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1:00 Actor Jason Hervey plans the young Thornton Melon. Hervey, of course, played Fred Savage’s older brother, Wayne, on The Wonder Years. If I’m doing my math correctly, this means that Savage is somehow related to Rodney Dangerfield.
1:15 I’ve …
:12 This is a Tristar picture! Awwww… this truly is a trip down memory lane.
:23 This is a Carolco picture too! For what it’s worth, I’d still love to interview Mario Kassar. My top three dream interviews are with …
About a month ago, Genius Entertainment sent me a lovely DVD three-pack, the Maneater Collection, featuring three so-bad-they’re-good movies involving down-on-their-luck actors battling enormous animals with a predilection for human flesh. I tore through the films in hasty fashion, enjoyably …
If I ever needed to single out a movie as being the poster child of the so-bad-it’s-good concept, I don’t think I could do much better than Fair Game. The film is positively awful… and it’s hard not to …
The last few months have proved to be a treasure trove of rumors about the upcoming Ghost Busters III project. First it was a question of whether the film would be made. Now that it’s scheduled for a 2012 release, …
When Chris Neumer found out that Gary Busey--a man who can and does blink his eyes one at a time--would be matching wits with a hungry tiger in the movie
Maneater, he grabbed his laptop and began taking notes. Because you don't pass up opportunities to write about gold like this.
Within the last few years, I have begun to truly enjoy and appreciate the horrifically bad. On one hand, I am insanely happy about this. I am sick of having intensely high standards and being disappointed by directors for ‘only’ …
I was watching an NBA preview with Jalen Rose recently where Rose called the movie New Jack City a classic. As soon as he said those words, I found myself nodding in agreement with him. Nino Brown, Cash Money Brothers, …
As the Academy honors the best of the year that was, Chris Neumer gets inside the evening's events from a comfortable place on his couch.
As the Academy again honors the best of the year that was, Chris Neumer gets inside the evening’s events from a comfortable place on his couch. Welcome to the eighth annual
Stumped Oscar running commentary.
As the Academy again honors the best of the year that was, Chris Neumer gets inside the evening’s events from a comfortable place on his couch. Welcome to the ninth annual
Stumped Oscar running commentary.
As the Academy again honors the best of the year that was, Chris Neumer gets inside the evening’s events from a comfortable place on the couch. Welcome to the tenth annual
Stumped Oscar running commentary.
Chris Neumer sat down to watch director Steven Spielberg's iconic film,
Raiders of the Lost Ark and took notes. Get inside what made Marion Ravenswood drinking contest win so damn impressive, why the film doesn't have a bad guy, one of the best stunts of all time and just how strange of a dude Rene Belloq is in this running commentary.
At this point, I’ve done commentaries for roughly 25 movies. Some of the movies I’ve commented on are good, some are bad and some are so perplexingly out-of-the-box that mere words don’t quite capture the essence of their insane …
Star Wars is one of the true iconic movies of Hollywood. It is more than simply an institution, it is a juggernaut in history. I’ve seen writer/director George Lucas’ film times too numerous to count.
:03 I actually associate the …
Street Fighteris the worst movie I have ever seen. I did not know this prior to writing this column. I didn’t go into it blind, suspecting a Soderberghian epic, but I truly did not expect it to be the …
Director Ivan Reitman’s 1981 film Stripes is one of the true classics of modern comedy along with Caddyshack, Animal House and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. It is also one of the seminal films of my youth. Stripeswas …
Andrew Dice Clay is something of a mystery to me. Clay first hit it big on the comedy scene in 1987. In hindsight, his goal appears to have been to become the white Eddie Murphy. And, at least on the …
To date, there hasn’t been any real kind of methodology behind writing a running commentary of a film. I just pick a mish-mosh of horrendously bad movies (Super Mario Brothers/Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus), movies that impacted my …
:37 Kelly McGillis, where have you gone? I’m looking at her filmography and since Top Gun, I have heard of only three movies that McGillis has appeared in; The Accused, The Babe and North. I’m not sure …
Weekend at Bernie’s has earned a place in the American cultural lexicon as something of a cult classic. It is a very poor comedy in all the ways that one might expect a lower-budgeted, late ‘80s comedy to be poor. …
