Dead Horse

The Horses close out the Robert Langdon trilogy with a "bang" (that "bang" was the sound of the pope blowing up). Special guest and good friend Connor Scully joins Becky, Dixon, and PJ to pore over INFERNO: a movie that inarguably contains events, actions, and performers.

The Horses excitedly welcome special guest Katie Hughes to the stable and then gesture wanly at ANGELS & DEMONS, a film which may or may not be even more boring than the DA VINCI CODE depending on which of the hosts you ask. If nothing else it's admirable that a movie about discovering antimatter and then using it to blow up the pope can make you this tired.

Do all the stuff characters in Nightmare on Elm Street movies do to stay awake gang-- it's THE DA VINCI CODE! The horses welcome back Ellen Selby and then immediately start apologizing to Ellen Selby for making her watch this movie again. Our thoughts? Unscramble the phrase "adaline slipknots wrought" for our review!

(Answer: "we all took naps during this")

Say "boo" at your best friend and watch him absolutely freak out, watch him react like you cheated on your wife with his wife-- it's Casper's Scare School! The horses and special guest Stephen Jones dissect the final flick in casper's filmed ouvre; it's... not unpleasant! I'd give it a thumbs-up but like a half-committed one. Maybe I'd even follow up the the thumbs-up by saying "well, y'know" to indicate that the thumb is compromised.

Dead Horse's experiment with reviewing good movies for grownups continues, with Richard Linklater's 2004 masterpiece "Before Sunset." Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke return, co-writing the script for a real-time romantic drama that makes an artistic case for sequels. How do I write a funny summary about this one god damb. We reviewed three movies about killer sharks and this movie is more riveting and high-stakes than all of them combined. Love is real. Movies are good, actually.