Drinking Buddies
Of Love and Bore Starring: Oliva Wilde, Jake Johnson Review written by Robert D. Patrick Jeremiah Johnson beards, more flannel than Kim Deal’s closet, and ornate tap handles with everything from wooden whales to serpentine snakes emblazoned on them. The craft beer industry admonishes the sud-soaked mega-marketing of macro brews, and instead revels in the bitterness of hops, happiness and irascible pride. While the swell of rolled up...
The Hunt
Community Ostracizes Sheepish Man Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen Review written by Robert D. Patrick Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen’s square jaw and esoteric glare provide the perfect bone structure for playing amoral, unsettling figures with blood stamped fingers. The Copenhagen born thespian has played heavies in movies like Casino Royale and Pusher. In one of the actor’s best films, Valhalla Rising, he plays a...
The World’s End
Of Suds and Sods Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost Review written by Robert D. Patrick The World’s End is about five raucous, syllable bending Brits whom white knuckle barley pops with feverish gusto (most of that is accurate). The old pals reunite, after absconding from one another twenty years earlier, to take on a fanged beast of a pub crawl that they failed to slay in their youth. The mad capped league of friends, headed by...
Kick-Ass 2
Utopian Toilet Humor Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloe Grace Moretz Review written by Tom Bevis As far as books go, “Kick-Ass” is special to me. Not because it’s particularly that great or because I love it so much or anything, but because it’s one of the few Mark Millar books I actually liked. It’s not particularly good (you can read my thoughts on the original comic book and the first film) but it’s effective. In...
The Spectacular Now
The Basically Okay Whatever Starring: Miles Teller, Shailene Woodley Review written by Robert D. Patrick Movies about teens are usually shrink wrapped in sleazy, salacious, glass cracking abandon. At parties, bras zip through the air like volleys of arrows. Livers are brined because guttural howls must be had. And much like Sisyphus’ boulder, kegs are rolled back and fourth forever – or at least until the weekend ends. The other...
Elysium
Paradise Lost; Subsequently Found By Matt Damon Starring: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster Review written by Andrew Younger In dystopian storytelling, the protagonist often serves as little more than an avatar for the audience in order to explore some exaggerated negative feature of civilization. In order to be an effective audience surrogate, whether it is Winston Smith or Bernard Marx or Josef K., the dystopian protagonist only needs to...
The Canyons
The Canyawns Starring: James Deen, Lindsay Lohan Review written by Robert D. Patrick The fang baring, salacious, psychosexual bloodletting of Bret Easton Ellis’ literary works are lumbar straining. His worlds are urban marshes of depravity and, more often than not, a decalogue of amoral drum rolls. The author’s catalog of works, beginning with his heralded debut, Less Than Zero, have all contained, in some form or another,...
