We’ve been away for a while so it’s time to catch up on the best and worst of the summer crop of movies so far. If we were on top of things this might have only been a clip show, collecting together reviews, but instead you get to listen as Thomas and Rafe start with this week’s new releases, Man of Steel and This is the End and work backwards through the past few weeks, including... 

We’re back and making up for lost time with reviews of The Last Exorcism Part II, Jack the Giant Slayer, and dueling reviews of Oz the Great and Powerful. We also catch up on a couple of movie trailers, with varying opinions on Now You See Me and Iron Man 3. Somehow, regardless of the discussion topic, we keep coming back to analyzing franchises of the past like Nightmare on Elm Street or The... 

I’ve been trying to get this rebooted column kicked off for a while now and this year’s football extravaganza has finally given me the motivation to do so. So welcome to the new trailer park, where we gather the latest trailers and commercials to hit the web and give you our opinions on how interested we are in the movies they promote – in other words, how well the trailers do their... 

The big Oscar related news this week is that Eddie Murphy has been announced as host for the annual awards gala. My first reaction this probably matched a lot of other people’s: “What is this, 1987?” Let’s be honest. Murphy’s heyday was over two decades ago when he hit the big screen after breaking in with Saturday Night Live and entertained audiences as Axel Foley in the Beverly Hills Cop... 

With Rise of the Planet of the Apes, 20th Century Fox looks to revive their Planet of the Apes franchise. Based on the 1963 novel La Planete des Singes by Pierre Boulle, the original movie hit the theaters in 1968 starring Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowall in Franklin J. Schaffner’s classic Planet of the Apes. Since then, they provided four sequels – Beneath, Escape, Conquest and Battle –... 

The Planet of the Apes franchise hasn’t gotten a lot of respect in recent years. Sure, there’s that wonderful The Simpsons parody where Troy McClure stars in a musical version, but that hardly counters the Tim Burton remake of the 1968 classic. As much as people love monkeys these days, Planet of the Apes has pretty much been left alone… until now. This year we get a prequel of sorts to Planet... 

The latest in the string of stoner comedies is Your Highness, directed by David Gordon Green, who also gave us Pineapple Express. The movie stars James Franco and Danny McBride (who co-wrote the film with Ben Best). The movie starts out with Thadeous (McBride) about to be hung for the crime of seducing the dwarf king’s bride. His manservant, Courtney (Rasmus Hardiker), is in the stocks being... 

I think it’s fair to think that nobody has had super-high expectations of The Green Hornet. First of all, it’s not like the character is Batman, although the two did cross paths in the super-silly Adam West days of playing the caped crusader. Secondly, Seth Rogen’s name precludes the movie from taking too serious an approach to the pulp-hero, both as writer and as lead actor. Rogen may have shed... 

Hey everybody, I’ll be reviewing The Green Hornet this weekend with the site’s official review, but when I have an advance review drop in my lap it’s hard to pass it up – particularly since my schedule is going to keep me from seeing the movie until later in the weekend. Kim got to see an advance showing and was kind enough to send in her thoughts on the movie. Have a look: The... 

Compared to contemporary expressions of art, Allen Ginsberg’s famous poem “Howl” seems almost tame. In a world where movies manage PG-13 and R ratings despite depictions of oral sex, and the artistic merit of such depictions are almost never called into question. In the contemporary world, the fame Ginsberg earned over the obscenity trial his poem spawned would go unnoticed and both poet and...