Your 2013 Scary Movie Month Primer

Tomorrow begins #ScaryMovieMonth. Get ready. Unless you're already ready. In that case, get readier.

Review: Don Jon

by Patrick Bromley

Don Jon, the new romantic comedy that marks the directorial debut of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, is a mess. But it's the kind of well-intentioned mess that only a first time writer-director makes.

Review: Metallica: Through the Never (Adam Riske's Take)

by Adam Riske

To use a horribly trite cliché, Metallica: Through the Never did not rock me. That was its only job. For that and many other reasons, it is a bad movie.

Introducing the #ScaryMovieMonth Movie Club! (1,000 Post!)

We're now less than 72 hours away from #ScaryMovieMonth, and we've got something new going on this year.

Watchin' Trailerz with Doug (Sept. 27)

T-minus three days till #ScaryMovieMonth! Until then, some ultimately unsatisfying non-horror previews!

Netflix This Movie! Vol. 44

Last week of non-scary movies before the scary month that is #ScaryMovieMonth. Watch them now while you still can, chickens.

Heath Holland On...The Ewoks Double Feature

They’re cute! They’re cuddly! They eat the flesh of the living!

F This Movie! Episode 8

It's a Freaky Thursday for Patrick Doug and Doug Patrick.

Riske Business: Hocus Pocus 20 Years Later

I missed Hocus Pocus in its original July 1993 release. Back then I thought it was a “girl movie.” Boy, was I a stupid 11-year old!

F This Movie! - Tom Holland Interview

Get ready for Scary Movie Month as Patrick welcomes writer/director TOM HOLLAND -- the man responsible for Child's Play, Fright Night and much, much more -- to the show for a conversation about all of his classic movies. It's awesome.

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: Tough Guys Don't Dance

Now that it has been pointed out to me that the original 1972 Poseidon Adventure is actually pretty great, my favorite “bad” movie will forever be novelist/he-man Norman Mailer's 1987 crime dramedy Tough Guys Don't Dance. This movie is incredibly entertaining to watch, and is as appropriate a movie as there will ever be for a column titled “Drunk on Foolish Pleasures” since most, if not all, of this film’s characters are drunk for the entire length of the movie. The screenwriter, director, and most of the actors may have been drunk on the set during filming, too. It certainly seems that way.

Just ask Norman Mailer. In his considered worldview, drinking makes you a man… so does fighting… and so does not being gay. Tough Guys Don’t Dance is the work of a man who has had one too many testosterone injections directly to his groin. This movie’s screenwriter seems to be every boy who ever bullied me in high school; its director seems to be a sociopath. Both men are Norman Mailer.

Review: Thanks for Sharing

by Patrick Bromley

Here's what happens when sex addiction meets the sitcom.

Review: Prisoners

by Patrick Bromley

Here's a movie I was really dreading that turned out to be one I really liked.

Weekend Weigh-in: Is There a Movie You Wish You Had Never Seen?

Some things you can never un-see.

Watchin' Trailerz with Doug (Sept. 20)

#ScaryMovieMonth is less than two weeks away, and Pixar just released a promo for their first-ever TV special, Toy Story of Terror. Sure, it's not a movie, but, you know ... HALLOWEEN!

Netflix This Movie! Vol. 43

Movies! Get your movies here! So many picks. Streaming streaming streamy stream movies.

Heath Holland On...Roadie

What do you get when you put Meat Loaf, Blondie, and Alice Cooper in a blender? You get the movie Roadie.

F This Movie! Episode 7

Are you ready for some football (movies)??

Take Two: Gigli

by Patrick Bromley

People can't talk about Gigli without being assholes. It has become a cheap, easy punchline, used mostly by people who have never seen the movie. Not that people really need to see it.

I'll Watch Anything: Adam Riske Watches Shadowboxer

This column contains spoilers for Shadowboxer. Don’t worry about it.

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: Coming Attractions, Part Deux!

Last week I opined on the horror movie new releases gracing us this fall. This week, I continue to opine until my wife calls in a specialist.

Review: Dracula, Prince of Darkness

by Patrick Bromley

It's Hammer time.

F This Movie! - Insidious Chapter 2

Scary Movie Month comes just a little bit early as Patrick and Adam Riske return from The Further to talk about Insidious Chapter 2.

Weekend Weigh-in: What Villains are Justified in Their Actions?

Let's try and hear their side of the story, you guys.

Watchin' Trailerz with Doug (Sept. 13)

Last week, I shit the bed by not including the new RoboCop trailer. Apologies, your highnesses! Here it is. Now, please, commence making fun of it in the comments.

Netflix This Movie! Vol. 42

Four totally different movies from four different decades. Eclecticism, thy name is F This Movie!

Review: Rewind This!

by Patrick Bromley

VHS is dead. Long live VHS.

Heath Holland On...When Video Games Go to the Movies

Ready Player One? Press Start!

F This Movie! Episode 6

Get ready for Fall with Patrick and Doug!

Revisiting Star Trek Into Darkness: Alex vs. Patrick

Alex just saw Star Trek Into Darkness for the first time and loved it. Patrick still doesn't like it. Now they get to argue about it.

Riske Business: Interview with Morgan White (Writer/Director of The Rep)

After seeing (and loving) The Rep, Adam Riske tracked down writer/director Morgan White for an interview about how the movie came to be, the process of making it and the future of repertory theaters. Enjoy!

Review: The Rep

by Adam Riske

Back in May, I had the opportunity to see a documentary called The Rep at one of Chicago’s rep houses, the Patio Theatre. It still is my most interesting movie going experience of the year. First, The Rep is an amazing documentary which has catapulted up my personal list of favorites in the genre. The movie speaks to me very personally because repertory movie theatres are a topic I am passionate about.

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: Coming Attractions!

Boo! Scary Movie Month is almost here. As a horror “collector,” I look at the list of what is being released in the next six weeks, and I salivate. My excitement longs to roam free, like comedian Patton Oswalt’s clinical depression when he stops taking his meds. Come with me now, as I daintily pick through the pumpkin patch of this fall’s home video releases…

Review: Bounty Killer

The poster for Bounty Killer makes it look like every DTV action movie clogging up your local Redbox. It's so much better than that.

Mark Ahn Knows Kung-fu: The Grandmaster

Part of what's difficult about decision making is that it forces you to take a stand. Taking a stand means raising your profile to the point where people can hold you accountable. What if you did what you thought was right, but you ended up being wrong? Do you stick with your decision, or change course? This is the particular melancholy that comes with making decisions, and it is a primary concern of director Wong Kar-wai in The Grandmaster.

F This Movie! - Riddick

Patrick and Mark Ahn are Riddick-ulous.

Weekend Weigh-in: What Was the Best Summer for Movies?

Let's all remember where we were when rush hour hit the water.

Watchin' Trailerz with Doug (Sep. 6)

This is one of the best trailers I've seen in a while. Careful: it's rated "R." #DadJokes

Netflix This Movie! Vol. 41

Better get all the non-scary recommendations you can from us now, since it's all going to change in just a few more weeks. #ScaryMovieMonth

Riske Business: Oscar Flashback (2004)

This week’s Riske Business features Patrick and me using the 2004 Best Picture race as a launching point for a discussion about those films, the Academy Awards and a whole bunch of tangential goodness. Hope you enjoy!

F This Movie! Episode 5

Patrick and Doug share the movies they watch when they're home sick.

Heath Holland On...My Yearly Cycle

It’s not a motorbike and I’m not menstruating. Well, I am, but that’s not what I mean.

F This Movie! - F This Summer (2013)

Patrick, Doug and JB try to be positive about Summer 2013. They try.

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: Good Ol' Freda

Welcome to my new column. Although I happen to be drunk right now, I will not be talking about liquor or drinking here. Rather, I will be talking about movies (and aspects of movies) that make me indescribably happy, perhaps unreasonably so. The “foolish pleasures” I describe over the next 52 weeks are intensely personal, and often indefensible, but I hope they spark in you, Gentle Reader, similar feelings about what you love, what makes you happy, and what you hold dear. I promise you an interesting year.