Planet Terror

Pros: A perfect horror comedy filled with gore
Cons: May be too over the top for some

Planet Terror is the latest film from Desperado director Robert Rodriguez. This movie was one half of the Grindhouse collaboration that he did with writer/director Quentin Tarantino. It’s a shame that it failed at the box office, but ...

Pros: Naveen Andrews, Josh Brolin (never thought I'd hear myself say that) Camp and non-actors.
Cons: also pacing.

If you asked me before this weekend who the better director was between Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino I would have said "QT.. hands down, why you askin' me such a stupid question?". Not that I didn’t groove on ...

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It's a damn shame that Dimension Films chose to split up Grindhouse into two separately released feature films on DVD. For those of us with no ability to get to a movie theater during the two weeks it was out, we missed out on what surely would ...

Pros: Very different.
Cons: Extremo violent; leave the kids and the squeamish at home.

Sometimes you just want to see a movie that blasts away at everything in the world and blows it all to kingdom come, like a giant eraser taking away the whole mess. You get that and more in the Rodriguez/Tarrentino amalgamation Planet Terror, a ...

Pros: Quirky, fun and scary at the same time.
Cons: Disgusting.

Last night, at 3:00 AM, I couldn't go to sleep, so I turned on the TV. After flipping through channels, I noticed that Planet Terror was starting in four minutes. I decided to watch it. It was hard to fall asleep to halos of gunfire and ...

Pros: Rodriguez's directing, comical gore...and of course the machine gun leg
Cons: Still can't get over the split DVDs

As anyone who read my previous review of Death Proof will know, the separation of the two halves of Grindhouse has left me incurably disappointed. And for those who have read the previous review I won't deliver another tirade here; for those who haven't, ...

Pros: Tarantino and Rodriguez add yet another page to the history of B-movie outrageousness...
Cons: May be too violent for some audiences...

Leave it to Quentin Tarantino, the all-time King of the B-Movie, to find a new way to exploit the exploitation genre. Teaming with his long-time ally and protégé Robert Rodriguez, they managed to bring to the screen what may well be considered the first ...

Pros: Entertaining homage to 1970s zombie thrillers, very effectively done.
Cons: This is a sort of joke. Not a serious movie.

PLANET TERROR is the second half of the 2007 Quentin Tarantino - Robert Rodriguez tribute to the mindless thriller double features of the 1970s. Apparently it is not yet in the cards for a single DVD of GRINDHOUSE, so the two halves - PLANET TERROR and ...

Pros: Really stylish looking, emulating the seventies grindhouse style to a tee.
Cons: While exploitation movies are not known for restraint, Planet Terror goes a bit too far.

Ok, if you've been paying attention to my reviews around here you know that I have a boundless love for movies so bad that they're good. Slasher flicks, Japanese monster movies, shaw brothers Kung Fu flicks, blaxploitation and exploitation cinema are all ...

Pros: A delightful violent stylish romp.
Cons: People may be turned away by the violence.

To be honest, when I first saw that odd picture of Rose McGowan standing with her machine gun prosthetic leg and staring ahead with a sultry look on her face, I thought, here’s yet another movie that relies on cheap tricks and stupid violence to win ...

Pros: Action, Guns, women, zombies, explosions, a great cast, and coupling of Tarantino and Rodriguez
Cons: The DVD does not have all the previews seen in the theatre

Guns, women, zombies, and action all add up to be an instant cult classic from Robert Rodriguez. Planet Terror is the first of two films that are all a part of Grind house. Grindhouses were popular in the 70's as a very seedy type of theater in a less ...