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SCOTT WEINBERG

""One dollar and NINE CENTS!"

"Not unless round's funny."

"My grandfather's work...was...doo-doo!""

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

Biography: http://www.livejournal.com/users/sweinberg // Born and raised in Philadelphia, I got bit by the movie bug at a very early age. After my father brought home a massive Betamax, I began hanging out at the local Video Village (anyone remember those?) and they put me to work. For a few hours of work after school, I got all the free rentals I could handle. (If I told you how many movies I watched between the ages of 13-20, you wouldn't believe it...and yes, I did have a social life!) From West Coast Video to General Cinemas to Tower Video... if it dealt with movies, I worked there. After studying journalism and film at Temple University, I found myself quite unemployed. The Internet afforded me the option to pursue my goal of becoming a film critic, and it's a wonderful life indeed. Hopefully impressive-sounding resum�-type bio-blurb: Scott Weinberg is the author of over 1,900 movie reviews and is currently a member of the Online Film Critics Society, an organization that represents over 190 of the world's finest online film critics. Scott is the Managing Editor of eFilmCritic.com / HollywoodBitchslap.com, where he focuses on new theatrical releases, classics on DVD, cult films both obscure and atrocious, and extensive coverage of the Sundance, South By Southwest, Toronto, and Philadelphia film festivals. His reviews can also be found on websites such as Cinematical, DVD Talk, JoBlo's Movie Emporium (DVD Clinic), Horror.com, Daily-Reviews.com, The Apollo Movie Guide, Monsters at Play, MrSkin.com, and Netflix, while his opinionated movie rants can regularly be heard on WGN radio in Chicago and WMET radio in Washington D.C. Scott also writes features (and the daily Newsday Reports) for Rotten Tomatoes ... plus he just started doing a DVD column for Femme Fatales Magazine, which is pretty darn cool for a geek like him.

Favorites: (In no particular order):Fight Club, The Blues Brothers, Young Frankenstein, Dark City, Se7en, Airplane!, The Princess Bride, Miller's Crossing, The Lord of the Rings, Moulin Rouge, Alien

Publications: Apollo Guide, Cinematical, Daily-Reviews, DVD Clinic, DVDTalk.com, eFilmCritic.com, FEARnet, Hollywood Bitchslap, Horror.com, Monsters At Play, Movie Insider, Rotten Tomatoes

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews: 5455
Total QuickRatings: 2140

Location: Philadelphia, as seen in several wonderful movies

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Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 95%	Star Trek (2009)	" Hell, you could know nothing about the words "Star Trek" and still find a lot to enjoy here." — Cinematical Posted May 8, 2009
Fresh 4/5	N/A	House of the Devil (2009)	" To knock this movie for being slow is like knocking Airplane! for being silly. You might not dig the approach, but that doesn't make it a flaw." — FEARnet Posted May 4, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 18%	Obsessed (2009)	" Too "safe" to be a provocative thriller or an incendiary drama, and it's way too flat and sedate to qualify as a movie bad enough to mock." — Cinematical Posted Apr 26, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 94%	No Country for Old Men (2007)	" Once you open Pandora's Box, there's simply no stopping the beasts that pour out." — FEARnet Posted Apr 24, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 57%	Hush (2008)	" For all of the convention and familiarity that Hush exhibits in the early going, it does a fine job of throwing a few wrenches into a generally predictable premise." — FEARnet Posted Apr 23, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 77%	The Children (2008)	" Watching your kid kill someone is scary, but watching them come after YOU ... yikes." — FEARnet Posted Apr 22, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 31%	The Uninvited (2009)	" Actually one of the best Asia-to-America adaptations since way back when The Ring (or was it The Grudge?) first got the ball rolling." — FEARnet Posted Apr 22, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 17%	Mutant Chronicles (2009)	" Oh, lighten up! It's a pulpy combo of Starship Troopers, The Dirty Dozen and Sky Captain. Perfect for a rainy Saturday afternoon." — FEARnet Posted Apr 14, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	N/A	Laid To Rest (2009)	" Earns a comfortable spot next to Hatchet, Cold Prey, and Behind the Mask as a basic but sincere "love letter" to the best of the '80s horror flicks" — FEARnet Posted Apr 6, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	N/A	Cold Prey 2 (2008)	" No snark, no irony, just a whip-nasty, well-shot, tightly-cut slasher sequel with a bad attitude. (And yes, it feels like a remake of Halloween 2.)" — FEARnet Posted Apr 3, 2009
Fresh 4/5	N/A	Winnebago Man (2009)	" Don't laugh TOO hard at those YouTube 'fools.' That's you and me, don't forget." — Cinematical Posted Apr 3, 2009
Fresh 4/5	N/A	Best Worst Movie (2009)	" Of course people are always drawn together by movies, but do the movies at hand always have to be GOOD ones? (TROLL 2 tells us the answer is no.)" — FEARnet Posted Apr 3, 2009
Fresh 4/5	N/A	Blood River (2009)	" The 'scary stuff' ranges from sexual tension and psychological torture to theological threats and simple fear of death by dehydration..." — FEARnet Posted Apr 3, 2009
Fresh 3/5	N/A	Autopsy (2008)	" A dry set-up and a familiar setting, but its got an admirable devotion to old-fashioned, over-the-top, Fango-friendly gore-gasms." — FEARnet Posted Mar 30, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	N/A	Cold Prey (2006)	" Not an original bone in its body, but it still works (and works well) by force of style, splat, and intensity." — FEARnet Posted Mar 29, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Rotten 51%	Observe and Report (2009)	" Hill and Rogen made precisely the strange little comedy that they wanted to. Trust me when I say that this is NOT your typical studio farce, and that's a wonderful freakin' thing." — Cinematical Posted Mar 29, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 93%	Drag Me To Hell (2009)	" If you're just looking for a fun horror flick that's a little gross, a bit silly, and entirely entertaining, this is bound to be one of the year's finest genre offerings." — FEARnet Posted Mar 29, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	N/A	The Horseman (2008)	" Works as a basic, satisfying "revenge thriller," in that it presents a simple story full of rage, retribution, and catharsis -- but it's so much better than that, really." — FEARnet Posted Mar 29, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 72%	Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)	" A loud, rushed, choppy, silly, colorful Nintendo game of a movie. And it could have been DreamWorks' version of "The Incredibles."" — Cinematical Posted Mar 29, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 18%	The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)	" If you're a big fan of creaking floorboards, sudden jolts, and abandoned funeral homes full of furious spirits, you'll find enough to enjoy in this familiar-yet-engaging enough little thriller." — FEARnet Posted Mar 24, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 36%	The Perfect Sleep (2009)	" An undeniably odd mixture of 80% noir, 15% action, and 5% random homage. I dug it." — Cinematical Posted Mar 13, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Rotten 42%	The Last House on the Left (2009)	" A fascinating and confrontational horror film that deals with terrors a lot more chilling than some dude swinging a machete." — FEARnet Posted Mar 12, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 64%	Watchmen (2009)	" A powerfully good film, one that takes a bunch of familiar ingredients, and whips them up into a stew you've never tasted before." — FEARnet Posted Mar 6, 2009
Fresh 3/5	N/A	Dead in 3 Days (2008)	" It's hardly among the best of the Dimension Extreme acquisitions, but it works well enough for a 90-minute time-waster." — FEARnet Posted Mar 5, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 80%	The Cove (2009)	" *I've seen hundreds of horror movies in my time, and I've never seen anything quite as disturbing as the final sequences of The Cove." — Cinematical* Posted Mar 3, 2009
Fresh 4/5	N/A	World's Greatest Dad (2009)	" A truly strange comedy that actually has a message hidden beneath its colorfully tacky exterior. Admirably twisted, too." — Cinematical Posted Mar 3, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	N/A	Good Hair (2009)	" The subject matter would still be fairly interesting without Rock's involvement, but the comedian brings a accessibility to the material that no amount of facts and figures can replace." — Cinematical Posted Mar 3, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	N/A	When You're Strange (2009)	" *Yank the narration straight out of the movie, telling the story in only songs and pictures, and When You're Strange* would be a much better film.*" — Cinematical* Posted Mar 3, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	N/A	Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)	" A damn good film, one that trades in harsh, dark material, but never loses sight of the true nature of humanity." — Cinematical Posted Mar 3, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 66%	Dead Snow (2009)	" *Although not exactly all that scary, Dead Snow* earns big points for enthusiasm, creativity, and a powerful devotion to all things ultra-splattery.*" — FEARnet* Posted Mar 3, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	N/A	The Killing Room (2009)	" One feels a sense of gratitude when a horror-thriller even bothers with unexpected divergences or surprises that feel relatively satisfying." — FEARnet Posted Mar 3, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 17%	The Lodger (2009)	" *Ready-made for 3am HBO viewing, The Lodger* is an unnecessary remake of a story that's already been covered more than enough times, thanks.*" — FEARnet* Posted Feb 17, 2009
Fresh 3/5	N/A	Feast III: The Happy Finish (2008)	" *Virtually mindless, unabashedly vulgar, and knee-deep in the childish side of the horror pool, Feast 3* is still a good deal of fun.*" — FEARnet* Posted Feb 17, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 26%	Friday the 13th (2009)	" The original isn't exactly Hitchcock, but the re-makers sure treat it that way." — FEARnet Posted Feb 12, 2009
Rotten 1.5/5	N/A	Against the Dark (2009)	" Every 15 minutes a few blood-covered stuntmen leap out from the shadows and get involved in some uneventful carnage. You'll hardly notice." — FEARnet Posted Feb 12, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Rotten 38%	Outlander (2009)	" A sci-fi action period piece with generous doses of horror, romance, picturesque scenery, second-hand costumes, and cliche as far as the eye can see. Interested yet?" — FEARnet Posted Feb 2, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 32%	Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)	" At least we're spared a lot of the "legacy this" and "prophecy that" stuff that slows down both of the previous Underworld adventures." — FEARnet Posted Feb 2, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 62%	Bronson ()	" Dark, intelligent and disturbing, supported by a force-of-nature lead performance and a clever screenplay." — Cinematical Posted Feb 2, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 80%	Black Dynamite (2009)	" One of those eminently quotable comedies that frat guys and movie geeks will come back to time and again." — Cinematical Posted Feb 2, 2009
Rotten 2/5	N/A	Brief Interviews with Hideous Men ()	" Feels like 25 very brief stage plays jammed together -- maybe five of which are worth sitting through." — Cinematical Posted Feb 2, 2009
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 15%	The Informers (2009)	" An ugly, blank slate of a film, one that feels like a rough outline for one of the better Ellis adaptations." — Cinematical Posted Feb 2, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 100%	Grace (2009)	" Covers the three essential bases of indie horror: It's scary, it's smart, and it pushes a few boundaries. An excellent debut for Paul Solet." — FEARnet Posted Feb 2, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 89%	Moon (2009)	" One of the most compelling sci-fi films of the past 20 years." — FEARnet Posted Feb 2, 2009
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 12%	The Unborn (2009)	" This stuff is scary in the same way that twelve random ingredients from your kitchen is soup." — FEARnet Posted Jan 10, 2009
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 15%	The Spirit (2008)	" Someone should have gotten Robert Rodriguez on the phone." — Cinematical Posted Dec 26, 2008
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 60%	Valkyrie (2008)	" Feels like a perfectly enjoyable mid-'50s war movie that's been re-made with only the finest in modern cinematic technology." — Cinematical Posted Dec 26, 2008
Fresh 4.5/5	N/A	Dead Set (2008)	" This is far and away one of the best zombie movies I've ever seen. And I've seen 'em all." — FEARnet Posted Dec 15, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 59%	My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009)	" On par with Chainsaw '03 and Dawn '04. No pretense, no delusions, just slick, basic stalk & shock mayhem with a 3-D coating that works unexpectedly well." — FEARnet Posted Dec 15, 2008
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 20%	The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)	" As a passable time-waster for hardcore sci-fi fans, the remake is certainly watchable enough. But then again ... most hardcore sci-fi fans will probably have the same problems I had with the movie." — FEARnet Posted Dec 15, 2008
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 65%	Quantum of Solace (2008)	" A rather solid action flick, but it's barely Bond." — Cinematical Posted Nov 16, 2008

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