"Cannonball Run 2" improves upon the original in virtually every way. I mean, it's still essentially plotless. It's still deeply, profoundly, staggeringly stupid. It still feels like a bunch of washed-up celebrities (okay, I guess Burt Reynolds was still at the height of his popularity...though I think his star was starting to decline at this point) doing glorified talk show appearances (it's kind of like an extra long episode of "The Love Boat"). The jokes are broad and obvious. There…

I honestly cannot understand people who don't like Tom Cruise. But if he's just not your particular cup of tea, that's fine. I don't like "Fury Road" and I suspect that I am wrong in this but I've tried to get into several times (I think I've watched it four times at this point) and it just leaves me cold for whatever reason. So I get it. And I can't yell at someone for not liking Tom Cruise expecting that…

Looking at his filmography, "Savage" Steve Holland has technically made more than three movies but most of those seem to be "Made for TV" efforts and so forth. I know the dude is probably thriving within the Nickleodeon machinery or whatever, but I really wish he'd made more than three hysterical theatrical films (this, "One Crazy Summer", and the woefully underseen "How I Got Into College") because his is a gonzo cinematic voice that I really respond to.

Of those…

First of all, look at that fucking poster! I ed this movie being merely all right, a middle-of-the-road Clint Eastwood picture, but I purchased it on blu-ray at a pawn shop merely because the cover art was that badass Frank Frazetta painting of Clint looking like a mythic hero with Sondra Locke clutching him like a damsel in distress. I mean, owning that piece of art in some form alone is worth the $5.99 I paid for the disc. If…

Marisa Tomei winning an Oscar for Best ing Actress was long considered one of the biggest screw-ups in Oscar history. She was considered undeserving, her performance too light and insubstantial for an award.

If you hold this opinion, I respect your viewpoint. But you can also go fuck yourself.

If you can watch the scene at the end where Marisa explains positraction on the witness stand without smiling, and without marveling at how fully and beautifully Marisa Tomei hijacks the…

There's a line in this movie that breaks me. Every single time. It's when Drew Barrymore, as Danielle, the alleged real-life inspiration for Cinderella, asks her wicked stepmother, played by a rarely-better Anjelica Huston, if there was...well...

"Was there ever a moment, even in its smallest measurement, that you loved me at all?"

"How can one love a pebble in their shoe?" replies the stepmother.

This line, delivered so coldly, without a hint of empathy or remorse, guts me. I…