Movie Masochist

DELIVERY MAN “Hey, you got a cup I can use?” Sometimes a movie is just a movie. As a film critic, it’s easy to forget this—to read between the frames of even the most asinine and formulaic celluloid for something, anything remotely interesting enough to hang 300 words off of. But sometimes a movie is […]

I watch a lot of terrible movies at the behest of this newspaper. Shuddersome movies. Movies that no rational person—let alone a self-respecting film editor—would ever presume the circulation of this paper to have any interest in. Underdog. Alvin and the Chipmunks 2: The Squeakuel. Last Vegas. In the newspaper biz, we refer to these […]