Come On... Quit Toying Around
David Frank has something to say. Care to disagree? Darwin had it wrong. We're not evolving as a species. Visit a Wal-Mart, listen to a Sarah Palin speech, or watch Ben Lyons on "At the Movies" and...
View ArticleWelcome to the Dawn of Obamatainment
Can you feel it? Don't mind the frightening wolves howling outside your door. Just be happy you have a door, even if it's just a flap on your cardboard shack. The world's imploding and we're all hobos...
View ArticleWhere in the World is 'The Road'?
"It essentially comes down to this: if The Road sucks or distributor Dimension Films tosses the movie into a time capsule for release in the next decade... I’m going to have to carefully reconsider my...
View ArticleStay Inside and Watch More TV
David Frank knows more than you. Care to disagree? Some folks will say you shouldn't watch TV. It's bad for yah. Nothing but an idiot box. It'll soften your brain and whet Alec Baldwin's appetite. And...
View ArticleIn Ebert I Trust
David Frank knows more than you. Care to disagree? Roger Ebert handed Knowing four stars, and in doing so -- and being in the minority -- some continue to say he's tossing out four stars these days...
View ArticleMovies to Mark Your Life By
David Frank shares a piece of himself in digital ink... Some mark their lives by a diary or the cars or pets they owned. Others use the good ol' calendar. I mark mine by movies. Yeah, it's a little...
View ArticleTop Ten Apocalyptic/Post-Apocalyptic Films
Top Ten Apocalyptic/Post-Apocalyptic Films It seems Hollywood's infatuation with the end of the world has found its place in 2009 with releases such as Knowing this past March and upcoming releases...
View ArticleThe Campaign for Change and 'District 9' is My Candidate
David Frank shares a piece of himself in digital ink... Last year fanboys around the world were offered up the tasty chew toy that was The Dark Knight and they slobbered all over it and then some....
View ArticleTop 10 Great Movie Deaths
Photo: Universal Studios Home Entertainment Top 10 Great Movie Deaths Movies love to kill people, and actors love to die (preferably slowly and with a great close-up). Yet, more often than not, film...
View ArticleCrowning 'Three Kings' Ten Years Later
Ten years have passed since David O. Russell delivered his brazen, wildly kinetic Gulf War Part 1 film Three Kings. There was a great many war movies before Three Kings and a great many since, but no...
View ArticleTop Ten Working American Directors
Top Ten Working American Directors A list like this is tricky to the point of madness. However, I'm going to save you the trouble by saying it right here, right now: Most of the choices on this list...
View ArticleDespite the Rules We're Talking 'Fight Club' Ten Years Later
I know the whole "I was into it before everyone else was" attitude is a hipster-douche move, but I don't care. I saw Fight Club opening night, because I anticipated it more than any other film of 1999...
View ArticleUpdates from Robert Rodriguez's Parking Lot
Last week I spent a day at Robert Rodriguez's Troublemaker Studios loitering around the parking lot, interviewing some actors on that lot, and raiding the catering van for cookies. You can probably...
View ArticleMendes and Bond Make a Potent Martini
Daniel Craig as James Bond Photo: Columbia Pictures Until Casino Royale arrived and atomized the stale dregs from the Jame Bond formula, I had nothing nice to say about the gatekeepers of the...
View ArticleYou Want a Decade List? David Picks Seven Favorites
Countless people have been pimping their Best Films of the Decade lists for so long now it feels like I read the first one when Al Gore still had a shot at the presidency. Yet, I'm more cautious than...
View ArticleJoin the 'Daybreakers' Cult... While You Can
We all have our personal little movie gems, those mostly forgotten films you love to pass on to your friends, hoping they'll dig them too. Those movies you love to love and love even more knowing that...
View ArticleSeason Six Approaches and You Can Keep Me 'Lost'
The final season of "Lost" arrives, and we're promised answers by the minute. No. Nuke that. Rewind. We demand answers by the minute. "Lost" has only churned out 9 million unanswered riddles over the...
View ArticleGive 'The Hunted' a Fighting Chance
Benicio del Toro and Tommy Lee Jones in The Hunted Photo: Paramount Pictures NOTE: The video in this post spoils a portion of the ending of The Hunted. We finally get to see Bencio Del Toro go primal...
View ArticleTop Ten Films of Martin Scorsese
Top Ten Martin Scorsese Films I hate to pull out this cliche, but, yes, Martin Scorsese is a living legend. He's the rare filmmaker of such stature that almost all actors dream of working with him...
View ArticleLook, Look... My Town is In a Movie!
The other day while wasting my life watching nothing good on television I caught a commercial for The Crazies remake. It began with fuzzy footage of a news anchor stating something really ominous....
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