One of the running themes of this week’s show is the question of “Why?” Explaining why we have the opinions we have is an important element of film critique, which we talk about this week as Rafe rants about Kevin Smith’s anti-critic Twitter tirade. We also talk about the rising prices of movie tickets and how the 3-D phenomenon has been exploited to that end. Finally, we offer... 

It’s been a while since we’ve had a fantastic time travel movie, and with the release of Hot Tub Time Machine it will continue to be a while before we get one that’s fantastic. The time travel comedy from Accepted director Steve Pink (and Sex Drive scribes John Morris and Sean Anders, as well as new scriptwriter John Heald) is a movie best described as good, but suffers from conflicting intentions... 

So one night a bunch of guys are sitting around with nothing better to do than hop in a hot tub and start drinking. The next thing you know craziness has ensued and the group of friends are transported back in time to 1986. There are leg warmers, jam boxes, walkmans, neon colors on clothes, and the standard plastic sunglasses of the day, gee, I hope the frames and the ear pieces are two different colors....