The Film Crusade

There’s a reason why movies like “The Men Who Stare at Goats” don’t normally get made. But, please. Save your money. Josh Long explains why you shouldn’t bother wasting your time with this senseless, hollow clusterf*ck of a movie.

Spike Jonze’s “Where the Wild Things Are” deserves some love in a world full of so much hate. Josh Long shakes off the haters and defends “Wild Things,” claiming that the filmmakers proved everything they’d set out to achieve.

With acclaimed director Lars von Trier’s latest film, all signs pointed towards a tour de force of awesomeness that I couldn’t wait to experience for myself. But two hours later, I left the theater feeling cheated, drained, and irritable.

Way back in the 70’s and 80’s, it was much easier to produce an edge-of-your-seat thriller. John Carpenter knew that. Carpenter’s examination of embodied evil which is inescapable has long been mimicked and rehashed over the last couple decades.

Every film has a different code of ethics for its newspaper, reporter, editor, and even its subjects. The most recent newspaper movie, “State of Play”, reminded us of just how downright dirty editors and reporters on film can be.

As we are now ten years from the release of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, now would be a good time to look back at the movies fans love to hate.

On June 30th it will have been 20 years since Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing” was screened in theaters. Lee’s controversial yet bold exercise in filmmaking proved himself a pioneer in understanding race relations and certainly one of the best black voices in film.