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I’ll be spending part of Saturday and most of Sunday at The Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival at the American Museum of Natural History here in New York. The festival features films of an anthropological bent, usually documentaries, but not necessarily. Tickets are usually still available at the door; see the full schedule at … more…
Yes, this is the Ang Lee movie notoriously rated NC-17 for, ahem ‘explicit sexuality’ — no children admitted in the name of American squeamishness!
The films of the After Dark Horrorfest — playing at a little over 300 theaters this weekend and running through November 18 — were not screened for critics, but I did see one of them at the Tribeca Film Festival this spring: Mulberry Street. Check out my review here. Could the rest of the Horrorfest … more…
Fred Claus Vince Vaughn is Santa’s wisecracking, screwup of a brother who crashes the North Pole just before Christmas and makes himself generally unwelcome. No, seriously: that’s what the movie is about. Honestly, no kidding. (my review is here) Lions for Lambs Senator Tom Cruise has the solution for fixing the Middle East! He lost … more…
The Writers Guild of America — the people who first create the television shows and the movies that you love — are on strike. They’re on strike because the networks and the studios treat them like shit, treat them like their contribution is incidental to the production of shows and films that fine people like … more…
A moment in time A smooch, a scream, a si-igh Film infinity
How do you solve a problem like America? Where do you even start? Everything — the war, the demagoguery, the blanket repeal of civil liberties, the whole big mess — seems so entrenched and so intertwined that it’s paralyzing. I’m so hopeless these days that things will ever get better, to the point where I’m not sure I can take yet more rehashing of the fiasco.
It’s got… something, this silly flick that’s just a little bit profound in its goofiness, this wonderland of schtick that touches on the dark flipside of all the ho-ho-ho and enforced jolliment of the Holiday Season(TM).
To read? Not to read? Based on the bestselling book! The film stands alone…
Music Within A few weeks back I was all hot ’n’ bothered over the prospect of seeing two new movies in one week starring Ron Livingston. So you can imagine how much infinitely more, ahem, interesting it was when I managed to snag an interview with him about those films. Yes, interesting is the word. … more…
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