SDCC 2011: An Early Evening with Kevin Smith (Hall H) (VIDEO)

Wrapping up Saturday in Hall H, as per usual, was Con-noisseur Kevin Smith, taking questions on Red State, Hit Somebody, and his impending retirement from filmmaking. I recorded the presentation, which runs 2+ hours, and have posted it in eight parts below… [Click here to watch the video]

Cop Out – 1 1/2 Buckets

The worst kind of film parody is one that takes a bad set of movies for its subjects and, rather than perceptively spoofing their pathetic qualities, becomes so enamored with them that it ends up just as bad a movie itself. Such is the case with Cop Out, which is actually less a parody of than [...]

BucketCast Rebooted : Episode 1 : 2.28.2010

On the inaugural BucketCast, Danny and Michael review the new theatrical releases Cop Out and The Crazies, as well as Black Dynamite, new on DVD. They also talk about the problems of local cinema chain UltraStar and AMC Theatres’ threatened boycott on Alice in Wonderland. Download the episode here or get it on iTunes.

SDCC 2008: Day Two

Comic-Con may have officially ended ended this afternoon, but coverage is just heating up here at the Bucket ‘Blog. Sorry, folks, for not being able to post as quickly as many of you had hoped during the event, but I was so active for the whole thing that any writing would’ve cut into what was already little sleeptime. (I was able to get a solid eight hours last night, and I crashed… hard.) [Read more]

Southland Tales – 2 Buckets

There are many things wrong with Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales, but underneath all of its flashy excess, one realizes the true reason why the movie fails: it is just another ridiculous, uninformed cinematic assault on the Bush Administration. Like Donnie Darko (Kelly’s previous feature) on steroids, the movie talks in circles and engages in mindless tomfoolery at [...]