It’s the last weekend of August, dear readers, and the summer movie season is at an end. But there’s still plenty of cool stuff coming to our theaters this year, from James Bond to Star Wars and everything in between. This week’s installment of Trailer Trashin’ takes a look at The Martian, the upcoming sci-fi film from director Ridley Scott. Premise: A manned mission to Mar...[Read More]
When was the last time you saw a cinematic sex scene that felt anything like real life? Movies can’t seem to help turning sex into a glossy fantasy, or else a joke – among recent releases, you can give Trainwreck some credit for realism in depicting intercourse, but never without a laugh to follow. So it’s particularly refreshing, to some degree even shocking, to see sex depicted with the kind of ...[Read More]
For some time now, the horror films we’ve been subjected to around Halloween have been, for the most part terrible. This year there’s a film being released that looks like it might actually be a decent genre offering – the new horror-comedy Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse! The film follows three scouts and lifelong friends as they join forces with one badass cocktail waitress to become the w...[Read More]