Edward Havens
Tomatometer-approved critic
Edward Havens currently serves as the Publisher and Editor-In-Chief of FilmJerk.com. Since 1972, he has worked as an extra, actor, production assistant and assistant director on a number of feature films and shorts. He has also written several screenplays, none which were recently optioned. Edward likes kitties, ice cream, books with more words than pictures and DVDs with director's commentary. He blames Hunter S. Thompson, Lenny Bruce, Terry Southern, the collective members of Monty Python, Michael O'Donoghue, Lloyd Kaufman and Andy Kaufman for helping to shape his persona. He lives in his hometown of Los Angeles with his wife and pets.
Almost Famous, Bull Durham, A Matter of Life and Death
Hollywood, CA
http://www.filmjerk.com
Movies reviews only
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New York Ninja (2021) |
New York Ninja is one of those bad movies that's just bad enough to actually be entertaining. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Nov 04, 2021
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Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) |
Wonder Woman 1984 is not as entertaining or satisfying as its predecessor was in the summer of 2017, it's a good but flawed film that deserves better considerations. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Jan 25, 2021
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Promising Young Woman (2020) |
There is so much to recommend about this film. I just wish the ending matched the quality of the rest of the film. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Dec 30, 2020
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Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula (2020) |
The high-concept pitch for this movie would be to imagine Dominic Toretto from The Fast and the Furious series was dropped into Mad Max: Fury Road, which itself was dropped into World War Z. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Aug 21, 2020
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Cut Throat City (2020) |
With this third feature, RZA has grown more assured as a filmmaker. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Aug 21, 2020
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Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band (2019) |
This movie, and the band it covers, has affected me. My mind is racing with so many concepts, my heart and my soul overflowing with conflicted emotions. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Feb 22, 2020
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Buffaloed (2019) |
It's a pleasant enough distraction in a world overloaded with unpleasantness. And, sometimes, a pleasant enough distraction is good enough. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Feb 19, 2020
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Crying Fist (2005) |
While boxing movies are a dime a dozen, those with this kind of true emotional involvement do not come around all that often. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Feb 11, 2020
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VHYes (2019) |
Weird and creepy and funny and an exceptional social commentary on our society. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Jan 17, 2020
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Carmine Street Guitars (2018) |
Carmine Street Guitars is, essentially, about pure love. A pure love of a craft. A pure love of the music, and a pure love a city. A pure love of creation. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Apr 23, 2019
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The Burial of Kojo (2018) |
Like Coltrane or Brubeck, whose compositions were regularly equally tightly structured and wildly improvisational, playing with the conventions of what you expect from a certain genre. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Apr 08, 2019
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The Hero (2017) |
Watching Sam Elliott work [...] has been one of the great joys of entertainment, and never has he had a role quite like Lee Hayden, leading a movie quite like "The Hero." - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Feb 10, 2019
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The Other Side of the Wind (2018) |
'So, how was it?' my wife asked when I called her after the screening ended. 'There's a lot to unpack,' was the only reply I could think of at that moment. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Oct 31, 2018
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BlacKkKlansman (2018) |
BlacKKKlansman, after 21 feature films and 11 documentaries, is the film that shows what he's learned after thirty plus years behind the camera. BlacKKKlansman is the film Spike Lee was destined to make. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Aug 08, 2018
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RBG (2018) |
One's enjoyment of the new documentary "RBG" will probably be gauged by how well you know the titular subject. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted May 03, 2018
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The Last Movie Star (2017) |
When you've got "it", you've probably got it forever... [E]very once in a while, you might get offered something that will remind everyone that you still got it. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Mar 27, 2018
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The Female Brain (2017) |
Whitney Cummings is funny as hell. Usually. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Feb 06, 2018
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Overdrive (2017) |
While not a great movie, was quite a bit of fun, and better than any of the "Fast and Furious" movies they've been making for the past decade. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Oct 30, 2017
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Literally, Right Before Aaron (2017) |
Somewhere, down the line, some young would-be filmmaker will stumble on to this film on Netflix, see how something like this could get financed, and will become inspired to make their own movie for all the wrong reasons. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Sep 29, 2017
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Landline (2017) |
Let's face facts: no one really has a longing melancholy for the days of Blockbuster Video stores and eyebrow rings and Lorena Bobbett roller blades and slam poetry right now. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Jul 13, 2017
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Score: A Film Music Documentary (2016) |
A beautiful love letter to the movies and the people who help make them even more beautiful. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted May 05, 2017
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Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies (2008) |
Mary Pickford: Muse of the Movies deserves to be put on the list of not just the best documentaries about cinema but the greatest movies about the movies ever. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted May 02, 2016
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The Battered Bastards of Baseball (2014) |
Is to baseball what "Slap Shot" was to hockey. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Jul 10, 2014
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Life Itself (2014) |
I find myself borrowing from Ebert to call "Life Itself" one of the best films about an American life I could ever see. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Jun 30, 2014
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Dinotasia (2012) |
Plays like a series of cut-scenes from a 1997 PlayStation game. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Nov 05, 2012
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Bronson (2008) |
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| Posted Nov 04, 2010
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The Freebie (2010) |
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| Posted Oct 29, 2010
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Gilda Live (1980) |
To have another ninety minutes of Lisa Loopner and Emily Litella, with Judy Miller and Roseanne Roseannadanna and Candy Slice is a joy. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Nov 21, 2009
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2012 (2009) |
Why does Roland Emmerich enjoy killing off humanity? - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Nov 13, 2009
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Trick 'r Treat (2007) |
What keeps "Trick" from attaining its lofty "Creepshow" aspirations is the lack of conflict and resolution. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Oct 29, 2009
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Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) |
There's only going to be two camps concerning [This Is It]: those who will absolutely love it and those who wouldn't go to see it except under penalty of death. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Oct 27, 2009
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Taking Woodstock (2009) |
There is a great movie within Ang Lee's "Taking Woodstock." - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Aug 25, 2009
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Inglourious Basterds (2009) |
Amongst all the filmmakers working today, no one inspires more passionate discussion, debate and analysis than Quentin Tarantino. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Aug 21, 2009
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It Might Get Loud (2008) |
I apologize this is more a mash note than critical analysis. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Aug 14, 2009
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Cold Souls (2009) |
The easiest, and laziest, way to describe the new movie "Cold Souls" is to compare it to "Being John Malkovich." - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Aug 06, 2009
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Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008) |
If the thought of a new Brian Trenchard-Smith movie is more exhilarating than a new Bryan Singer movie... then Mark Hartley's "Not Quite Hollywood" is the film for you. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Jul 30, 2009
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Loren Cass (2006) |
We're presented a small slice of life with a group of wasted teens, expected to consider this to be somehow artistic and asked to be sympathetic for their malaise. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Jul 28, 2009
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ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction (2009) |
Has the potential to become a minor hit on the midnight film circuit with the help of a mid-level indie distributor. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Jul 22, 2009
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Humpday (2009) |
Sadly, the most interesting characters in "Humpday" are not the main focuses of the story. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Jul 10, 2009
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The Hurt Locker (2008) |
Bigelow has successfully built a vision of war rarely seen on screen, a visceral nearly first person perspective of war where the rush of combat is a welcomed relief. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Jun 25, 2009
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Away We Go (2009) |
For my money, the new dramatic comedy "Away We Go" is the first serious contender for Best Picture of the Year consideration. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted May 28, 2009
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Management (2008) |
To be completely honest, I was ready to walk out of the new Jennifer Aniston movie "Management" after ten minutes. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted May 15, 2009
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Rudo y Cursi (2008) |
Anyone who has spent any time watching movies about competitive brothers playing the same sport for different teams knows where all this is going to lead - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted May 14, 2009
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Outrage (2009) |
I'm guessing "Outrage" ultimately is meant to continue the discussion about equal rights for gay Americans, and in that sense the film does succeed. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted May 08, 2009
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All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006) |
Dumb kids doing dumb things for dumb reasons. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted May 06, 2009
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Official Rejection (2009) |
Can a little documentary about the less popular film festivals find a patron to give it the chance to find an audience? - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Apr 30, 2009
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The Spirit (2008) |
More interested in being a technical marvel than a coherent story. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Apr 29, 2009
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Adventureland (2009) |
Sometimes, a critic is going to connect with a movie, even one they can admit has some major problems, because it so mirrors their own expereinces. - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Apr 03, 2009
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Fanboys (2008) |
Probably the closest thing my generation will get to having its own "Diner" - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Feb 06, 2009
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Quantum of Solace (2008) |
Despite its faults, I can still say with relative assurance this is the best Bond film since "Thunderball." - FilmJerk.com
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| Posted Nov 14, 2008
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