During one of our mini-episodes of the Devil’s Advocates podcast, I was complaining about how filmmakers now have such great technology at their disposal and make horrible movies with all of that technology. In the last five years, we have been inundated with movies likeAvatar, The Last Airbender, Clash of the Titans and a whole lot of other horrible […]

Take one part James Bond, one part Indiana Jones and mix in some cowboys and throw in some aliens with a side of Olivia Wilde sex appeal and you get the latest Jon Favreau directed movie. The movie is based on a little known graphic novel by Platinum Studios from 2006. I actually remember back […]

Marvel Comics has been on quite a roll with their movies this year (Thor, X-Men: First Class) and Captain America: The First Avenger keeps that streak going. Directed by Joe Johnston (The Rocketeer, Jumanji) and starring Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America and the great Hugo Weaving as his arch-villain the Red Skull, Captain America is a great thrill […]

The Ward is the latest from director John Carpenter, who hasn’t had a movie in theaters since 2001′s Ghosts Of Mars. That movie was awful. It had Ice Cube in it. Ice Cube the rapper. And, still The Ward is worse. Much, much worse. Which I thought was impossible. If 2011 has shown me anything, it’s that when it […]

Ah, remakes and sequels. Sequels to remakes. Remakes of a sequel. Sometimes it’s really difficult to keep track of all the rehashed nonsense that Hollywood pumps out these days. And, because of that some movies get lost in the shuffle. The [Rec] movies ([Rec] because everything is being recorded on a video camera and that’s what the viewer […]

At The Devil’s Advocates we like to give different movie genres, directors and actors a chance in the spotlight for a month. It’s a way to look at movies that you might have missed or never knew about. We take a look through their careers and review their movies. For July it gives us great […]

13 Assassins is director Takashi Miike’s latest movie from Japan. It’s quite a refreshing movie from him. Miike (Audition, Ichi The Killer) is known for bizarre Japanese movies filled with buckets of gore and blood-spraying stumps. Not this time. I was pleasantly surprised by what has to be, for me at least, the best movie […]

Recently, with the help of Things From Another World and their Nick And Dent section I’ve rediscovered the Aliens series of comic books and graphic novels that Dark Horse Comics published starting in 1988. This first volume collects “Outbreak”, “Nightmare Asylum” and “Female War”. These first three comic book miniseries were meant as sequels to […]

Every now and then, I am pleasantly surprised at the movies. And, every now and then, I am devastatingly disappointed at the movies. I know I am biased to stoner movies and silly comedies. I really wanted to like this movie. I am a big fan of everyone involved in this. On paper and in […]