finished ‘Life on Mars’

Head exploding in slow motion. I feel like I need to throw up. And for some reason, I can’t stop crying. Must blog about the show — after I watch it all again just to try to get my head around it — but it’s gonna be tough to talk about it without spoiling it … more…

Lars and the Real Girl (review)

*Ooo, ick* was my reaction when I first heard about *Lars and the Real Girl.* Because I had, unfortunately, heard about Real Dolls, the anatomically correct sex toys that are as lifelike as silicone can be. Which means they look like corpses. And the thought of a movie about a lonely guy who buys one of them and pretends it’s his girlfriend? No. No no no no.

Lust, Caution (review)

Yes, this is the Ang Lee movie notoriously rated NC-17 for, ahem ‘explicit sexuality’ — no children admitted in the name of American squeamishness!

After Dark Horrorfest: ‘Mulberry Street’

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…

why the Hollywood writers strike matters

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…

Lions for Lambs (review)

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.