Posts by Dan Kois
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RazzieWatch: Who Will Win Worst Actor?
In predicting who might be nominated for Worst Actor, first you have to ask: What does the Golden Raspberry look for in its leading men? It’s a question that drives Razzie gurus crazy. Sometimes the winners of the Worst Actor award are megastars like Eddie Murphy, John Travolta, and Adam Sandler. Sometimes the winners barely […]
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RazzieWatch: Our Midyear Predictions
It’s hard to believe 2011 is already half gone! It seems like just yesterday that the cold of winter had descended upon us as we celebrated The Last Airbender and its five Razzie wins. But now we’ve finished off our Fourth of July hot dogs and legally purchased fireworks, and just as all the finest […]
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RazzieWatch: Dark of the Razzberry
It’s an unhappy Bay Day, RazzieWatchers. That’s right: For veteran bad-movie watchers like us, the biennial arrival of Bay Day is as good as Christmas. Whenever gleefully profane auteur Michael Bay sets another bombastic crapterpiece loose on the American public, we know what we’re in for: gigantic explosions, gleaming machines, perfect asses, great actors delivering […]
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RazzieWatch 2011: The Worst-Picture Race Begins
It’s June, which means that Hollywood is readying another buffet of crap. Endless superhero sagas, pointless remakes, a third Transformers movie — 2011 just might be the worst summer movie season ever. But a lousy summer for movie-watchers is a great summer for Razzie-watchers, because everyone knows that summer is Razzie season. The Razzies, of […]