Elitist Bastards: Review Angry in 2.5D

In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther review: Hall Pass, Casino Jack, Rabbit Hole and Drive Angry 3D. The Bastards also discuss The Old Dark House (1932), this week’s Thursday Horror Picture Show, and Casino Royale (1966), next week’s Asheville Film Society screening. The duo also consider the potential merits of upcoming releases The Adjustment Bureau, Beastly, Rango and Take Me Home Tonight.

Elitist Bastards: Who needs Big Mommas when you have normal-sized Bastards?


In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther review: Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, Unknown and I Am Number Four. The Bastards also discuss Brian De Palma’s iconic horror film Carrie (this week’s Thursday Horror Picture Show) and the Josef von Sternberg classic Shanghai Express (next week’s Asheville Film Society screening). And just to whet your appetite for next week’s episode, they even talk a little about forthcoming flicks Drive Angry 3D and Hall Pass.

Elitist Bastards: The Hanke’s Tomb


In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther review: The Eagle, Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, Just Go with It, Company Men, Barney’s Version, Gnomeo & Juliet and The Illusionist. They also chat about The Mummy’s Hand (1940) and The Mummy’s Tomb (1942)—this week’s Thursday Horror Picture Show—and The Hours (2002)—this week’s Asheville Film Society screening. And to top off the tank, they guess about the quality of Unknown, I Am Number Four and Big Mommas: Like Father Like Son.

Elitist Bastards: From Dusk Till Bieber


In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther talk about current releases The Roommate and Sanctum, as well as giving a preview of The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2011. They also discuss the early Robert Rodriguez schlock-horror flick From Dusk Till Dawn (this week’s Thursday Horror Picture Show) and the classic Charlie Chaplin film City Lights (next week’s Asheville Film Society screening). And just to keep themselves limber, they also chat about upcoming releases The Illusionist, The Eagle, Just Go with It and Gnomeo & Juliet before working themselves into an infuriated froth over the mere existence of Justin Bieber: Never Say Never.

Elitist Bastards: Night of the Bastards

In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther discuss current and upcoming releases Another Year, Biutiful, The Rite and The Mechanic. They also weigh the merits of David Cronenberg’s horror film The Brood (this week’s Thursday Horror Picture Show) and heavily praise Charles Laughton’s sole directorial work The Night of the Hunter (next week’s Asheville Film Society screening). And just to top off the tank of movie chatter, they also speculate about the quality of soon-to-be-released flicks Sanctum and The Roommate.

Elitist Bastards: The Way Back to Tiny Blue Valenties, No Strings Attached

In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther discuss: Blue Valentine, Tiny Furniture, No Strings Attached and The Way Back, A Nightmare On Elm Street (this week’s Thursday Horror Picture Show), Unfaithfully Yours (next week’s Asheville Film Society screening) and Black Death (a special, free pre-festival screening for this year’s ActionFest).

Elitist Bastards: Off-the-hook good movie reviews

In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther review newly released films The Green Hornet and The Dilemma. They also chat about classic horror flicks The Devil Commands and The Return of the Vampire (this week’s Thursday Horror Picture Show double feature) and the often-overlooked screwball comedy First Love (this week’s Asheville Film Society screening), and speculate about the quality of this week’s upcoming releases The Way Back and No Strings Attached.

Elitist Bastards: The knee-trembling best and worst of 2010

In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther hash out their lists of the top ten best and worst films of 2010. The canny duo of cinematic criticism then briefly discuss Shrunken Heads (this week’s Thursday Horror Picture Show) and Unfaithfully Yours (next week’s Asheville Film Society screening). And just to brighten the new year, they very briefly speculate on the quality of this week’s opening films Country Strong and Season of the Witch.

Elitist Bastards: I’m Dreaming Of A Black Christmas

In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther discuss current releases Tron: Legacy, The King’s Speech, I Love You Phillip Morris, True Grit, Yogi Bear and How Do You Know. They also talk about Black Christmas (this week’s Thursday Horror Picture Show) and The Thin Man (next week’s Asheville Film Society screening), as well as soon-to-open films Little Fockers and Gulliver’s Travels.

Elitist Bastards: A Phantasm At The Opera

In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther discuss current releases Monsters, Pelada, The Warrior’s Way and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. They also delve into the drive-in horror classic known as Phantasm (this week’s Thursday Horror Picture Show) and the high-energy hijinks of the Marx Brothers’ A Night At The Opera (next week’s Asheville Film Society screening). And to cap things off, they also speculate on the quality of soon-to-be-released flicks The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Tourist.

Elitist Bastards: All Aboard The Midnight Meat Train

In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther discuss current releases Burlesque, Faster, Love And Other Drugs and Tangled. They also discuss soon-to-be-released films Cool It, 127 Hours and The Warrior’s Way. They also talk about Midnight Meat Train (this week’s Thursday Horror Picture Show) and What’s Up, Doc? (next week’s Asheville Film Society screening).

Elitist Bastards: There’s Something About Harry

In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther discuss current releases Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and The Next Three Days. The intrepid reviewing duo also chat a bit about this week’s Thursday Horror Picture Show double-feature of Bride of the Monster and The Devil Bat (two turkeys for Thanksgiving), and next week’s Asheville Film Society screening, One Hour With You. And just to cap things off, they also discuss soon-to-open films Burlesque, Faster, Love And Other Drugs and Tangled.

Elitist Bastards: Of Deathly Hallows, Werewolves and Skylines

In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther discuss current releases Skyline, Unstoppable, Morning Glory and Conviction. They also chat about Werewolf of London (this week’s Thursday Horror Picture Show) and Millennium Actress (next week’s Asheville Film Society screening), as well as this weekend’s new releases Tamara Drewe, Fair Game, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and The Next Three Days.

Elitist Bastards: Of Vampires and Tyler Perry

In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther chat about current releases Due Date, For Colored Girls, Megamind, Nowhere Boy and The Tillman Story. They also discuss classic silent horror film Nosferatu (this week’s Thursday Horror Picture Show) and the 2000 film which was inspired by it, Shadow of the Vampire (next week’s Asheville Film Society screening). And if that wasn’t enough, the duo also wax speculative on soon-to-be-released films Conviction, Unstoppable, Morning Glory, Skyline, Four Lions and Inside Job.

Elitist Bastards: Enter The Coherer

In this week’s podcast, Mountain Xpress film critic Ken Hanke is joined by producer/coherer Steve Shanafelt (filling in for Justin Souther) to discuss this week’s current releases: Saw 3D, Buried, Catfish and Jack Goes Boating. The two also discuss Sleepy Hollow (this week’s Thursday Horror Picture Show) and Little Miss Marker (next week’s Asheville Film Society screening), as well as soon-to-be-released films Due Date, For Colored Girls, Megamind, Nowhere Boy and The Tillman Story.

Elitist Bastards: You Will Meet A Tall Dark Souther

In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies, Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther discuss current releases Heartbreaker, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Hereafter and Paranormal Activity 2. They also happily consider the merits of Synecdoche, New York (next week’s Asheville Film Society screening) and the silent-horror marathon of the “Old, Dark Cinema Lounge” series they’ll be screening over Halloween weekend. And to top it all off, they even have a few thoughts on upcoming releases Saw 3D, Buried, Catfish and Jack Goes Boating.http://www.mountainx.com/images/blogimages/markofthebastards-thumb.jpg

Elitist Bastards: Reviewers, Extremely Dangerous

In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies, Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther discuss current releases Waiting for “Superman”, I Want Your Money, N-Secure, RED, Never Let Me Go and Jackass 3D. They also discuss From Beyond, this week’s Thursday Horror Picture Show, and The Cat and the Canary, next week’s Asheville Film Society screening. And to top it all off, the speculate on the quality of upcoming releases You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Hereafter and Paranormal Activity 2.

Elitist Bastards: Like Secretaria­t Dust

In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies, Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther discuss current releases Secretariat, My Soul To Take, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Life as We Know It and Like Dandelion Dust. They also praise Gods and Monsters, next week’s Asheville Film Society screening, and consider soon-to-open films I Want Your Money, N-Secure, RED, Never Let Me Go and Jackass 3D.

Elitist Bastards: Golddiggin­g Cemetery Men On Facebook

In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies, Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther review Let Me In, Animal Kingdom, The Social Network, Farewell, Chain Letter and Case 39. They also discuss the surreal Italian horror film Cemetery Man (also known as Dellamorte Dellamore, this week’s Thursday Horror Picture Show), and classic musical comedy Gold Diggers of 1933 (next week’s Asheville Film Society screening). And to top it all off, the duo consider the potential quality of upcoming releases Secretariat, Life as We Know It, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Like Dandelion Dust and My Soul to Take.

Elitist Bastards: An Overrated Gekko and A Bunch of Boring Owls

In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies, Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther discuss current releases Cairo Time, You Again, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, The Virginity Hit and Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole. They then delve into the classic Hammer horror flick Horror of Dracula (this week’s Thursday Horror Picture Show) and Pedro Almodóvar’s 1988 film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (next week’s Asheville Film Society screening). And to top it all off, the speculate on the quality of soon-to-open films Case 39, Chain Letter, Let Me In, The Social Network and Animal Kingdom.