TRAILER REVIEW: ‘The Men Who Stare At Goats’

This is a pretty interesting trailer for a number of reasons, but let’s start with the title, which is awful no matter how clever the book on which it’s based is: “The Men Who Stare At Goats.”

Dear Lakeshore: Let’s get crackin’ on the ‘Bandwagon’ DVD, please

One lazy weekend in high school, I was channel surfing through my family’s selection of, like, 10 HBO channels (before that became standard for everyone), and I remember settling on this movie. It’s a pretty cool movie, and I’d never seen a movie like it. It’s about a bunch of guys (with no future) who start a garage band called Circus Monkey, which, of course, is an awful name for a band, but it didn’t really matter because the music… Well, the music in this movie was pretty kick-ass. It’s all grunge-pop stuff from the mid-’90s, but it’s pretty awesome.

CLASSIC REVIEW: ‘Adaptation’

Part of a continuous series of classic film reviews from some of the most eloquent, hilarious film critics from yesterday and today.

I started this “classic reviews” collection to highlight “classic reviews.”

Now, I’m thinking I started it just so I could post Stephen Hunter reviews to Cribbster.

REVIEW: ‘Inglourious Basterds’

Eli Roth, left, and Bratt Pitt in "Inglourious Basterds"

Some people are upset with so-called “spoilers” in this review. Yes, I suppose by definition there are “spoilers” in this review. However, 90 percent of the reviews written about “Inglourious Basterds” have discussed the movie’s ending at length because it’s the most controversial part of the movie (and why at least 50 percent of the audience is going to go see it).

So, uh… alert. … Spoilers ahead… I guess.

The final scene of “Inglourious Basterds” ends with U.S. soldier Lt. Aldo Raine whipping out a six-inch knife to carve a Swastika into the head of a Nazi colonel in the middle of the woods. After driving the blade about half an inch into the man’s forehead, Raine, played hilariously by Brad Pitt, slowly drags the knife to make his mark. Blood spills out of the colonel’s forehead. He screams, clutching the French soil in agony. Out of context it’s a terribly gruesome moment. After two-plus hours of similar World War II-based carnage, it’s only… kind of gruesome.

‘Basterds’ on Friday or Quentin Tarantino’s butt-crazy Top 20 list

Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” comes out this Friday. I’ll just post something Tarantino-related everyday because, fuck it, I’ve been waiting for this movie for, like, five years. Back when Sly Stone and Adam Sandler were supposed to be in it.

Quentin Tarantino named his Top 20 favorite movies from 1992 to the present. Why 1992? Because that’s the year he became a bonafide director, the year “Reservoir Dogs” came out. Good times.