The Hutch

Category: Reviews – Movies

  • Is Raising Cain a good movie or not?

    I came across Jack “Jackula” Shen’s video review of the Brian De Palma movie “Raising Cain” and I had to agree with him that I’ve never been able to tell if it’s a good movie or not. It has a LOT of dumb bits, like the shocker moment where a sudden switch of a TV…

  • “Infestation” is great popcorn fun

    Last year, as Hollywood Video was closing its doors here in Rochester, MN, I was running around the place grabbing any movie that looked halfway decent… and a bunch that weren’t even that. If you think “Hump Day” sounds hilarious, you’re right: it sounds hilarious. The back of the DVD talks about two guys who…

  • “Green Lantern” movie review

    I am, perhaps, not the person to write this review.  I may be the world’s biggest Elongated Man fan, but of the big guys at DC Comics I was a Green Lantern fan going all the way back to his first appearances on Super Friends.  Hal Jordan was my hero.  He had determination and strong…

  • Review: Toy Story 3 in 3-D

    I’m 40 years old this year. “Toy Story” debuted when I was 25, and though I was no longer a kid, that film transported me back to the years when I would let my imagination run wild just like Andy in the movie. Pixar immediately established itself as what the Disney brand used to be:…

  • Podcast 6: Avatar and More

    Erik and I did a pile of podcasts in January, and it’s taking me a while to edit them. However, I couldn’t let Avatar hit shelves without posting Erik’s thoughts on it and several other films (then in theaters, now on DVD).

  • No flying cars, neither.

    So I’m watching “Can’t Buy Me Love“. It’s a 1987 movie from when Seth Green was a little punk. In it, Patrick Dempsey plays a 17-year-old geek who arranges for a senior class hottie to date him for a month so that the “In Crowd” will consider him to be one of them. As the…

  • Podcast 5: Superman’s 50th Anniversary TV Special

    Podcast 5 is up…and it’s still 2009! I promised Erik Burnham that I would have all of our older recordings published before the end of 2009… and I have 1/2 hour left to make that promise KEPT. This one’s less than 10 minutes long. Just a brief recording that wasn’t worth throwing out, despite some…

  • Podcast 4: Chatting about Movies and Star Trek

    This started out as a test of my new equipment to see if the sound quality improved (it did). Unfortunately, you should not get two guys with extensive video store clerking experience chatting about random movies. We talked for about 50 minutes! We learn that Erik pronounces “bio-pic” without the hyphen. I tend to be…

  • Phantom Menace epic review (or epic fail?)

    This one is especially filled with obscenities, so please be doubly-warned before pressing play. But really…if you like funny reviews, you need to see this! It’s hilarious, and yet it makes some hard points…such as: WHO was the main character of the Phantom Menace?

  • RedLetterMedia’s ST: Nemesis review (hilarious!)

    I know I didn’t like Star Trek: Nemesis, but this really helps bring to light that I only thought of half the reasons it sucked.