Battles without Honor and Humanity

To prepare for a new series that's currently in the planning stages (partly because I miss doing the "Best Pictures from the Outside In" series, which is on hiatus), I'm watching and writing about Japanese gangster/exploitation films. I started with The Yakuza Papers (1973-74), a six-film series about dishonor among thieves in postwar Japan. Read about the first film.

Away We Go to Austin with Todd P

Wrote a couple reviews.

Away We Go starts out as the worst film in the world. Then it gets better. A LOT better. Read the rest.

Todd P Goes to Austin was the best film we showed at the Chicago International Movies & Music Festival in March. Read about it.

Thank You, James Rocchi

You've simplified my life with this sentence from your review of Transformers: ROTFL, which I refuse to see:

"And no, I can't shut my brain off and have fun, anymore than I could rip out my tongue and enjoy a meal, because my brain is where I feel fun."

I couldn't have said it better myself. No one could have.

Drag Me to Hell: I love it.

I can't remember the last time I had so much fun at the movies.

Read about it.