The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (review)
Think *Free Willy* meets director Jay Russell’s own *My Dog Skip*…
Year: 2007
Honeydripper (review)
John Sayles’ latest movie, his 16th, is another wonder of beautifully observant cinema, a sneakily magical immersion in a lost place and time…
The Great Debaters (review)
Denzel Washington has done it before, so why wouldn’t he do it again?
movie-ku #98
What do critics know? We can’t even agree on Best films of the year (We’re all over the place…)
watch it: “The End of the World”
via Americablog (Technorati tags: End of the World)
movie-ku #97
Awards screeners cry: “Just one more before you make Your top 10 final!”
watch it: “Rudy Giuliani Ad Parody: For The Ladies”
(Technorati tags: Rudy Giuliani)
movie-ku #96
Reshuffle the discs Floor to shelf to floor. When will I watch all of them?
opening wide this week: ‘National Treasure: Book of Secrets,’ ‘Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story,’ ‘Charlie Wilson’s War,’ ‘P.S. I Love You,’ ‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’
National Treasure: Book of Secrets Nicolas Cage as Indiana Jones? I still don’t get it, but apparently his first outing as a treasure-hunting dude was popular enough to warrant a second. But where’s his fedora? How can he be an adventurer without a fedora? Or Nazis? Or Marion Ravenwood? I don’t get it. (my review) … more…
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street movie review: there will be blood
Just hearing a description of it, you have to think, my god, my god, *yes.* The twisted, separated-at-birth twins Tim Burton and Johnny Depp taking on Stephen Sondheim’s gory opera about a murderous barber? Who else would you give it to?
