movie-ku #36

And since you didn’t get a haiku yesterday — I was somewhat distracted — here’s another, the first in a series about my recently renewed and deepened addiction to British television. Call it a TV-ku… When TV’s so good It makes you think of fil-um: Nirvana for geeks

movie-ku #35

It’s Monday, which means the weekend box office numbers are out, and getting spun by the studios… Smash hit? What if those One million folks this weekend In fact hated it?

Gone Baby Gone (review)

It’s no rare thing that a film gets buzz for its director. It’s a rare thing when that director has never made a film before. It’s an even rarer thing when the film by that first-timer turns out to be as astonishingly confident and shrewd as actor-turned-director Ben Affleck’s *Gone Baby Gone.*

movie-ku #34

In honor of Gone Baby Gone, which I really like, and so does everyone else: Who’da thunk Affleck Could escape Damon’s orbit To kick movie ass?

‘Viva Laughlin’ throws snake eyes

Earlier in the fall I suggested that Viva Laughlin, which debuted last night on CBS, would be the new show “most likely to make me cry and go running to finally buy a region-free DVD player,” because it’s a remake of the BBC miniseries Blackpool (called Viva Blackpool when it aired on BBC America), and … more…

opening wide (or almost) today: ‘30 Days of Night,’ ‘The Comebacks,’ ‘Rendition,’ ‘Gone Baby Gone,’ ‘Things We Lost in the Fire,’ ‘Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour,’ more

30 Days of Night When the sun goes down in the Arctic for a month-long night, the vampires come out to play. I’ve heard of creatures being coldblooded, but this is ridiculous. (my review is here) The Comebacks This spoof on feel-good sports movies posits a ragtag football team on track to win the big … more…