci-fi and pop culture, written by an Atlanta comedian living with a French Bulldog. (Dog does not write reviews. Dog edits reviews.)
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