Film Review: Fateful Findings (2014)

For much of the past decade, Tommy Wiseau's The Room has set the gold standard for terrible movies. Other contenders have challenged it for the title of Best Worst Movie, including legitimately incompetent films like James Nyugen's Birdemic and decidedly more ironic efforts like SyFy's Sharknado trilogy, but they haven't managed to dent the aura of Wiseau's cack-handed attempt to meld the roiling passion of Tennessee Williams with the green screen technology of a teenager's first web series. As bad as those other films may be, they lack the feverish vision of Wiseau, a man with so much to say but absolutely no clue how to express himself.

Film Review: Movie 43 (2013)

Halle Berry (pictured) discovers that Catwoman is no longer the biggest mistake she's ever made.

There are many different kinds of bad film, with no single genre being immune from producing absolute crap, but far and away the worse kind of bad movie is a bad comedy. This is for the simple reason that if a drama or a horror film is bad, you can at least laugh at how badly it fails to function on even its most basic level. Mystery Science Theater 3000 spent a decade demonstrating that fact by turning bad horror, science fiction and drama into comedy. On the other hand, if a comedy doesn't make you laugh, then there's really no good way to respond to it. All you can do is sit there and pray that it ends soon.

Film Review: Pain & Gain (2013)

Danny Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) is a trainer at the Sun Gym in Miami, Florida. He's a smart guy who believes that hard work will pay off if you believe in what you are working towards, be it killer deltoids or a nice house with a big lawn. But Lugo's been knocked back a few times in life, not least of all because of his white collar criminal past, in which he used his intelligence to defraud people of a lot of money. Given a second chance by the gym's owner (Rob Corddry), Lugo starts looking for his shot at the big time.