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TBTS Reviews: The Twilight Saga, Part 4: Breaking Dawn, Part 1
This is part 4 of a joint mini-review series featuring myself and fellow Tweedie Esquirette. Check out our reviews of Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse. Paulthegeek: Surprisingly little happens for most...
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TBTS Reviews: The Twilight Saga, Part 5: Breaking Dawn Part 2
And here it is, the day we’ve all been waiting for: the release of Breaking Dawn Part 2, the fifth and final Twilight film. Fellow Tweedster PaultheGeek and I have been watching and reviewing all the...
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In Which a Heterosexual Male Enjoys “Magic Mike”
Best Buy. Black Friday. Evening. The store… sedate. The pickings… slim. But oh! Blu-rays for $13! The wife wants a copy of Magic Mike. (“Look honey! Extras include extended dance sequences!” Great…) We...
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TBTS Reviews: Skyfall
Nice to see you again, Commander Bond. I should begin this review by saying that I’m nothing if not a huge James-Bond-head. By that, I mean that I was indoctrinated into Albert Broccoli’s seminal...
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TBTS Reviews: Anna Karenina
Never have I been so excited going into the theater, and so disappointed leaving it, than I was tonight when I saw Anna Karenina. The film, based on the classic by Tolstoy, had the perfect director,...
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Spitting in the Ocean: Django Unchained Considered
Please note: Spoilers Throughout Toward the end of Quentin Tarantino’s newest, Django Unchained, a genre-mixing film set in the antebellum South and featuring a former slave who becomes a bounty hunter...
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TBTS Reviews: Side Effects
Good ol’ Steven Soderbergh. Upon review of his directorial work, it occurs to me that I’ve actually consistently liked his movies. I’m particularly fond of his late-90s/early-2000s output. Movies like...
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Someone is Wrong on the Internet: The Onion…and Most of its Critics
Ed. Note: In this column, we put aside our deep reservations against becoming argumentative blowhards and answer the moral obligation to call shenanigans when some other blowhard is spouting...
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TBTS Fashionably Late Review: Never Let Me Go
(Ed. note: The Fashionably Late Review is a critique of a film released in the last two years — with spoilers, so it can be appropriately reviewed in its entirety. So be warned. If you really wanted to...
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The Fashionably Late Review: The Adventures of Tintin
(Ed. note: The Fashionably Late Review is a critique of a film released in the last two years — with spoilers, so it can be appropriately reviewed in its entirety. So be warned. If you really wanted to...
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The TBTS Movie Character Hall of Fame: Vic Fontaine
Ladies and Gentlemen, we’re very honored you could join us today; for today, we induct another member into a very prestigious Hall of Fame: the TBTS Movie Character Hall of Fame. There are many movies,...
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In Which We Confess Our Sins and Engage in Some Light Blasphemy
Bless me, readers, for I have sinned… I hate the Rolling Stones. Hate them. Flames… Flames on the side of my face… I love Quentin Tarantino movies but I hate Quentin Tarantino. I genuinely like all...
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TBTS Movie Character Hall of Fame: Christine Jesperson
In the movie Me and You and Everyone We Know, Christine Jesperson is on a quest, whether she would describe it that way or not. She finds and even sometimes creates the beauty that can emerge from...
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TBTS Top Five Summer Movies I’m Excited About in 2013
Lots of goodies in the pipe for moviegoers this summer. Let me count the ways… Iron Man 3 Oh, please. You know you’re going to see this. Don’t even front. The first one was great. The second… okay,...
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TBTS Reviews: Mud
I went into this movie almost completely blind, which I almost never do. I don’t do well with movies that I know absolutely nothing about. I need a basic structure, an outline, something to help me...
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TBTS Reviews: Anna Karenina
Never have I been so excited going into the theater, and so disappointed leaving it, than I was tonight when I saw Anna Karenina. The film, based on the classic by Tolstoy, had the perfect director,...
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