Weekend Weigh-in: Do You Still Watch Special Features?

Get on the record before physical media is gone forever.

Netflix This Movie! Vol. 53

It's Black Friday! Here are some movies to stream on the new iPad that you waited in line for since last night.

It Came From the '80s: Invaders from Mars

by Patrick Bromley

In which a '50s sci-fi classic gets an '80s overhaul courtesy of Tobe Hooper.

Heath and Mike Return to Middle Earth

Mike and Heath step out of The Shire and embark on their own quest to discover what exactly makes them love Lord of the Rings and the world of Tolkien so much.

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: 3-D!

I wanted to hate it; honest I did.

10 Directors Who Need to Work More

Here are 10 filmmakers whose work is great, but who (for one reason or another) don't release films as often as many of their contemporaries. Let's hope this little has the power to change all that.

Riske Business: The 10 Best Chanukah Movies of All time

Why hasn’t Hollywood (and independent cinema for that matter) ever made much in the way of Chanukah movies? The only seasonal movies I and my fellow Jewish moviegoers have are grief porn like An American Tail or Adam Sandler’s Eight Crazy Nights, which is too mean-spirited to also be silly. So to help stoke the fire, I am proposing 10 Chanukah movies for Hollywood to produce. They will all be better than An American Tail or Eight Crazy Nights and thus are the 10 best Chanukah movies ever made.

F This Movie! - Road House

Patrick and Adam Riske will be nice until it's time to not to be nice.

Weekend Weigh-in: What's Your Favorite Time Travel Movie?

Happy Day of the Doctor, everyone!

Watchin' Trailerz with Doug (Nov. 22)

In the vein of the blooper-filled trailer for Star Wars I shared with you a couple weeks ago, here's the derpiest version of The Avengers the web has to offer. Special thanks to OneMinuteGalactica (from Slacktory) for putting this together!

Netflix This Movie! Vol. 52

Masked heroes, femme fatales, murderous kidnappers and quirky Greta Gerwig. What a weekend we have planned for you.

Director Essentials: Rob Reiner

by Patrick Bromley

The essential work of Meathead!

F This Movie! Episode 15

Patrick gets a visitor from the past: 1996 Patrick.

Heath Holland On...Johnny Depp

Deep breath…here we go.

F This Movie! - The Living Daylights

Patrick and Mike start podcasting their way through the Bond series with Timothy Dalton's first outing as the world's most respectful secret agent.

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures - Mutoscopes!

WARNING: This week’s column gets a tad esoteric. Buckle up, F-Heads.

Review: Dallas Buyers Club

by Patrick Bromley

All right all right all right.

Riske Business: Box Office Bombs I Thought Would Be Huge

As mentioned way back on the Young Guns podcast, Premiere Magazine once predicted that the Julia Roberts sob-fest Dying Young would be the biggest movie of the summer of 1991. That did not turn out to be the case. Eighteen movies grossed more than Dying Young that summer. I’d make fun of the writers at Premiere, but that wouldn’t be fair. I’ve had many occasions where I thought a movie would be huge and it did not catch on. Here are some of my Dying Youngs.

What are the Best and Worst Book-to-Movie Adaptations?

Reading is fundamental. Watching movies is fundamentaler.

Watchin' Trailerz with Doug (Nov. 15)

In the December 2013 issue of Esquire magazine, George Clooney slams Russell Crowe. Well, good news all you 30 Odd Foot of Grunts fans -- Crowe is featured in TWO (count 'em!) trailerz this week (neither of them good)! In your face, you "Frank Sinatra wannabe!"

Netflix This Movie! Vol. 51

Documentaries, new classics, old classics and a sleeper. What more could you ask for?

Bond Miscellany

Bromley. Patrick Bromley.

F This Movie! Episode 14

Merry Smaugmas!

Heath Holland On...Three Flicks: Elvis Part 2 -- From Graceland!

It’s a hunk-a, hunk-a burning something, but it doesn’t smell like love.

F This Movie! - Director Messes

Patrick and JB talk flaws, missteps and messes from some of their favorite filmmakers.

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: A Return to the Land of Packaging!

Two years ago I wrote about the bane of home video collectors: irregular disc packaging that does not line up on the shelf with standard keep cases. Well kids, I now have several possible solutions…

Riske Business: Blockbusters, Oscar Bait and Expectations

I’m at a bit of a divide when it comes to movies these days. I have come to the realization that I am no longer the target audience for the big blockbuster movies anymore. Ender’s Game, Thor: The Dark World and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire are made for 20-somethings, teens or younger. And the “Oscar bait” movies of the day often disappoint me as well. I’m not going to give up watching blockbusters or the movies jockeying for awards. That would be a dumb solution. I might dismiss something and end up missing the next pleasant surprise. So what should I do? I think it all has to do with expectations. And I need to adjust mine.

Review: Thor: The Dark World

Hammer time.

Weekend Weigh-in: What's the Worst Movie from Your Favorite Director?

Sometimes even the filmmakers we love can swing and miss.

Watchin' Trailerz with Doug (Nov. 9)

Watch the very first 1976 teaser for Star Wars, here. Better yet, watch a version of the preview filled with bloopers: Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Derp. If you're STILL not satisfied, watch the entire recently rediscovered blooper reel, here. It's pretty great.

Netflix This Movie! Vol. 50

To celebrate our 50th column, enjoy this super-sized selection of streaming suggestions!

I'll Watch Anything: Patrick Watches Chairman of the Board

Remember when they tried to make Carrot Top a movie star? Because I don't.

Heath Holland On...Batman: Mask of the Phantasm 20 Years Later

Twenty years later, this film still understands Batman like no other movie has.

F This Movie! - F Everything!

Patrick and Doug cover every topic you can possibly imagine. Plus lots of Star Wars talk.

Review: Zero Charisma

These days, there are more movies than ever being made for nerds. There are way fewer movies being made about nerds -- especially ones as honest as this.

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: Seconds

“Don’t it always seem to go… that you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone…”

--Joni Mitchell
“Big Yellow Taxi”

Riske Business: Songs From Movies That I Love but Probably Shouldn't (Vol. 2)

Scary Movie Month is over, so is November Scary Music Month? As in, songs so good they’re scary? What do you all think of these?

Heavy Action: Escape Plan

by Patrick Bromley

Heavy Action is back!

Review: Ender's Game (Adam Riske's Take)

by Adam Riske

I love being wrong. Having no history with the book Ender’s Game, I went into the movie with a blank slate and low expectations brought on by the movie’s garbage trailer. It looked like another one of those nonsense “chosen one” movies for kids. But I am here to say Ender’s Game is another Jack Reacher, a movie far better than the ads would leave you to believe. I liked Ender’s Game. At times I liked it a lot.

Weekend Weigh-in: What Was the Best/Worst Movie You Watched During Scary Movie Month?

There's just one more thing to do before we can close the book on #ScaryMovieMonth 2013.

Watchin' Trailerz with Doug (Nov. 1)

Do you know how weird it is to write about non-horror previews on Halloween? DO YOU? "Pretty weird," -your mouth hole. Alas, #ScaryMovieMonth 2013 has shuffled off this mortal coil. While it was "tons of fun" (Patrick's high school nickname), it's over Johnny. IT'S OVER. Listen, we're all adults with adult-sized brains so we're fully capable of moving on, right? I mean, November has stuff to offer too, like Daylight Saving Time and Albanian Independence Day and Cyber Monday ... OK, now I'm bummed. Here's some fucking trailerz. ENJOY.

Netflix This Movie! Vol. 49

Everything's back to normal, except for it all being different.