Articles Written by Brian Holcomb
The Backwoods (2006) Movie Review
John Boorman’s “Deliverance” gave birth to a new subgenre of films featuring middle class white men who desire the stoicism of life in the wild and of a more direct conflict for survival outside of the office cubicles and golf courses. It also established the genre’s archetypal characters: the posturing weekend warrior outdoorsman who talks [...]
April 20th, 2008 | Brian Holcomb | 10 comments | Read MoreStreet Kings (2008) Movie Review
Movies like “Street Kings” are sitting ducks in a shooting range for film critics who laugh all through the movie only to condemn it for being so damn entertaining. Most movies are so sedated by studio interference, creative indifference, or artless craft that when a movie comes along with style and a real no prisoners [...]
April 20th, 2008 | Brian Holcomb | 0 comments | Read MoreSweeney Todd (2007) Movie Review
Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, and Helena Bonham-Carter have made so many films together that they’re starting to resemble each other. Depp has now made 6 films with Burton and it always seems as though he’s playing some hyper-real and slightly paler version of the ghostly director. As for Bonham-Carter, this is either her fourth or [...]
January 9th, 2008 | Brian Holcomb | 3 comments | Read MoreHalloween (2007) Movie Review
Tom Stoppard once wrote a one act play called “The Fifteen Minute Hamlet” which was, as you can probably guess, a pretty incoherent version of “Hamlet” performed in 15 minutes. You can imagine that much would have to be left out and that what was once dramatic and tragic would be renderned pointless and hilarious. [...]
September 8th, 2007 | Brian Holcomb | 2 comments | Read MoreThe Invasion (2007) Movie Review
This has to be the lamest alien invasion movie since the killer tomatoes attacked. I knew going in about the production troubles and the massive reshoots ordered by the studio honchos to ‘fix’ the film, but I thought I could give it a fair shake anyway. I mean, it’s got Nicole Kidman, who usually only [...]
August 24th, 2007 | Brian Holcomb | 1 comment | Read MoreSunshine (2007) Movie Review
It’s 50 years from now and once again mankind faces extinction. Not from a meteoric Armageddon, or the inconvenient truth about the environment, but from the death of the sun itself. A second ice age threatens to end life as we know it and so mankind looks to its last hope for survival, a spacecraft [...]
August 12th, 2007 | Brian Holcomb | 0 comments | Read MoreRescue Dawn (2006) Movie Review
Please do not confuse “Rescue Dawn” with a mid-80s Cannon Group production of a Chuck Norris film. This isn’t the movie where Chuck emerges from a river firing a water logged AK-47 in super slow motion. Nor is it the one where soulman C. Thomas Howell models for I. Goldberg and yells out, “Wolverines!” Sorry, [...]
July 1st, 2007 | Brian Holcomb | 0 comments | Read MoreHostel: Part II (2007) Movie Review
Eli Roth has the touch of the sophomore prankster. The lasting effect of all three of his films is a certain kind of Grand Guignol “Punk’D”, in which the “mark” is not only embarrassed, he’s also cut to pieces. You half expect Roth to pop up just as a character is having his face sliced [...]
June 12th, 2007 | Brian Holcomb | 2 comments | Read MoreBlack Book (2006) Movie Review
Paul Verhoeven is a filmmaker who takes no prisoners. He wants nothing more than to fracture reality through his particularly pulpy cinematic lens and to project this grotesque image in front of as many spectators as possible. He makes no excuses for his excesses and this is one of the reasons why he has been [...]
June 10th, 2007 | Brian Holcomb | 0 comments | Read MoreGrindhouse (2007) Movie Review #2
Had “Grindhouse” been made by some up and coming neophyte filmmaker it would’ve been cut to shreds by the critical establishment. But the critical blank check given to Robert Rodriguez, and especially Quentin Tarantino is cashed in at this grindhouse, which is a very mediocre attempt to play with exploitation fire without getting burned. The [...]
April 9th, 2007 | Brian Holcomb | 0 comments | Read More
Excellent - ANOTHER Street Fighter movie! ha ha ha Beware that large pool of sarcasm I just dropped. 
this is crap man, what happened to the sexy blue outfit. the hair and the kick as stance with the ...
Id think that it can still work, im upset that keira wont come in but not bothered bout will lol ...
none of them are how i pictured...except for laurent, i guess. 
