Tearing apart your favorite movies
Once upon a time (in 1990) there was a movie named "Ghost" that haunted box offices across the world until it made more than $500 million. "Ghost" scared its audiences with terrifyingly bad performances, frighteningly cheesy love scenes and startlingly phony special effects. More...
The 2015 Judd Apatow/Amy Schumer joint, "Trainwreck," has been heralded as some sort of groundbreaking feminist triumph, but it's about as feminist as your creepy drunken uncle Lou. It's really just a disjointed hodgepodge of Amy's standup bits and sketch ideas with a romantic comedy shoehorned in. More...
We fired up the mics immediately after watching the 2017 Oscars, and we couldn't stop asking, "What the hell just happened?" because, uh, seriously: what the hell just happened? More...
Disney's misguided cartoon about racism (they're actually against it this time), "Zootopia," received a 2016 Academy Award nomination for Animated Feature and is currently sitting at 98% on Rotten Tomatoes. More...
Happy Valentine's Day! In honor of this special occasion, we discuss a movie that puts the romance back into terminal dementia, Nicholas Sparks's "The Notebook." It's the third time we've covered an MTV Movie Award winner for Best Kiss, but it won't be the last. We're talking to you, "Shakespeare in Love." More...
Kevin Smith's 1997 turd pile, "Chasing Amy," has 88% on Rotten Tomatoes. We didn't want to waste our time wading through this cesspool of a movie, but the critics didn't do their job, so we had to. More...
The 2015 Academy darling "The Big Short" focuses on a band of sanctimonious Wall Street traders. The director of "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" and "The Other Guys," Adam McKay, has now decided that he’s a serious auteur filmmaker all the sudden. More...
On this special episode of Film Snuff, we are guiding you through the recently announced Oscar nominations for movies released in 2016 while also giving you our take on them. More...
We tried to tap-dance around the subject, but we couldn't manage to keep our big yaps shut about the 2011 Best Picture winner, "The Artist." Despite the silent nature of this film, the movie's transparent pandering to the Academy came in loud and clear. More...
A great thinker and out-of-work electrician once said, "With great power comes great responsibility." 2002's MTV Movie Award-winner for Best Kiss, "Spider-Man," failed to live up to the great responsibility of its $140M budget and spun a jizzy web of awful performances, lame special effects, and jokes that fell flat. More...
On May 16, 1986 the United States Navy released a propaganda film featuring some of the worst music ever created. Its purpose was to brainwash young men into signing up for the military by offering them false hope of becoming the best fighter pilots in the world. More...
Woody Allen won an Oscar for writing the 2011 film “Midnight in Paris” that pretends to assail pretension and nostalgic yearning for different artistic eras when, at the same time, all the movie does is romanticize different artistic eras in the most pretentious way possible. More...
How on earth (or any other planet) was James Cameron's 2009 film "Avatar" nominated for 9 Oscars and how is it currently the highest-grossing movie of all time? This movie doesn't brand itself as an animated film, even though it is, and somehow it won the Oscar for Best Cinematography. More...
Two violent criminals invade a house in which an 8-year-old child has been abandoned while his family goes on vacation to Paris. The 1990 classic film, "Home Alone," shows us that child endangerment is more fun than a barrel of monkeys. More...
A mentally ill author, a spunky waitress, and a gay painter show us that all you need to do in life to find true happiness is settle for less in the 1997 Best Picture nominee "As Good as It Gets." More...
Real-life professional American football player (and actual human being, mind you) Michael Oher, who is the subject of the 2009 Oscar-nominated sappy box office smash hit “The Blind Side,” isn’t the biggest fan of how he was depicted in this movie — and we can’t blame him. More...
Dear Mr. Vernon,
We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice 97 minutes to watch this movie. But we think you're crazy to consider this an acceptable piece of art. More...
We all know the awful sound of connecting to dial-up. But can you imagine a whole movie as painful as that? Yeah? Then join us as we tear apart the sickly-sweet 1998 romantic comedy about two people conducting emotional affairs: "You've Got Mail." More...
This week we have a Bogie in our sights as we tear apart one of the most acclaimed movies in Hollywood history, "Casablanca." This 1942 film noir "masterpiece" tends to stirrup the emotions in critics, but we feel that it's time to put it out to pasture. More...
With today being Election Day, we considered covering a movie about the Apocalypse, but instead decided to tear apart a movie about a U.S. president. So we went with the 1995 so-called romantic comedy "The American President." More...