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Star Trek Beyond: it’s the villain, stupid
Wut. Confusion and adrenaline reigned during a recent screening of “Star Trek Beyond”, the latest installment of the iconic franchise. And after two earlier films in this new cast, the Enterprise has...
View ArticleTop 50 Comedies Since 2000
This summer, Pat discovered and shared among the Dollar Theater Podcast crew an article from the AV Club, featuring a ranking of their top 50 comedies since 2000. We were PERSONALLY offended by how...
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Top 50 Comedies Since 2000 – #50-41
#48 (tie) – The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia (2009) DAN: What would you expect out of a documentary made by the same people who brought us “Jackass”? Johnny Knoxville, Jeff Tremaine and...
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Top 50 Comedies Since 2000 – #40-32
#40 – Rango (2011) TONY: Personally, I LOVE westerns, but you don’t need to be a fan of the genre to appreciate this sharp animated parody/homage starring the voice talents of Johnny Depp (putting in...
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Top 50 Comedies Since 2000 – #31-22
#28 (tie) – The Battered Bastards of Baseball (2014) DAN: In what is probably the best sports documentary of the century (take that, 30 for 30), filmmakers Chapman and Maclain Way tell the story of...
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Top 50 Comedies Since 2000 – #21-11
#20 (tie) – Zombieland (2009) PAT: The takeaway from this one: casting is everything. The mismatched team of Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Abigail Breslin, and Emma Stone vs. the undead is great...
View Article#32: Criminal and Mr. Brooks
For this episode, we explore a couple entries from Kevin Costner’s Dollar filmography: 2016’s “Criminal” and 2007’s classic “Mr. Brooks”.
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Top 50 Comedies Since 2000 – #10-1
#10 – The Other Guys (2010) PAT: “Aim for the bushes!” A great spoof/buddy cop flick. Two desk cops (Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg) wish they were real cops and, you guessed it, after a series of...
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#33: Keanu and Seven Psychopaths
Keep your dogs and cats close, as the Dollar Theater discusses pet-napping flicks “Keanu” and “Seven Psychopaths”. “Keanu” needed more Keanu, who provides possibly the finest bullet avoidance of any...
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Who had a better basketball performance while ill?
Michael Jordan Disease: flu Location: Delta Center; Salt Lake City, UT Pts: 38 FG: 13/27 Min: 44:00 Win: Game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals Snake Plissken Disease: Plutoxin 7 Location: L.A. Coliseum Pts:...
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Quick Holiday Movie Musings
Thanksgiving through New Year’s Day is a wonderful time for movies, both because so many big-budget and prestige films arrive in theaters, but also because there’s a helluvalotta time spent sitting...
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#34: Magnificent Seven and Hell or High Water
Join the Dollar Theater crew on an expedition to the Front Range as we discuss two films from the great American genre, the Western. We first discuss the remake of a remake in ‘The Magnificent Seven’...
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Dr. Strange Let Me Down
(The following is a drunken email sent by Tony to Dan–edited for clarity–after Tony saw Dr. Strange) the movie SHOULD have been as crazy as THIS I mean, magic (particularly the crazy, drugged-out shit...
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#37: The Best of 2016
Join The Dollar Theater crew on this discussion of all things dollar from 2016. We explore the best deaths, one-liners, cameos, actors, actresses and films in dollar cinema. Dollar Gold?
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Dollar Rewind: The Sons of Katie Elder
Dollar cinema wasn’t born with the hyper-masculine Schwarzenegger and Stallone flicks of the 1980s, even if that’s where many of us cut our teeth on the genre. Dollar movies have existed since pictures...
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#39: Best of 2017
Will John Wick 2 take the coveted Best Dollar Flick? The Dollar Theater brings to you its annual review of the best of dollar cinema. Here, we look back at 2017 and anoint the best actor, actress,...
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The Fly (1986)
Dial in your settings for teleportation, declare your love for Geena Davis, and be afraid… be very afraid. Yes, it’s that time of year again. Gulp your pumpkin spice, carve your jack-o-lanterns, and...
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Squirm (1976)
Fly Creek, Georgia has a problem. That problem: flesh-eating worms. Dive in with Mick, Geri, Roger, Naomi, Alma, and the Sheriff — and not too many more folks with speaking roles due to budgetary...
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Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (2006)
And the seasonal movie programming keeps chugging and chainsawing along… Halloween film #3 this year is the 2006 documentary Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film. For genre...
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Night of the Comet (1984)
Science Fiction. Horror. Comedy. An extinction level event happens. What do a couple of Valley girls do? Head to the mall, like, for sure. Totally. Are you ready for an extended post-apocalyptic...
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