F This Movie! - Super 8

 

Patrick and JB talk monsters, models and J.J. Abrams' Super 8, plus receive a special surprise visit from the supervillain known only as THE QUIBBLER.

Watchin' Trailerz with Doug (Week of June 6)

I had this whole big rant about disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) all ready to go for this week's introduction. It was funny and violent and the soundtrack kicked fucking ass. You would've loved it -- I swear. But then I watched the following three trailers (jump below). Let me warn all of you regular readers up front: this is, quite possibly, the worst batch of previews I've yet featured in this dinky column. Never before have I been so disheartened, disgusted and just plain confused. They SUCK. And they're insulting to everyone, not just to diehard cinephiles (a word Patrick loves). THAT BEING SAID, please watch, read and ... enjoy(?).

F This Movie! - The Last Airbender

By listener request, Patrick and Alex take on M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender and hate their lives.

F These Movies We Shouldn't Like But Do

We at F This Movie! are known netwide (that's internet-wide, which I assure you is a thing) for having impeccable, unassailably cool taste. Even the best among us are not infallible, though, and today's list is proof of that.

F This Movie! - 12 Monkeys

Patrick and JB have come from the future to let all the animals out of their cages.

Watchin' Trailerz with Doug (Week of May 30)

I caught a little Starship Troopers on Starz before I went to bed the other night. Man, what a great movie. A few years after first seeing it, Patrick and I were so desperate to "discover" another worthy, kick-ass, under-the-radar space opera, that we actually saw the VERY FIRST SHOWING of Battlefield Earth in the theater the Friday it came out. What a nightmare! Suffice it to say (which is an expression I hate), NOTHING has compared to watching Starship Troopers for the first time 14 years ago. THE REASON I BRING THIS UP: Amy Adams has just signed on to Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, which is a Scientology-inspired drama. So, after years of limbo, one of our favorite directors is finally getting to make another movie! Yay! F Battlefield Earth!

Director Essentials: Tim Burton

by Patrick Bromley

Today's entry in the ongoing Director Essentials series focuses on the career of Tim Burton, who clearly died sometime around the turn of the century and was replaced by a soulless hack Tim Burton imitator. Pile your hair up on your head, crank the Danny Elfman dark carnival and misunderstand with me.