Smokin’ Aces (review)
A steaming pile of meaningless, worthless, civilization-in-decline, orgy-of-violence, bread-and-circuses sign of the apocalypse…
Month: January 2007
Pan’s Labyrinth (review)
Holy ruby slippers, is this one grim film. Enthrallingly spooky, appropriately frightful, but grim. Grim like it might make the Brother Grimm, “Well, it’s a bit *dark,* isn’t it?” in an accusatory tone.
2006 best-ofs: best director, best cinematographer
I pick the year’s best directors and best cinematographers.
2006 best-ofs: best original screenplay, best adapted screenplay
My picks for the best scripts of 2006.
2006 best-ofs: best supporting actor, best supporting actress
I pick the best supporting roles of 2006.
more goodies over at Film.com
my regular Friday weekend preview “From Sundance to Stardom: The Coens, Soderbergh, and Rodriguez” (Sundance opened yesterday… and next year I hope to be there for it) “The End Is Nearer: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Prime-Time TV” and some chat about the seventh annual Cinemararti Awards, which have indeed just … more…
The Hitcher (review)
This isn’t a commentary on the breakdown of law and order, of civil society itself — it’s a symptom of it.
dvd mashup: Bandidas, meet Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Think Salma as Butch and Penelope as Sundance — there’s even an I-can’t-swim joke lifted wholesale from that classic film — but do ratchet down your expectations if you’re hoping for the kind of movie magic Newman and Redford gave us.
Notes on a Scandal (review)
Imagine ‘Single White Female’ as mounted by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and you’ve got it. Oh, snickered the critic longing for smart silliness, do I love this movie.
my postings at Film.com
Just a quick look at some of the latest: this week’s TiVo This! (which now runs from Thursday to Wednesday) some chat about the myteries of the Golden Globes my usual Monday-morning look at the weekend box office my despair over TV’s Lost The nice folks at Film.com promise me they’re working on 1) a … more…
