Burn After Reading – 1 Bucket

There are those who have never quite been on Joel and Ethan Coen’s wavelength in terms of comedy, but I’m not in that group. In fact, I’m as big a Coen Brothers fan as anybody; I even dug their critically-lambasted Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers. But I flat-out didn’t get why 95 percent of the material in [...]

Postal – Zero Buckets

Before watching Postal, the latest video-game adaptation (and first “English-language comedy”) from widely-detested German filmmaker Uwe Boll, I shunned all efforts made to illegitimate Boll’s career. The fact that said efforts stemmed merely from resentment towards the lack of artistic competence displayed by Boll’s works struck me as entirely excessive. When friends tried to get me [...]

Rendition – 1 1/2 Buckets

“The thing that gets under my skin most about George W. [Bush] is his intention to install fear in people […] this government is all about terror alerts and scaring us at airports. We’re changing the Constitution out of fear. We spend all our time looking up each other’s dresses. Fear’s the only issue the [...]