Bad Movie

If you're one of those who finds fault with any kind of movie, the creators of Bad Movie Night (www.hit-n-run.com) might be looking for you - as a reviewer.Bad Movie Night is a clearinghouse for reviews of bad movies and bad impressions of good movies. A movie can be an overhyped summer release or a 49-cent rental from the local video store.Bad Movie Night was created last fall on the night that movie buffs Ken Wilson, Chris Bjuland and Scott Murdock, of Kansas City, Mo., saw "I Know What You Did Last Summer."

Welcome to Adam Sandler World, a happy, stupid planet where director Dennis Dugan (Problem Child, Big Daddy) enjoys the status of a Hitchcock, and Sandler himself no longer needs to make an appearance. He can hire proxy Sandlers like David Spade (career ... OVER) and Jon Heder, who proves that his booger-and-bug-eating skills were ignored in Napoleon Dynamite. The Benchwarmers, the latest from Sand- ler's Happy Madison production banner, severely tests the maxim that "There's no such thing as a bad movie about baseball."

An Ellicott City ballet instructor convicted of sexually assaulting a young student was injured yesterday when his minivan collided with a box truck on Interstate 95 one hour before he was scheduled to appear for sentencing before a Howard County judge. Jose Anibal Macedo, 42, was driving north just south of Interstate 895 about 12:30 p.m. when he apparently pulled briefly onto the shoulder, state police said. He moved back into traffic and was hit by a delivery truck that had been behind him, state police said.

Bluegrass music The lowdown : The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will ditch the tuxedos for overalls when it goes bluegrass at Oregon Ridge Park on Saturday. The performance will feature slapstick humor. There also will be activities for kids, vendors and fireworks when the sun goes down. If you go : The park opens at 5 p.m. and the show begins at 8 p.m. Oregon Ridge Park is at 13401 Beaver Dam Road, Cockeysville. Admission is $16 for adults and $9 for kids under 12, in advance and $20 for adults and $10 for kids under 12, at the gate.

27 Dresses Rating -- PG-13 What it's about -- A woman who has spent her life being the "perfect bridesmaid" begins to wonder if love will ever find her, just as she meets a cynical, smart-mouthed newspaper wedding reporter. The Kid Attractor Factor -- Katherine Heigl and James Marsden are the bickering wedding-goers in this romantic comedy. Good lessons/bad lessons -- Hanging onto friendships means commitment, sacrifice and eventually wearing a very ugly dress. Violence -- None. Language -- Heigl, of Knocked Up, still remembers how to cuss.

Be Kind Rewind ends with a community get-together that's meant to be as up-with-people and ebullient as an Obama campaign stop. Too bad the movie tries to get there on a ragged wing and a doggerel prayer. Some of the smartest people around have been yearning so strongly for renewal that they take any skeptical or realistic jibe as a mortal slight. The only hope for Be Kind Rewind, a pathetic new piece of whimsy from the cult fantasist Michel Gondry, is that it taps into those inchoate expectations of change flooding the country.

There's a funny premise at the core of Are We Done Yet? Too bad the movie doesn't do much with it. A remake of the 1948 Cary Grant comedy Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, the film stars Ice Cube as Nick Persons, a newlywed father of two and would-be magazine publisher who moves his family to a big fixer-upper house in the country. The plot gets them away from the dangers of the city and gives everyone space to breathe, but gives short shrift to all manner of comic possibilities. Are We Done Yet?

You know you've got a bad movie on your hands when hardly anybody sees it, and it's still voted the worst film of the year. Jenny McCarthy's Dirty Love, a movie so bad that 40 of the 42 U.S. theaters in which it opened last September got rid of it after only one week, was the surprise winner of the Razzie for the worst film of 2005 during ceremonies Saturday night at Hollywood's Ivar Theatre. In winning the Razzie, Dirty Love was judged the worst from a list of cinematic dreck that included Son of the Mask, House of Wax, The Dukes of Hazzard and Deuce Bigelow: European Gigolo.

Are there any delights so sublime, so dependable, as those derived from watching -- and deriding -- a really bad movie? Not for Mark Colegrove, a founder and organizer of the monthly Mondo Baltimore film series . The first Thursday of every month, he and his fellow connoisseurs of cinematic dreck -- and we're talking films that are mind-numbingly bad, to the point where they may actually kill brain cells -- take over the Windup Space for...

If it were merely vulgar kitsch, then "Tales from the Crypt presents 'Bordello of Blood'" could be dismissed without much energy. Another bad movie with Dennis Miller? So what else is new?Well, there is something disturbingly new in "Bordello of Blood" perhaps worthy of contempt. In its climactic sequence, private shamus Miller breaks into the title structure and with an atomic squirt gun filled with holy water spritzes away a bunch of vampires in typically overwrought fashion.But decode the scene -- that is, strip away the narrative encryptions and reduce it to its essence, to its source of power, to its level of glee -- and you have something far more meretricious.