Articles by Will Sloan
El Topo [Blu-Ray]
Alejandro Jodorowsky
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo (1970) is credited as being the first "Midnight Movie," and while not the best film-to-get-high-to of its er...
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Vol. XXI: MST3K vs. Gamera
PUBLISHED Jul 25, 2011
The armchair revolutionary in me would like to regard Mystery Science Theater 3000 as fundamentally radical. With "entertainment journalism...
Bloodrayne: The Third Reich
Uwe Boll
PUBLISHED Jul 25, 2011
"Who watches this movie?" asks Uwe Boll rhetorically in the DVD commentary for Bloodrayne: The Third Reich. "The 15- to 25-year-old boys."...
The Cocoanuts
Robert Florey, Joseph Santley
PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2011
There are numerous interchangeable glamour girls lurking in the background of The Cocoanuts (1929). They're usually in chorus lines, kickin...
Duck Soup
Leo McCarey
PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2011
The word "anarchic" is used so often to describe the Marx Brothers, but how seriously do people really take this claim? Because their films...
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
Rodman Flender
PUBLISHED Jul 7, 2011
Very funny, candid and exhausting, Conan O'Brien Can't Stop has no arc and no editorially imposed "story." It ostensibly follows Conan O'Br...
The Zookeeper
Frank Coraci
PUBLISHED Jul 7, 2011
More than those any of his contemporaries in the Happy Madison stable (Schneider, Spade, king poo-bah Sandler), Kevin James's screen person...
Barney's Version
Richard J. Lewis
PUBLISHED Jul 5, 2011
Not many actors could have pulled off Barney Panofsky. A terrible TV producer and worse husband, he cheats on his wives, lies to everyone,...