Introducing Endless Mode: A New Games & Anime Site from Paste
In theory, an Underworld sequel that cuts out all the endless mythologizing and chatter and leaves nothing but the action might sound promising. In practice, though, Underworld: Awakening (Screen Gems) barely feels like a movie. It’s a repetitive series of CGI-enhanced leaps and gunfights, with a we-didn’t-really-care-about-this MacGuffin-driven plot cribbed from Ultraviolet. Any franchise stooping that low for its influences really needs to call it a day…
Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie (Magnolia) is an exuberant, feature-length “fuck you” to good taste, solid judgment, propriety, and commercial considerations. The Will Ferrell-produced provocation casts the anti-comedy cult heroes as glib show-business phonies who waste a billion dollars making an unreleasable film, then must make back that billon dollars by running a mall seemingly located in the ninth circle of hell for a lunatic businessman played by Ferrell. The Adult Swim duo remains as divisive and uncompromising as ever: In Billion, they’ve created a brazen, sometimes hilarious curiosity all but designed to scare everyone but the hardest of hardcore fans away…
If you see only one fact-inspired movie in which Channing Tatum plays the husband of a neurologically damaged Rachel McAdams who doesn't remember ever marrying him, make it The Vow (Screen Gems).
