When Bad Movies Should Know Better: Cameron Crowe’s Aloha (2015)
You've probably noticed from my recent posts that I've been on a bit of a bad superhero movies kick lately. Well, it's actually more of a bad movies kick in...
No, Bat-Nipples Didn’t Ruin Batman & Robin; The Movie Was Ruined Already
Last Friday, I wrote a post about Sam Raimi's occasionally-so-bad-it's-good, but-usually-just-bad superhero film Spider-Man 3. In that post, I compared some of the film's sillier moments to that still-reigning gold standard of...
You May Be Sick of Superhero Movies Now, But It Could Be Worse: It Could Be Spider-Man 3
These days, it seems like everybody is complaining about superhero movie fatigue, and it's easy to understand why. The respective studios behind comic book publishing titans Marvel and DC have gone into...
From the Vault: Nina Simone’s Live at Montreux 1976
Editor's Note: This past weekend, I watched the recently-released Nina Simone documentary What Happened, Miss Simone? The film, directed by Academy Award-nominated documentarian Liz Garbus, uses footage from Simone's gripping, shambolic, brilliant performance at...
Jheri Curl Cinema: Moonwalker (1988)
Like most human measures of time, Jheri Curl June is intimately tied to the cycles of birth and death. The month opens with the birthdays of two of jheri curl...
Jheri Curl Cinema: The Last Dragon (1985)
This year's Jheri Curl June Ladies' Week closes on a bittersweet note, because we're talking about Vanity: a tragic chapter in the jheri curl chronicle. Born Denise Katrina Matthews in Niagra Falls, Ontario,...