Comedy
Rod Lott
With Demoted, you suffer an hour and a half down the drain; comedian Robert Klein suffers the indignity of dancing in his underwear around a stripper pole. You can forget it; he has to live with it.
Tuesday 21 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: nudity
Demoted
I’d almost rather work for Tate Publishing than watch it again.
Meatballs
Not the Murricane’s tastiest.
Comedy
Rod Lott
My brothers and I watched 1979's Meatballs so many times as kids in its initial run on HBO that, when watching the new Blu-ray release, I remembered almost everything about the summer camp comedy, which marked the first starring role of one Bill Murray, not yet 30.
Project X
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Kill Speed
Higher. Faster. Harder. Dumber.
Action
Rod Lott
I commend you, Kill Speed, for trying to win audience favor, by killing off a drunk Tom Arnold in your opening scene. We don’t see enough junkie’s trailers being blown up these days in such a spectacular fashion. Yet with the level of enjoyment free-falling from there, you quickly prove yourself the year’s worst action movie.
Don't Go in the Woods
Don’t go near the directorial debut of Vincent D’Onofrio.
Horror
Rod Lott
New to DVD, 2010’s Don't Go in the Woods is not to be confused with 1981’s Don't Go in the Woods. That one was a cheap slasher movie; this one is a cheap slasher movie in which characters wonder what John Fogerty and the Donner party have in common, and then sing songs.
The FP
Dayum!
Comedy
Rod Lott
Those initials of The FP stand for Frazier Park, a small town in California riddled with gangs — 248 rules the north; 245, the south. These aren't the Boyz N the Hood gangs you're thinking of; these guys are interested only in Beat-offs. That's not the X-rated activity you're thinking of, either; it's the named for competitions of the Beat Beat Revelation video game — this creative film's don't-sue-us equivalent of Dance Dance Revolution.
American Animal
If he were my roomie, I’d be on trial for murder now.
Comedy
Rod Lott
Here now, a list of things that the protagonist (antagonist?) of American Animal does over the course of the film:
Chesty Morgan's Bosom Buddies
You're in for a real t(r)eat.
Nobody Else but You
An ill-fated actress serves as the heart of a strange French thriller.
