In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther discuss current releases Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, Hoodwinked 2: Hood Vs. Evil, Rubber, The 5th Quarter, Fast Five, I Am and Prom.
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Elitist Bastards: Miami Steve’s Big Happy Family
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.
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).
ActionFest 2011 recap and podcast
While the official end to ActionFest came Sunday night, after the film festival’s closing night screening of Takashi Miike’s 13 Assassins at The Carolina Asheville, it unofficially wound down Monday night behind the building of West Asheville’s Blue Barnhouse studio. There, a handful of people caught a screening of Evan Glodell’s pre-Apocalyptic love story Bellflower, projected on a bed sheet pegged to a couple of drainage pipes. Not far away was not only the film’s director, but also the star of the film, a matte black, fire-breathing muscle car named Mother Medusa. As a whole, this was not only the perfect finale for ActionFest 2011, but a pin-point summation of it, too, with its mix of the community driven and the unorthodox.
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.
The Big Bang: ActionFest Returns
Those deafening thunderbursts of explosions, staccato blasts of gunfights, whining squeals of car chases and the general cacophony of bloodlust coming from South Asheville are nothing to fret over—it’s just ActionFest 2011.
ActionFest: The Body Count Continues
And so it’s time for another ActionFest. Last year—its first year—the film festival so impressed Moviemaker magazine that it was selected as one of the “20 Coolest” festivals in the country. In itself, that’s pretty cool, but this year looks to be even cooler—at least to judge by the line-up of movies being screened.
Legend of the fall
ActionFest Lifetime Achievement Award honoree Buddy Joe Hooker talks to Xpress about stunts, film, and what it’s like to jump off a cliff.
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.
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.
Elitist Bastards: The Brides of Rango
In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther talk about current releases Rango, The Adjustment Bureau, Beastly and Take Me Home Tonight.
Clubland and movies correction
Xpress readers who checked Clubland in this week’s issue may have wondered if they just went back in time, while those who read our movie reviews may have wondered if they’d slipped into a strange dimension where Matt Damon starred in a mediocre ‘80s nostalgia flick. They didn’t; we goofed up.
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.
Cranky Hanke’s Weekly Reeler March 2-8: An animated Johnny Depp arrives on the scene—and others
It’s a pretty crowded schedule at the movies this week. We have four mainstream titles—The Adjustment Bureau, Beastly, Rango, Take Me Home Tonight—and two art titles—Casino Jack (at The Carolina) and Rabbit Hole (at the Fine Arts). In other words, we’re not hurting for quantity. Quality may be an entirely different matter. In some cases, I’d risk money on it.