The Citizen Kane of Awful

Love it or loathe it, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has earned a place in the history books. The largest release in Paramount Pictures history, twelve thousand copies covering 25 languages...

 “The Room is the Citizen Kane of bad movies.” – Ross Morin, Entertainment Weekly Nearly five years ago, we began The Citizen Kane of Awful, a series looking at the best worst films ever made. The...

The Room began with a dream, and a bundle of leather jackets. Tommy Wiseau set out to tell the story of Johnny, a hapless man struggling to keep his future marriage afloat, but in the process became a story in...

Leonidas. Atilla the Hun. Beowulf. Dracula. The Phantom. Gerard Butler has covered an impressive number of legendary figures in his 20-year career, wielding swords and growling in every century we have a...

Cast: Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria, Kevin Dunn Director: Roland Emmerich Writers: Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich Estimated Budget: $130 million US Gross: $136...

Cast: Benjamin Walker, Dominic Cooper, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Rufus Sewell Director: Timur Bekmambetov Writer: Seth Grahame-Smith Estimated Budget: $100 million US Gross: $116.4 million From the...

Cast: Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton Director: Tony Gilroy Writers: Tony Gilroy, Dan Gilroy Estimated Budget: $125 million US Gross: $113 million “There was never just one”, the...

  Close your eyes. Picture Egypt. What can you see? The golden sands of the desert, the glittering azure waters of the Nile, the sun reflecting off the wings of a 10ft tall falcon robot as it...

In Men With Brooms, a curling team reunites with the help of Leslie Nielsen, as they attempt to win the ‘Golden Broom’ tournament. Or, as the DVD blurb describes it: “A comedic journey which takes...

  David O. Russell’s Accidental Love, a long-gestating car crash of a production infamously daubed with a pseudonym of shame rather than Russell’s name, was screaming out for admission into the...

Now that a few years have passed since the Twilight phenomenon was at its peak, perhaps it’s possible to give the film adaptations a second chance, with the benefit of distanced objectivity. At least...

          Oh Jason Statham, with your bonce like an angry deodorant, gritting your teeth as you battle on with your contractually obliged five o’clock shadow,...

Mike Newell’s Love in the Time of Cholera is a trial and its two hours have sticky minutes. Certainly I am unable to watch it all in one sitting; it feels like a lifetime. Perhaps this was intentional in...

Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Stanley Tucci, Delroy Lindo, Richard Jenkins, DJ Squalls, Bruce Greenwood Director: Jon Amiel Writers: Cooper Layne, John Rogers Budget: $60 million Worldwide gross:...

Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew Director: Steve Binder, David Acomba Writers: Pat Proft, Leonard Ripps, Bruce Vilanch, Rod Warren, Mitzie...