When I was in high school, my favorite weekend pastime was to head over to a friend's house, grab some pizza, and watch movies until the next morning (a shocking revelation, I'm sure). On one of these nights, a night that had already started several inside jokes ("it's deadly -- to fires!"), I entered a Hollywood Video with my friends Jon and Lane, in search of one or two more movies to add to the ones that I had already brought. Lane rented the astonishingly bad direct-to-video horror movie Death Factory, and I rented Eli Roth's Cabin Fever.

Based on the DVD release date, this must have been early 2004, and both my full-blown obsession with movies and my love of horror films were still in their formative stages. I had no idea what to expect, but Cabin Fever is truly a ludicrous, off-the-wall delight f...Read the entire review

Note: I usually try and write spoiler-free reviews, but I have a hard time believing anyone who isn't a hardcore fan of Cabin Fever will bother reading this write-up, and an equally hard time believing that those who want to see Cabin Fever 2 (an even rarer breed) will be too upset at this point if I spoil bits of both movies.

Cabin Fever, as readers of my Blu-Ray review will know, is my favorite horror movie of the decade. If you missed it, well, the short version is that it's so much more bizarre, hilarious, and insane than most of the movies I see, and I ate up every wonderfully gory second of it. In 2006, the first news of a sequel came trickling down, and I immediately got excited. Sure, history has taught us that the vast majority of s...Read the entire review

Ugh.

That was pretty much my reaction to the trailers for Zombieland when they started playing in theaters in mid-2009. Horror comedy, and specifically zombie comedy, came back with a vengeance upon the arrival of the extremely popular British export Shaun of the Dead, and soon after, lesser fare, like Boy Eats Girl, Night of the Living Dorks, Zombie Strippers, and Dance of the Dead flooded the DVD shel...Read the entire review

In 2006, on basically a whim, I decided to drive up to Seattle and see District B13, because some email offer had given me a free movie ticket of my choice. I was pleasantly surprised; while several critics and friends have criticized the film's plot as being either boring or stupid, I was more interested in the action and some of the witty dialogue buried in the script (mainly from Bibi Naceri, who plays the film's villain, Taha). In early 2008, a friend linked me to the trailer for Taken, which took a whole year to reach American shores but was ultimately worth the wait, thanks to an awesome performance by star Liam Neeson and more exhilarating, skull-to-sink action. Both films were helmed by newcomer Pierre Morel, but third time is not the charm. From Paris With Love demonstrates that Morel is still fully capable of directing an entertaining action sequence, but this time, the p...Read the entire review

In a very quiet and unassuming way, a way that almost sneaks up on the viewer, Post Grad manages to become an astonishingly bad movie, the kind that wastes its small measure of potential while simultaneously committing a list's worth of unforgivable crimes of the clich d. There's the old "stitched together from the pieces of better movies" complaint that movie critics often use, but Post Grad may actually be made up of parts from crappy ones. I'm rarely caught off guard by the quality of a movie -- nine times out of ten, I have an approximate idea of how good I'd like it to be and how bad it might be going in -- but director Vicky Jenson and writer Kelly Fremon have really pumped out a shockingly uninspired turd of a film that left me reeling at each new twist and turn.

The measure of promise I mentioned is buried in the film's subject matter: that unique feeling of aimlessness once the...Read the entire review

Note: This DVD contains both the rated and Unrated cuts of Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball, but since the film never played in theaters, I'd be shocked if anyone actually bothered with the R-rated edit, which runs 2 minutes shorter than the Unrated version. I am one of those people who isn't going to bother with the R version: the following review corresponds to the Unrated cut alone.

Reviewing Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball is slightly more complicated than it looks. The question is simple: is it a good movie? Well, it's certainly not great. Nothing here finds the door in the glass ceiling of quality that most DTV pictures tend to find themselves under, anyway. But then, most people also have apparently come to hate -- not dislike, but hate -- the original Smokin' Aces, another movie that isn't great, but has garnered a serious reputationRead the entire review

Funny thing about people who make movies: they generally don't watch 'em. When it comes to genre pictures, it probably isn't that important; an executive producer's awareness of a previous romantic comedy, slasher film or buddy-cop actioner wouldn't be reason shake up the formula, because the formula is the movie. When rocking the boat is the goal, though, it actually pays to know what came before. Give 'Em Hell, Malone doesn't skimp on the gunplay, which was the centerpiece of the popular trailer that popped up online months and months ago, but the movie is filled with the kind of "originality" that feels fresh only to those people who haven't been keeping tabs on what's been made in the few years.

To be fair, the style-homage adapted by Malone has an even bigger problem that trumps the familiarity: consistency. In the film's opening scene, Malone (Thomas Jane) is in the process...Read the entire review

When I sat down to watch Edge of Darkness, Mel Gibson's first starring role in almost a decade, I was thinking about last year's Taken, another film about an aging ex-military man on the trail of violent revenge against those who wronged his daughter. By the time I was leaving, I was thinking about Payback, a movie that started out a specific type of thriller and ended up awkwardly fashioned into a popcorn movie by studio folks with a pair of scissors and a few reels of reshoots. Rock-bottom January expectations might gain the movie a few fans (it's still probably better than Legion), but the final product is clearly neutered, and any fleeting thrills provided by what's left behind wear off in a hurry.

The first few reels of Darkness unfold as a twitchy, paranoid conspiracy thriller, one that begins with Emma Craven (Bojana Novakovic) and her employment with top-sec...Read the entire review

Hollywood produces plenty of cookie-cutter romantic comedies every year, and the saving grace of many of these films is the chemistry between the two leads. Just hire a good casting director, and if you're lucky, you'll nab one or two megastars that can carry even the most predictable schmaltz to audience pleasing results and a comfy financial finish. In the last few years, however, a new trend has emerged: the "quirky" indie movie. Starting with great movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and making its way through to today, with trash like (500) Days of Summer, many of these movies have fought to buck the traditional structure of the romantic comedy. To counter this, studios have opened up their own indie labels, creating a midpoint between these two styles: romances with unique twis...Read the entire review

Yes, Dead Tone is a horror film "presented" by Flavor Flav, who refers to himself as "The Timekeeper" in a 10-second, horribly green-screened intro that features the beclocked rapper decked out in Dracula garb. A cursory IMDb search reveals that this is the third production in what's apparently a whole Nite Tales franchise, following a previous duology film (called Nite Tales: The Movie) and a six-episode TV series (not surprisingly, called "Nite Tales: The Series"). However, even before popping the disc in, I sensed that the branding had less to do with Flav's approval or even the involvement of in-common producer Deon Taylor, and more to do with upping the profile of a no-name horror release (like sticking "National Lampoon" on a frat comedy). Another IMDb and Wikipedia search later, and the truth is revealed: Dead Tone is actually 7eventy 5ive, a 2005 (!) horror film that...Read the entire review

It took British wit to come up with a cleverly straightforward exploitation title like Lesbian Vampire Killers, and it took the morons that run American movie studios to ruin it. Admittedly, the title never made me want to see the film (and based on its reviews and some of the footage, I probably won't), but at the very least, "Lesbian Vampire Killers" gets the viewer's attention, whereas "Vampire Killers", our dull-as-dirt Stateside substitute, does not. The reason I bring this up is that I have just viewed a Thai horror/probably-comedy movie that includes sleaze like the corruption of the innocent (young girls turned go-go dancers turned prostitutes), blood-spewing deaths, grizzled psychics, vindictive witchcraft, and its own set of lesbians -- one that has been sitting on my shelf for months on end waiting for me to review it -- because nobody thought they needed to come up with...Read the entire review

Princess is, at the very least, a visual feast; a fairly unique, if not one-of-a-kind little movie. Making is his feature-length debut, Danish writer/director Anders Morgenthaler has cooked up a bizarre blend of animation and live-action that certainly provides plenty of eye candy for the audience to devour, and his concept of a little girl warped by her mother's porn career and the ex-priest uncle looking to exact a little revenge after the mother dies is pretty gangbusters regardless of the direction -- definitely a potent combination at work. But Morgenthaler's ability to bringing these elements together in a cohesive, satisfying fashion isn't decisive enough, and the movie crumbles like a sandcastle in the wake of a wave.

The majority of Princess is the animated portion, focused on August (Thure Lindhardt) and his relationship with Mia (Mira Hilli M ller Hallund), the little girl hi...Read the entire review

I've mentioned before that many writer/producer/directors lack the perspective to understand that their screenplays don't make any sense, and that allowing an unbiased outsider to give their two cents can make a big difference. Diagnosis: Death doesn't have that familiar stench of ego that would suggest co-writer/director Jason Stutter refused to seek out said perspective; instead, it seems like people were too nice to bring up the relatively little things slowing his movie down. It's not a particularly bad film, like an iMurders, but it is merely a series of genial-but-not-quite-funny scenes, interspersed with genuine attempts to scare. As far as the latter goes, it's a good job, an "A for effort" at the very least, but despite the presence of several funny people, Stutter's movie remains comedically inert.

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Wrong Turn at Tahoe is a fairly dull action film swayed in all directions by the winds of expectation. The movie stars Oscar-winner Cuba Gooding, Jr., once a marquee name but long since relegated to Blockbuster premieres in action movies (for whatever reason), and it's a direct-to-video release, a factor that causes people's hopes to dry up extra quickly. Anyone who reads my reviews frequently will probably have noticed that I'm a lenient guy. First and foremost, I watch movies to be entertained, and my willingness to be entertained is pretty high; I've seen hundreds of movies that weren't very good, but managed to squeak by thanks to one or two elements that I enjoyed even while everything else around it falls as flat as a board. For better or worse, I am also strongly swayed by the expectations that I bring to the movie, and watching Wrong Turn at Tahoe, I began to wonder: what do viewe...Read the entire review

Goliath is a film about the quiet despair that fills a man when he sees his life slipping out of his grasp. In this case, our unnammed protagonist (David Zellner) is already frustrated by the fact that his managers have found a creative way to demote him, and his wife is leaving him in a bitter divorce settlement. Even then, he might be okay, but he returns from a frustrating experience trying to attend a funeral to discover that his beloved cat Goliath has gone missing, and it's the last straw. I imagine most people can relate to the feeling, if not the specific scenario; sometimes it's the little things that bring balance to an otherwise bad day. The problem is that Zellner (also the film's writer/director) has picked a target for his pent-up aggression, and I'm not sure I buy it.

At first, Zellner tries to deal, and his life doesn't get any worse, even if it doesn't get any better. He hates...Read the entire review

Note: This DVD contains both the rated and Unrated cuts of American Pie: Book of Love, but since the film never played in theaters, I'd be shocked if anyone actually bothered with the R-rated edit, which runs 2 minutes shorter than the Unrated version. I am one of those people who isn't going to bother with the R version: the following review corresponds to the Unrated cut alone.

As far as teen sex comedies go, American Pie Presents: The Book of Love is pretty mediocre stuff, providing a small smattering of chuckles primarily predicated on nostalgia, both for similar genre pictures of the past and for the other movies in the series. Still, having just recently rewatched the three originals and suffered through the subsequent Read the entire review

As it is with most things, the best intentions are often foiled by the unpredictability of day-to-day life. I try to stay knowledgeable about all kinds of film, and I make an effort to watch interesting foreign movies, but my knowledge of international cinema, especially anything made before 1998, is pretty limited. I had heard of Betty Blue before today; the film won a Golden Space Needle in 1992 at the Seattle International Film Festival, and when it screens in the city, which is close to where I live, it usually gets a bit of attention. A good portion of the movie's reputation comes from the film's sexuality, but having seen it now, I was more struck by how free the movie feels, completely unrestrained by the needs of plot or story.

The story, boiled down to its basic elements, are as follows: Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade) is a handyman in a small shanty town out in the middle of nowhere. Out ...Read the entire review

Sometimes I skim through the titles DVDTalk currently has for review and pass on certain titles because I feel uninformed. I mean, would I know about, say, 1940's Brazilian cinema? (Not that we have any.) Alas, sticking to my comfort zones every day doesn't broaden my horizons, so I recently selected The Art of Love as an attempt to venture into uncharted waters. Verdict? Sorry to all the devoted Walerian Borowczyk fans out there (I know you are many), but The Art of Love is a diasterously bizarre, cheap movie.

The plot...well, the events of the movie are framed within a Roman professor's lessons on the title subject, but I'd be hard prssed to tell you who was who, what they wanted, and why: this DVD of The Art of Love is only presented with a dub, which I generally avoid listening to when possible, and find hard to take seriously, especially on an older film like this. It's hard...Read the entire review

When I clicked on "Scare Tactics" - Season 3, Vol. 1 in the DVDTalk screener pool, I had a couple of pertinent questions: why haven't I heard of "Scare Tactics" before, and why is Season 3, Vol. 1 the only installment that appears to be on DVD? Having since watched the episodes included in this two-disc set, I know the answers. "Scare Tactics" is a corny, occasionally suspicious hidden camera prank show that works in fits and spurts, topped off with punny, awful, and occasionally outright bizarre jokes from host Tracy Morgan. It's an okay-to-mediocre, half-attention time-killer (a bizarre blend of effective and so-bad-it's-funny), but I can't imagine even telling a friend to watch it, much less an audience demanding to see this material more than once.

The premise: someone (usually a friend or family member) convinces "Scare Tactics" to target a victim of their choosing for some sort of elaborate, st...Read the entire review

Downloading Nancy is an interesting, provocative film that never arrives at much of a payoff. Even now, a few hours after watching it, the movie's ending is already fading from my memory, because it brings nothing further to the table. Director Johan Renck shows great skill in his creation of a cold, oppressive world that the film's title character, played to tortured perfection by Maria Bello, is unable to stand. Ultimately, though, it seems like the subject matter might have been better tackled in a shorter piece, as Downloading Nancy is ultimately more interested in presenting a situation rather than resolving it.

Bello's Nancy has survived molestation, but she's struggling with her marriage. Her husband, Albert (Rufus Sewell) is quietly distant, almost silently rejecting every effort she makes to get him to react to her in any way -- emotionally, sexually, physically. Albert is more...Read the entire review

It's hard to make a good teen movie. Everything is the end of the world to teenagers, and thus it's challenging to find material that doesn't trivialize or exaggerate the ups and downs of high school. It's even harder to make a good romantic comedy, especially one that has any spark of wit or originality. I watched the trailer for Amy Adams' new movie Leap Year today and was shocked to see an exact copy of a scene from The Proposal's trailer in it. Does nobody notice these things? Do they not care? I do. Finally, it's also hard to make a movie in the studio system, which can easily note a movie to death, polling focus groups and taking surveys, or even take the film away from the directors and cut it themselves, if the MPAA doesn't tear it to shreds first.

These three challenges are what makes 10 Things I Hate About You a minor mainstream miracle. I first saw...Read the entire review

Imagine a dartboard, where the board represents execution and the darts represent ideas. Some of the squares on the checkerboard-style dartboard are good executions and several of the darts are good ideas, and the rest are mediocre or tired if not quite clich s. Familiar Strangers was made with this game of darts; there are one or two good scenes where the right dart hits the right part of the dartboard, and the whole movie is friendly and well-meaning, but there are so many dramedies about dysfunctional families, and the screenplay by John Bell doesn't bring enough fresh ideas to the table to make it worth the effort.

Each member of the family fills in part of the story, from strongest to weakest. First we have Frank (Tom Bower), who ran the family business for years and fully expected his son Brian (Shawn Hatosy) to take over for him when it came time to retire. However, Brian ...Read the entire review

I've had many reactions to movies over the years, but Play Dead elicited a true rarity: complete and utter bewilderment. And I don't mean bewilderment as to what the plot was, who the characters were or things like the geography of scenes, what I mean is: who is this movie intended for? How did all of these actors read it and decide they wanted to do it? How did a co-writer/director (actor Jason Wiles, marking his sophomore directorial effort) with a completely nonsensical movie have the organizational and leadership skills to direct the final product? And most importantly, why did anyone buy it and offer to put it on DVD?

Wait, no, that's not true: I know why someone put it out on DVD. Someone -- in this case, Echo Bridge -- put it out on DVD because it stars the unbeatable combination of Chris Klein (who has already been in one of 2009's Read the entire review

I remember an issue of Entertainment Weekly several years ago that angrily denounced the word "escapism" to describe movies. Too often, they claimed, that people leaned on the term like a crutch when they felt critics were harsh towards glib entertainment, ultimately turning "escapism" into a synonym for "crappy". Their argument was that nobody would go to a fine restaurant, order the steak, and discover it wasn't very good, yet call it "escapism from good cooking", so moviegoers shouldn't do the same. Sherlock Holmes isn't crappy, and I wouldn't use "escapism" to describe it, but I think the things that are wrong with the movie lie around this word, and the definition it implies.

For instance, take the gigantic explosion seen in the trailer, with Watson (Jude Law) screaming "HOLMES!" seconds before fire erupts in the background. During the final film, director Guy Ritchie shows us this scene ...Read the entire review

As a film critic, I can't help but analyze most of the movies put in front of me. Obviously, the good films will occupy the entirety of my attention span, so logically, the worse the movie is, the more likely it is I'm mentally analyzing it as I'm watching it. Evergreen is one of those films that gives my movie reviewing mentality a sense of whiplash, switching on and off intermittently as I watch the film stumble through to the end with one hand while begging forgiveness with the other. At the end, I'm left with a conundrum: a film I know I sort of liked, filled with flaws I legitimately shouldn't ignore.

Kate (Cara Seymour) and Henri (Addie Land) are a mother and daughter making their way out to Washington state in order to move in with Kate's mother (Lynn Cohen). It is clearly not the first time the pair has moved with visions of a fresh start, and their host doesn't seem exactly happy to h...Read the entire review

I lived a sheltered childhood, so while many people my age grew up with action stars of the late 80's and early 90's like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jean-Claude Van Damme, I generally did not. As a twenty-something movie fan, I've filled in a few of these blanks, mainly the major ones like Die Hard, the Terminator series, but Steven Seagal is a guy I still haven't seen much of. Through no particularly evident fault of his own (mainly the normal march of time and subsequent aging), he's gone from action star to a bit of a punchline, but thanks to A&E's popular "Lawman", and with the help of Robert Rodriguez's Machete in 2010, we may be living once again in a world of Seagal. Whether people are looking forward to that or not is one thing, but in the meantime, those that are can check out The Keeper, an unoriginal but agreeable B-action picture.

While fighting over the pos...Read the entire review

You should know upfront that this is not a love story, and you should also know that I was ultimately uncharmed by (500) Days of Summer, a rocky rehash of better romantic comedies (namely the wonderful When Harry Met Sally) with the occasional spurt of directorial flair here and there, which feel, despite intermittent wit and strong execution, like desperate attempts to cover up the film's shortcomings in the originality department. Maybe it's just a matter of personal taste: every year, I find myself disagreeing with general public's choice in the "mainstream quirk" Oscar lotto (i.e. Juno and Little Miss Sunshine), and this is no different, another audience-pandering, calculated effort on Fox Searchlight's part to trick the viewer into thinking they're watching a movie much cleverer than it actually is.

Take the title, for instance: (500) Days of Summer. The film t...Read the entire review

It's odd. I saw director Todd Phillips' Old School when it came out back in 2003 (one of the first R-rated movies I remember seeing in theaters), and, like most people, I thought it was pretty funny. I've also seen Road Trip once, long ago, although I'll be damned if I remember any of it, and I watched Starsky & Hutch early one morning at a friend's house while I was waiting for other people to wake up and thought it was one of the worst movies of 2004. I like Ed Helms on "The Office" and have enjoyed some of his bit parts in other comedies, I've wondered how Bradley Cooper feels going from underground comedies like Wet Hot American Summer to placating romantic comedy dreck like He's Just Not That Into You, and I constantly heard about how funny Zach Galifianakis was without ever being quite motivated to check him out. If you'd asked me at the beginning of 2009, I...Read the entire review

I found the original Ice Age to be a reasonably funny little movie when I saw it in theaters back in 2002, even if it borrowed its central "missing child" plotline from Pixar's superior Monsters, Inc. It took me until now to see the sequel, subtitled The Meltdown, but I thought that it too was enjoyable and clever enough, if nothing I would have bothered to watch were I not reviewing the third film. Sadly, the trilogy goes out on a flat note thanks to this mostly obligatory entry into the series, which loses the character interaction that makes the first two interesting in favor of dull-as-dirt humor that failed to rustle up any chuckles on my end. Surprisingly, it was one of 2009's most profitable films, but I'm hoping the animation team at Blue Sky lets the trilogy be and moves on to greener pastures.

In Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Manny (voice of Ray Romano), Ellie (voice of...Read the entire review

Note: I was slightly surprised to see that The Princess and the Frog wasn't rated PG as I had thought. In the past, I've impressed upon parents to give a little more leeway with kids seeing movies claimed to be "scary" (i.e. Where the Wild Things Are), and it's still true. However, while Princess and the Frog is certainly family-friendly (I suppose I don't see why it wouldn't be a G, just that I thought it was rated PG), I imagine parents should be prepared to cover the youngest kids' eyes a few times during the voodoo sequences, which can be a bit menacing.

I have not seen a traditionally animated Disney film in years. I don't know how many, but it's been quite a long time. However, I can say that I have not seen an animated feature, traditional or otherwise, produced in-house at Disney in theaters for nearly a decade (that being The E...Read the entire review

I saw a trailer for Infestation on YouTube in early 2009 when the movie seemed to be destined for theaters. Seven months later, I finally caught a glimpse of the movie's fate in a promo on the SyFy channel announcing its TV premiere, and then yet one more month later in a Fry's Electronics, where I spied the DVD on the shelf. A message to editor John later and here it is, and I suppose it was worth the wait. I have to admit that I'm biased towards this kind of movie: creatures getting splattered in a mish-mash of comedy and sci-fi or horror (preferrably, if you really want to boil it down, with a schlub in an increasingly battered suit as the hero), so perhaps that affected (or infected) my enjoyment, but this is a perfectly pleasant time-waster.

In the case of Infestation, the schlubby suit-wearer is a character named Cooper, played by Chris Marquette. In 2004 and 2005 I saw Mar...Read the entire review

When I bought The Best of "The Colbert Report" from Best Buy several years back, it came with an exclusive bonus disc of Colbert's "Tek Jansen" cartoons, which star Colbert as a buff superhero. It's a nice bonus: fans will appreciate it, and it seems unlikely to be released elsewhere. Before Jansen, however, there was "Pale Force", a recurring series of gag shorts on "The Late Show With Conan O'Brien". I love Conan O'Brien, but Colbert had the right idea: "Pale Force" probably wouldn't earn a complete spin in the DVD player if it were free, much less if fans have to pony up for it.

Comedian Jim Gaffigan stars in the series as both Pale Man and "Conan O'Brien". The pair fight crime using their extraordinary paleness, primarily that caused by The Lady Bronze (supposedly voiced by Eartha Kitt, but also voiced by Gaffigan). The result is a one-note joke done no favors when presented as a single-si...Read the entire review

A year or two ago, my friend and I submitted a screenplay to the Sundance Screenwriters Lab. We didn't get in, but scanning the list of competitors, it was clear that the story of immigrants coming to America looking for the land of opportunity and finding various struggles, both personal and otherwise, was a popular topic to say the least. In the past, I haven't had much personal interest in seeing these stories, and it's this willful ignorance that puts me in a strange position to talk about Paraiso Travel. The film, by Simon Brand, is definitely a good movie, featuring fine direction and even a few breakout performances, but having not seen any movies with similar stories, I have no idea how well it stacks up against other movies about the same subjects.

Aldemar Correa plays Marlon, a young Colombian man finishing up high school. Marlon is on his way to college, thanks to the efforts of his...Read the entire review

Recently, I pulled American Virgin and Hooking Up out of the DVDTalk screener pool, expecting them both to be subpar gross-out comedies with overacting and awful jokes. I was wrong: American Virgin was a slightly-better-than-mediocre comedy with some okay performances, and Hooking Up is so inept it transcends "good" and "bad". Most movies get divided off into positive and negative because there are elements to critique, but Hooking Up barely knows how to frame a shot or stage a joke, much less embed several of them in a legitimate story. Imagine something with the basic cinematography, sound quality and framing of a YouTube short that just exists for an hour and a half, and you have this movie.

For instance, Hooking Up doesn't introduce its characters so much as describe them. After an opening scene that actually looks like something that belongs in a movie, ...Read the entire review

As far as movie reviews are concerned, it's not the really bad or really good movies that are tough to write about, it's the the ones that are just okay, that don't really provide the writer with enough to critique in a five-paragraph review. Usually, these films resulting in hours of procrastinating and debate in front of a depressingly blank screen. Recently, I've run into a few of these kinds of movies, and while I started the week focused on reviews, putting one up on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, on Wednesday I hit a wall. Having unsuccessfully attempted to trudge my way through a different title for a couple of days, I threw on Spread just to get it going while I was hitting the sack and ended up watching the entire movie. At first, there a lot of elements stacked against the film: a dull-sounding story, a smarmy opening, and yet another attempt by star Ashton Kutcher to legitimize himself a...Read the entire review