Posts under ‘Fun Flicks of the 21st century’

“GIGLI doesn’t need a review; it needs an inquest”

In the entire history of cinema, has there ever been a film as universally hated as Gigli? There could be one or two, but not likely. Of course, Gigli was despised of long before it was released. For months the advance buzz was that the film was terrible. But this “buzz” was sourced from one [...]

Halloween Pick # 8 | “Shaun of the Dead”

When IDT Entertainment (now Starz Media) was doing pre-production on Masters of Horror they asked for my opinion about possible directors they wanted to approach. They were thinking about people like Eli Roth and Rob Zombie. I suggested Kevin Smith (even though the closest thing he came to horror was the poop-monster in Dogma). To [...]