Oh early spring film releases. The Oscar films have gone wide, the crappy horror/comedy/romantic movies are getting ready to do well for an opening weekend before exiting quickly and the critical community is organizing their obligatory top ten lists. Now, given that this is my first top ten list on an actual site, I figured that I had to go all out in terms of stockpiling on film consumption for the... 

Set in America just two years before The Civil War, Django Unchained starts with the titular slave Django (Jamie Foxx) being “bought” (through excessive violence and murder) by Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), a former dentist turned bounty hunter who needs Django to identify a target from his former plantation. Following said bounty and a discussion about Django’s enslaved wife Broomhilda... 

Litwak’s Arcade is like any old school arcade in the USA, featuring a large assortment of games from a multitude of eras. However, when the lights go out, the arcade standees come to life and interact within a society of their own. One such game is a Donkey Kong Jr. esque game entitled Fix It Felix Jr, where Felix (voiced by Jack McBrayer) has to save a building from being destroyed by the villain,... 

After a failed attempt to stop an asteroid from hitting Earth, the planet’s inhabitants find out that they only have three weeks to live before total annihilation. For Dodge (Steve Carell), this horrific news results in his wife leaving him, which further separates him from a growingly chaotic world. As Dodge sits in a lonely shame spiral, he is suddenly interrupted by Penny (Keira Knightly), a youthful... 

It is almost summer once again and fantasy, science fiction and horror films rule the roost. This summer has three strong superhero contenders, each poised to possibly take the crown as the best superhero movie committed to film: a bat, a spider, and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. A famed director returns to the franchise that cemented his name in genre history as one of the greatest directors of his... 

We’ll admit it – Woody Harrelson has very little to do with this week’s podcast, but when you find a picture of him looking like a madman, you can’t pass it up. We do talk about Emmerich’s decline with 2012 (and what its $65 million box office take probably means), John Cusack’s romantic-comedy side with Say Anything… and High Fidelity, early Oscar buzz around... 

We credited Eli Roth with the creation of the “torture porn” sub-genre of movies – a subsection of film where creative and graphic ways of torturing victims on screen superseded plot or character development. I think it’s time to give Roland Emmerich credit for the disaster porn sub-genre. With Independence Day, Godzilla, and The Day After Tomorrow already under his belt, Emmerich’s latest,... 

I’ve talked before about the value of marketing a movie through an appropriate release date. Capitalizing on a good release date can mean a lot of free marketing for a movie, especially if a studio can somehow get a close association between that release date and public awareness of the movie. This year’s 9 is a great example of this, coming out on 09-09-09 even though it wasn’t a standard release... 

For the first time in a few weeks, we have new reviews to talk about, with Disney’s A Christmas Carol and The Men Who Stare at Goats in theaters. Up is headed for DVD/Blu-ray this week which has us excited. We also have our first conversation about artist of the month John Cusack, looking at movies that don’t feature a lot of the star as well as Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil....