The Film Yap

A shotgun marriage between real and fictional fearmongering that invites you to the wedding, lets you decide on which side to sit, and definitely omits a sermon. Continue reading →

If “After Earth” isn’t the worst movie made this year, it’s certainly the laziest and most wasteful. Continue reading →

Rock solid summer entertainment, a good film with a solid sense both of what it is and what it is not. Continue reading →

“Oblivion” makes some ill-advised narrative decisions and largely wastes Tom Cruise, but a curious combination of analog patience and digital prowess saves it. Continue reading →

“Videodrome” shows how David Cronenberg is sometimes a provocateur only to a point. But he also wasn’t far from his cinematic incisions that cut the deepest. Continue reading →

I laughed. I cried. I shamelessly applauded. “The Good, The Bad, and The Schlocky”: An annual review of schlock cinema in 2012. Continue reading →

The first WWE-studio based film not to feature a professional wrestler. But nothing short of Stone Cold Steve Austin himself could save this heap of garbage. Continue reading →

Of the bad Bond movies, “Moonraker” is truly a stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder. Continue reading →

This week, Austin takes on a caveman who never died, a family that never backed down and a sexy Jeff Goldblum? Continue reading →

Nick, Joe, Austin and Chris gang up for a free-wheeling and spoiler-riffic discussion of Ridley Scott’s bold new “Aliens” prequel, “Prometheus.” Continue reading →