I will gladly admit the Mundt Nerd-o-Meter is going all about haywire right now at the release of the trailer to X-Men: First Class. After the much loathed celluloid abortion that was X-Men Last Stand — Brett Ratner’s shameless taint-fiddling shit bomb — the X-Franchise desperately needed to get its stomach pumped from the toxic […]
10
Feb
Bryan Singer returns to save his glorious franchise from Brett "The Hack" Rattner — nerds everywhere, rejoice!
13
Jan
Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister finally gets his documentary
We don’t have any more rock stars. Sorry kids, thems the facts. Sure we have plenty of fame-reluctant indie bands floating around, talentless attention-starved pop stars clogging the airwaves, and more than enough material-obsessed rappers to fill the Mall of America, but we don’t have any Rock Stars. You know, guys like David Lee Roth […]
16
Dec
Sean Penn + Brad Pitt + Terrence Malick = Awesome
I heart Terrence Malick…
14
Dec
Venturing where no surfers have gone before
Who doesn’t like a good surf movie, especially when it combines a healthy dose of the culture of the areas surfed? Isolated is such a film, and maybe more. Executive Produced Ryan Phillippe (he of MacGruber and Way Of the Gun fame) and Geoff Clark, and produced by Matt Meyerson, Isolated tracks a handful of […]
13
Dec
Johnny Depp throws on the tights for one more go around
The trailer for the new Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides film was released today. I’m not a huge fan of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, but the special effects make them worth seeing if only for the dazzling eye candy. Plus, Johnny Depp kinda rules as Captain Jack Sparrow and Penelope Cruz […]
2
Dec
Sophia Coppola releases a serious cinematic turd
Madman Mundt and the Elf breakdown Sofia Coppola’s latest, Somewhere. The film is out in limited release in the US on December 22nd. The Elf As I write this, there’s a little mantra running through my head: I WILL NOT BE SNARKY. I will not say that Sofia Coppola’s movies get made because her dad […]
18
Nov
Danny McBride, James Franco and Natalie Portman get their fantasy on
What’s there not to like about Danny McBride? If you go by Halloween costumes as some sort of scalable meter of cultural significance, then Kenny Powers is the biggest thing to hit the world since a certain group of Chileans decided to hang out underground for a couple months. In Your Highness McBride teams up […]
4
Nov
The best of indie cinema hits Hollywood November 4th - 11th
It’s that time again. AFI Fest brings a well curated selection of films from all over the world to the film capitol of the universe: Los Angeles. Instead of the usual glut of exploding superheroes and Katherine Heigl meet-cutes, AFI Fest gives Los Angeles the chance to see films that maybe have some, um, intelligence […]
