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Dirty Deeds

Dirty Deeds boasts a passably entertaining idea that is butchered in the telling. The underlying premise offers the opportunity for some Animal House/American Pie/Revenge of the Nerds-style entertainment, but the unfunny screenplay and inadequate ...

Run Time: 1:33
U.S. Release Date: 2005-08-26
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Drugs, Sexual Situations, Violence)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: David Kendall
Cast: Milo Ventimiglia, Lacey Chabert, Charles Durning, ...
Dirty Dozen, The

More than 30 years after its initial release, The Dirty Dozen remains one of the most popular war films ever to grace the silver screen - a reputation that not even three bad made-for-TV sequels in the late '80s could tarnish. A quintessential "gu...

Run Time: 2:30
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: WAR/ADVENTURE
Director: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, ...
Dirty Pretty Things

It is often said that America is a "melting pot." Judging by director Stephen Frears' unconventional portrait of life in London, the U.K. is just as much a bubbling cauldron as its former colonies. Since the 20th century, every major city acro...

Run Time: 1:37
U.S. Release Date: 2003-08-01
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Stephen Frears
Cast: Chiwetel Ejofor, Audrey Tautou, Sergi Lopez, ...
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

With a title like Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, one shouldn’t expect to take the movie seriously and that’s the attitude the filmmakers anticipated audiences to have. A comedy caper that relies more on the charm of its stars than the twistiness...

Run Time: 1:50
U.S. Release Date: 1988-12-14
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Oz
Cast: Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly, ...
Dirty Shame, A

It can be convincingly argued that John Waters' oeuvre is an acquired taste. If that's the case, I haven't yet acquired it. I view Waters as a pre-adolescent male in a state of arrested development. He is obsessed with what kids snickeringly ref...

Run Time: 1:28
U.S. Release Date: 2004-09-24
MPAA Rating: "NC-17" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: John Waters
Cast: Tracey Ullman, Chris Isaak, Johnny Knoxville, ...

I briefly considered writing a "formal" review of Peter Biskind's Down and Dirty Pictures, but decided that I didn't want to officially branch out into book criticism. I'd rather be able to read things without thinking about how I'm going to present...

We interrupt my year-end look back at 2008 for a story I stumbled upon in today's Philadelphia Inquirer. The direct link is here, but I'll copy and paste the relevant details:"A South Philadelphia man enraged because a family was talking during a ...