All Posts by Justin Klugh

They’re all here: Struggling heroine, mysterious hero, camouflaged army guy, selfish coward, glamor girl, ugly girl, and Cameron Frye. They’re paper thin, they’re never going to be “Lost,” and their build up of mysteries before the inevitable trip down Revelation Mountain just isn’t going to hook you into watching seven blank character slates try to out-act...
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I was hired as a dog walker the day the Eagles first signed Michael Vick. It was like getting drafted after a terrorist attack.
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AMC, like FX, has come out of the woodwork in recent years with a toolbox full of well-acted, high quality narratives featuring interesting cinematography.  And if you saw the special sneak preview of “Rubicon,” which is set to premiere just after “Mad Men” on August 1 starring James Badge Dale from “24,” and “The...
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But come on. You've got to hurry up. Some of us are perpetually late for work.
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So, I finally got around to seeing Youth in Revolt, and I know you’re supposed to view a movie based on a book as an entirely separate medium, keeping in mind that the goal of the film is to capture the spirit of the book, rather than merely translate each and every minute facet into visual...
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Nothing helps being delayed on the runway for 120 minutes like reading Tim O’Brien’s horrifically indepth and artfully crafted description of one of his squadmates in Vietnam drowning in a lake of human feces.  Like Requiem for a Dream, its one of those painfully awesome stories that you like and respect, but will probably only want...
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I'm sure some day you'll burrow deep enough up a professor's asshole to be close to his heart.
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If you thought Major League Baseball was scary (just ask this guy), wait until you read Odd Man Out Matt McCarthy’s autobiography about his fiery plane crash of a Minor League baseball career, which included a coach becoming so enraged he stripped naked.  This is not a success story; this is the story of...
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You’d think a guy who was responsible for a lot of the things George W. Bush said would put together a series of horror stories meant to be reiterated by Democrats around the camp fire, but Matt Latimer’s Speech-less uses a novel concept in his memoirs of his days as the former president’s speechwriter:...
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In Harry Brown, Michael Caine goes all “ex-Royal Marine” on some raping, murdering, drug-addled teens who are apparently responsible for 90% of all the drug-related deaths, sexual assaults, and teen pregnancies in South London, as well as, you guessed it, the death of his best friend.  Caine is the movie’s crutch, and it leans–heavily–on...
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