The Smackdown People like the idea of the dead communicating with the living. It’s comforting (if borderline creepy) to imagine that our departed are somehow lingering, intact-looking ghosts sticking around until they’re finished with their […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: With this Smackdown first posted in May 2008, we begin a series of “Classic Smack” reviews that deal with super-heroes from comic book origins. There’s a poll at the end of the review […]
With the 2008 election showing signs of being as close as the 2000 and 2004 near-ties, Sunday night’s Emmy success for “Recount” seems like a perfect moment to re-visit our Smackdown between that film and […]
The Smackdown Audiences are primed for a good laugh because economic instability and the upcoming elections just aren’t doing it. Will we get it with the release of “Ghost Town?” This comedy of the dead […]
The Smackdown Joel and Ethan Coen’s “Burn After Reading” opened as a modest box office leader last weekend. Fresh from their large haul of Academy Awards (for “No Country For Old Men”) their bleak and […]
The Smackdown It’s been ten years next week that audiences got their first look at “American Beauty,” the film with its dark vision of Americana that went on to win our highest honor in film. […]
The Smackdown After fifteen years in development, TV comedy queen Diane English (“Murphy Brown”) has finally completed her Magnum Opus: a star-spangled remake of 1939’s “The Women.” Sixty-nine years after that classic film’s original release, […]
The Smackdown We’ve seen plenty of Robert De Niro and Al Pacino over the years, although not on the same screen for nearly 13 years until the weekend release of “Righteous Kill.” Was it worth the […]
The Smackdown With 2008’s Bottle Shock and 2004’s indie darling Sideways, we have two films that put their respective audiences smack into the middle of the California wine growing scene. One is more about making […]
Ready for his Close-Up? Honestly, we try not to get too political over here at Movie Smackdown! After all, we have our work cut out for us with our film-on-film comparisons without taking sides in […]
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