BAD GRANDPA Heh.
  • BAD GRANDPA Heh.

It's a dude-centric Film section this week, featuring the return of a jackass, the majesty of Redford, and a disappointment from Cormac McCarthy and Ridley Scott.

THE COUNSELOR This is a tricky one—it's a fool's game to underestimate writer Cormac McCarthy, and this thing has a top-notch cast, and Ridley Scott seems slightly less bewildered than he did with Prometheus. But man... I suspect The Counselor is not a very good movie. I am not sure yet? I might need to see it again? Sorry. This is a tricky one. (But I'm pretty sure it isn't very good. And I'm 100 percent sure that even if McCarthy and Scott didn't misfire—even if this thing did have a chance of being good—Cameron Diaz would've ruined it.)

BAD GRANDPA Alison insists this movie is "tired," but all I know is that whenever she described a scene to me, I thought it sounded hilarious. This probably doesn't reflect well on Bad Grandpa so much as it reflects poorly on me.

ALL IS LOST Robert Redford teams up with the director of Margin Call for a fantastic, brutal, thrilling story about an old man and the sea. Seeing one thing this week? See this.

There's more, as ever, in Film Shorts—including a lineup of all the horror films screening for Halloween, a review of The Patience Stone, and a look at the Romero documentary Birth of the Living Dead—in Film Shorts. And here are your Movie Times.