Let me be honest with you folks, horror movies are a guilty pleasure. I LOVEEEE a good horror flick. But really, it’s the old school ones I love the most. George Ramero to be exact.

You may or may not have heard of his original movie, “The Crazies” set in a rural town where the townsfolk are going fucking nuts due to a accident with a government bio-weapon. And it’s up to the sheriff and his pregnant wife to escape the US troops sent to the town to kill everybody.

This remake takes everything great about that first movie… and makes it even better. Yes, that’s right, the remake is better then the original. It stars good ol‘ Timothy Olyphant (Deadwood, Justified) This dude seems to have a pattern…

It does everything a horror movie should do and does to right.

-Shit jumps out of the woods and goes “Boo”

-Awesome suspense and mystery.

-Hilariousness to break up those tense moments.

The ending is MUCH diffrent then the original… but I’m not gonna spoil that.

Like the title of the article suggests, this is BY FAR the best horror movie movie since I saw SAW many years ago.  This, like all other horror affairs must be watching in theaters full of people. Once during the screening, we had one guy yell “Oh SHIT!” out of the silence. Just a hilarious social moviegoing moment. We need more films like this.

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I wanna start out by saying how much I love Kevin Smith and his work has had a GREAT influence on my writing. I’ve grown up watching his films and might not be writing today if I didn’t see them. He’s the master of random banter in random places…

And he deserves a lot better then this.

Cop Out is a cookie cutter, cut and paste buddy cop movie about Tracy Morgan cracking one liners at 70kph and Bruce Willis looking like George Clooney at the Oscars… he just doesn’t wanna be there.

The two like any other buddy cops,  get the job done bending the law. But of course, they’re suspanded right before Willis’ daughter’s wedding. So he tries to sell a baseball card to get the money. That’s right. A baseball card… but before he can sell it, it’s stolen by a really dumbass crook played by Sean William Scott that knows parkour. It’s random I know.

The rest of the movie is Willis and Morgan going from place to random place, bumbling through their police work.

Going back to Scott, he’s the only bright spot of this movie, he seemed totally into his role and was one of the few times I was actually laughing.

Kevin Smith needs to regain my faith and trust. Simple as that. I didn’t think he went for those genre films… but times are a changin’ I guess. Bring back Jay and Slient Bob please… and we’ll forget this ever happened.

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“Bright Star” Janet Patterson
“Coco before Chanel” Catherine Leterrier
“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” Monique Prudhomme
“Nine” Colleen Atwood
“The Young Victoria” Sandy Powell

Winner: The Young Victoria. Period Piece FTW. Those things must be a bitch to make.

“Avatar” Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro; Set Decoration: Caroline Smith
“Nine” Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
“Sherlock Holmes” Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
“The Young Victoria” Art Direction: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Maggie Gray

Winner: Avatar. Nuff said.

Penelope Cruz, Nine
Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
Mo’nique, Precious

Winner: Mo’nique, She was a monster. Just a monster. No one deserves it more then her. She needs to do it more often.

Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell, District 9
Nick Hornby, An Education
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche, In The Loop
Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious
Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air

Winner: Precious

I’m very happy to see a black screenwriter getting some love. Though I LOVED In the Loop’s writing.

“Il Divo” Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
“Star Trek” Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
“The Young Victoria” Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore

Winner: Star Trek

I gotta give it to TYV though… period pieces are a bitch to do makeup for.

“The Door” Juanita Wilson and James Flynn

“Instead of Abracadabra” Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström
“Kavi” Gregg Helvey
“Miracle Fish” Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey
“The New Tenants” Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson

Winner: The New Tenants.

I caught all these in a row in the city. All were pretty amasing.

“China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province” Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill
“The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner” Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher
“The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant” Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
“Music by Prudence” Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
“Rabbit à la Berlin” Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra

Winner: Music

Right Again!

“French Roast” Fabrice O. Joubert
“Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty” Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell
“The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)” Javier Recio Gracia
“Logorama” Nicolas Schmerkin
“A Matter of Loaf and Death” Nick Park

Winner: French Roast

FIND THIS FILMS AND WATCH THEM.

Glad to see Nick Park back.