Rick Trembles' Motion Picture Purgatory

Spike Jonze's adaptation of Maurice Sendak's beloved children's story Where the Wild Things Are has been met with mixed reactions. So of course our own Rick Trembles has to add his voice to the crowd.
Submitted by The Woman In Black on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 2:42pm.

This week Trembles takes us a little off the beaten path into a true tale of sex addiction and murder: Paul Schrader's 2002 Auto Focus starring Greg Kinnear as TV star Bob Crane and Willem Dafoe as his video technician buddy John Carpenter (nope, not director John Carpenter of Halloween fame, but rather a sleazy swinger who gets credit for turning Crane into a sex addict).
Submitted by The Woman In Black on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 4:47pm.

It was No. 1 at the box office last weekend and has been the topic of more discussion among horror fans than just about any other film in recent years. So of course Rick Trembles had to add his $.02 about the phenomenon known as Paranormal Activity.
Submitted by Uncle Creepy on Tue, 10/27/2009 - 1:51pm.

Around these parts we consider ourselves very fortunate to have Rick Trembles providing us with his own unique spin on films both mainstream and well outside the Hollywood system. Case in point? This week's MPP installment: the Belgian flick Amer, which was directed by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani.
Submitted by Uncle Creepy on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 2:17pm.

This week Trembles again takes us back in time ... to 1969 and Tesuo Ishii's Inferno of Torture.
Submitted by The Woman In Black on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 1:14pm.

After a couple of weeks of some less than mainstream Motion Picture Purgatory installments, Trembles returns to the present day with his spin on Ruben Fleischer's Zombieland.
Submitted by The Woman In Black on Tue, 10/06/2009 - 1:45pm.

Now here's a film I bet few of you have seen: A Forked World. Once again, leave it to Trembles to expose us to something new and different!
Submitted by Uncle Creepy on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 2:04pm.

One thing I love about being the designated DC staffer to put up Trembles' review each week is that we just never know what the hell he's going to come up with next! Case in point: 1958's Bijo to Ekitainingen aka The H-Man.
Submitted by The Woman In Black on Tue, 09/22/2009 - 1:32pm.

Oh, Sorority Row, how you let us down. Most of us went in hoping/expecting it would live up to its R rating with boobs, blood, and a big finale. Instead, we got (as Nomad wrote in his Sorority Row review) "a butt-numbing experience, watching the ladies be picked off in the lamest ways possible (save one shining moment that is too little, too late)." Now it's Trembles' turn to weigh in.
Submitted by The Woman In Black on Tue, 09/15/2009 - 1:26pm.

It seems that Trembles decided to do what a substantial number of other horror fans did (judging by box office receipts): basically ignore Rob Zombie's Halloween II and just move on. And so, instead of piling more venom on H2, this week's Motion Picture Purgatory tackles the testosterone-fueled Gamer.
Submitted by The Woman In Black on Tue, 09/08/2009 - 2:47pm.

The fans have spoken, and The Final Destination won its opening weekend box office battle with Halloween II. But the real test of its mettle is how Trembles sees it, so of course it's the topic of this week's Motion Picture Purgatory.
Submitted by The Woman In Black on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 3:06pm.

When he sent over his take on Graphic Sexual Horror a few weeks ago, we thought Trembles had gone just about as NSFW as he could, but this week's take on Antichrist puts that effort to shame! Proceed at your own risk, and don't blame us if you feel a twinge or two down in your nether regions.
Submitted by The Woman In Black on Wed, 08/26/2009 - 6:27pm.

Knowing is one of those films that just keeps sticking around. It could have been something special, but instead it gave us some spectacular imagery and one of the hokiest endings in cinematic history. So of course Trembles has to have the last word on it!
Submitted by The Woman In Black on Tue, 08/18/2009 - 2:08pm.

District 9 is sitting pretty at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes right now, which of course means that Rick Trembles has to chime in with his $.02 on the film. After you've seen what Trembles came up with, read Nomad's review also.
Submitted by The Woman In Black on Tue, 08/11/2009 - 6:57pm.

Where Rick Trembles' Motion Picture Purgatory is concerned, there are times when it is best just to let his drawings speak for themselves. This week's installment, Graphic Sexual Horror, is one such instance.
Submitted by The Woman In Black on Tue, 08/04/2009 - 3:54pm.