After the release of “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story,” John C. Reilly literally took his character and a makeshift band on tour to play live in front of true fans and the curious. The whole thing was a big, fat joke, but the musicians were skilled, Reilly charmed the crowd and the music trumped [...]
We here at the Devil’s Avocado like our lists to come out on Mondays (or the Tuesday after a national holiday-Hey, I got BBQs to attend and war movies to watch), and like Spinal Tap’s amps, our lists go to eleven.
Now that school’s out, I’ve gotten my bike out of storage, and I’ve attended both [...]
I find it telling that the original Star Trek theme music doesn’t make itself known in it’s full glory until the very end of the movie, when the characters disappear and are replaced by the credits of the people who played those characters, the letters whizzing past the screen, waving goodbye, go home, goodnight. Not [...]
I just realized that I had seen I Love You, Man but neglected to write something about it. And now that I’m here - supposedly about to write something about it - I really can’t think of much to say. I liked it. Quite a bit. Yeah.
The thing is, though, I am a big fan [...]
Usually, if I cry at movies - basically, I just get a welling of tears and it doesn’t go much beyond that. But it’s worth noting, at least, because I was certainly moved to the point of tears - where some others may have jumped fully into tears down the face, sniffling, snot dripping…all that [...]
With the recent leak of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and the slew of super-hero movies that have been made or are slated for release in the near future, I got to thinking.
Which actors fit their superhero/villian roles the best? Which actors so lifted the character, many times an already-existing American icon, off the splash page of [...]
It’s a rough cut. It’s missing the score, some lines of dialogue, most computer FX, and even, reportedly, entire scenes that had yet to have been filmed when the FOX film, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, was leaked Tuesday.
The last time I picked up a Wolverine comic, he didn’t have his memory back, Magneto had yet to [...]
Lazing about the house on a day off is often relaxing and a good way to re-center one’s self, especially if you’ve been busy, and have nothing to do at the moment. Unfortunately, there are hazards, and anyone who believes they can be at ease in the safety of their own home, anyone who believes [...]
I think it’s a very strange thing for Alan Moore to disown (automatically) any movie version of his graphic novels. True, history has been unkind to them - the atrocious, pukingly awful League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, for example, must have been disheartening. However, he not only disowns them (and publicly admonishes them), but he refuses [...]
I am super-crazy-psyched about Watchmen coming out this Friday. And that surprises me. And it scares me.
I am not a Zack Snyder fan.
I thought the opening moments of his Dawn of the Dead remake were interesting, but the rest of the movie was not scary and really just sort of depressing. So many horror directors [...]
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