In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther discuss current releases African Cats, Jane Eyre, Of Gods and Men, Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family and Water for Elephants.
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Elitist Bastards: You know what happens to nosy reviewers? Huh?
In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther discuss current releases Atlas Shrugged, Certified Copy, Rio, Scream 4, Super and Win Win. They also discuss Dead Alive (this week’s Thursday Horror Picture Show) and Chinatown (next week’s Asheville Film Society screening), as well as upcoming releases Jane Eyre, Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family, Water for Elephants and African Cats.
Cranky Hanke’s Weekly Reeler April 20-26: Super Jane Eyre’s Big Happy Elephant
Well, the field’s a little less crowded this week with two art titles—Jane Eyre (Carolina and Fine Arts) and Super (Carolina)—and two mainstream ones—Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family (everywhere but Carmike) and Water for Elephants (everywhere but Beaucatcher).
Elitist Bastards: Bastards from Mars
In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther discuss current releases Arthur, Hanna, Soul Surfer, Your Highness and The Conspirator.
Cranky Hanke’s Weekly Reeler April 13-19: Win Win with Certified Copy of The Conspirator
It’s a busy and possibly—in some cases at least—worthwhile weekend at the movies. We have two mainstream titles—Scream 4 and Rio—three art titles—Certified Copy (Carolina), The Conspirator (Carolina), and Win Win (Fine Arts)—one hard-to-classify title—Atlas Shrugged. If nothing else it’s diverse.
Elitist Bastards: Shall I wash your Hanke, sir?
In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther discuss current releases Source Code, Insidious and Hop. The duo also talk about next week’s Asheville Film Society screening, Blonde Venus, and upcoming releases Arthur, Hanna, Soul Surfer and Your Highness. And just to cap it off, the critics also give us a brief preview of this weekend’s ActionFest film festival.
Cranky Hanke’s Weekly Reeler Apr. 6-12: Soul Surfing with Arthur, Hanna, and ActionFest
Frankly to me, this week’s most notable cinematic event is ActionFest, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t other movies coming our way this week—four-and-a-half of them, in fact. Last week we got lucky—well, Hop to one side—but I’d be lying if I said I was expecting that kind of luck this week.
Elitist Bastards: I Saw the Diary of a Sucker Punch
In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther discuss current releases Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, Sucker Punch and I Saw the Devil.
Cranky Hanke’s Weekly Reeler March 30-April 5: I Saw the Devil’s Insidious Source Code
An interesting movie weekend looms. We get two very different art titles—Even the Rain at the Fine Arts and I Saw the Devil at The Carolina—and three mainstream wide releases—Hop, Insidious, Source Code. You don’t often get the devil and the Easter Bunny in the same week—at least I don’t.
Elitist Bastards: The Mystery of the Wax Bastards
In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther discuss current releases Limitless, The Lincoln Lawyer, Paul, Somewhere and Today’s Special.
Hey, Hanke: Some of us are happy with “crappy”!
I actually felt hurt when I read Mr. Hanke's review of the recently released Gnomeo & Juliet [“Cranky Hanke,” Feb. 16 Xpress]. I took my children, ages 12 and 5, to see the film. The older one, a fan of Shakespeare, was skeptical. But, being young and mainly happy (read: easily pleased by a movie […]
Elitist Bastards: Lock them up … in the Elephant!
In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther talk about current releases Battle: Los Angeles, Cedar Rapids, Mars Needs Moms and Red Riding Hood.
Cranky Hanke’s Weekly Reeler March 16-22: Last week’s promise made good, plus aliens and lawyers
Last week turned out to be pretty grim indeed. At least this week I know there’s one bright spot, since Cedar Rapids—originally supposed to open last Friday—comes to The Carolina and the Fine Arts this Friday. Also up are the mainstream titles Limitless, The Lincoln Lawyer and Paul. These at least are potentially better than the last week’s rather unfortunate crop.
Cranky Hanke cracked me up
Ken Hanke’s quote in his review of I Am Number Four [“Cranky Hanke,” Feb. 23 Xpress] about Dianna Agron, that the actress was "an apparent graduate of the Corey Haim mouth-breathing school of acting" truly amused me. I'm a photographer from the East Coast film industry and was shooting in Wilmington, N.C., on Corey's film […]
The Oscars, Streaming Video, and a Couple of Elitist Bastards
Well, the 83rd Academy Awards are behind us and thank God for that. Also behind is the ill-advised, experimental live streaming—or maybe that’s steaming—video feed that found Justin Souther and me pretty much chained to one spot for five hours to comment on the show as it proceeded. I am even more grateful that that’s over.