Season of the Witch – 2 1/2 Buckets

Watching Season of the Witch, one wonders how it ever got green-lit in the first place. With a reported $40 million budget on the line, one can only assume that the film’s existence is either the product either of a personal favor or a studio head’s disturbed belief that the American public’s stupidity is bottomless. [...]

The Bank Job – 2 1/2 Buckets

The Bank Job is equally reprehensible for being a mess as it is respectable for being ambitious. The movie, retelling a “true story” in an amped-up fashion, is a pastiche of everything we’ve ever seen before in heist pictures and a few things that we haven’t. In what could’ve been a simple tale about robbing [...]