Author: Dustin Hucks
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Review: Brutal Bootlegging Tale ‘Lawless’ Doesn’t Go Down Quite So Smoothly
The twelve-year run of prohibition in the United States was a period that punctuated social imparity, religious activism, and was a launchpad for some of…
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The Anti-Expendables: 10 Bad Guys Who Should Team Up Against Sly and the Gang
2010’s The Expendables gave fans of iconic action hero badasseration a taste of what it would be like to experience some of our favorite face…
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Review: ‘People Like Us’ Overcomes a Clumsy Narrative With Strong Performances and Plucky Charm
You know how clumsy puppies can’t help but be adorable, even when they do awful things? Basset Hound pups are a prime example. Their feet…
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Review: ‘Darling Companion’ Is No Bark and No Bite
Editor’s note: With Darling Companion opening this week in limited release, we thought we’d unleash Dustin’s review from the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, originally…
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Interview: A Moment with ‘West of Memphis’ Subject John Mark Byers
I interview a lot of people – it’s part and parcel to the job of entertainment journalism. It’s not generally my favorite thing, as I’m…
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Delightful ‘Jiro Dreams of Sushi’ Will Make Audiences Hungry For More
I love sushi. Not just the taste, but the overall experience. For me, sushi is an event – there is ceremony, pageantry, and tradition that…
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Review: ‘Restless’ is Confoundingly Bad
I’ve no better, more eloquent way to put this – Gus Van Sant’s Restless is awful, pandering, painfully acted, lazily written, up its own ass schlock.…
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Review: ‘Fright Night’ is Slick, Sinister and Playful
I am likely one of very few critics that sat down to watch Craig Gillespie’s Fright Night having not seen Tom Holland’s 1985 original first,…
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Review: ‘Cars 2’ is a Long, Strange Trip
Five years after the success of Cars, Pixar finally drops the second installment on waiting audiences in Cars 2. I am unabashedly a Pixar fan;…
