Hairspray (review)
*Hairspray* couldn’t be more charming and joyous, more get-up-and-dance toe-tapping, more simply agreeable. If bringing Broadway to the masses works this well, well, why the hell not?
Year: 2007
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (review)
Can the occasion of overgrown-fratboy goofball Adam Sandler and resolutely vanilla sitcom dad Kevin James in fagface be anything other than an invitation to laugh at icky queery flamboyant homos?
indie SF movies
“Science fiction” and “indie” don’t go together in the minds of many moviegoers … or in the minds of many filmmakers, either. Which is probably why there’s a relative dearth of non-Hollywood-produced SF films. When “sci-fi” means “big-budget,” as it usually does, that eliminates the small filmmaker from the equation. But that doesn’t have to … more…
doh! ‘Simpsons Movie’ won’t screen till mere hours before it opens
Word came down today from 20th Century Fox: press screenings of The Simpsons Movie will be on Thursday, July 26… the night before the film opens. And by “the night before,” I mean that the very multiplex in which I will see the film on Thursday evening will open the movie to public showings a … more…
torture porn, the tanking of ‘Captivity,’ and the dooming of ‘Sunshine’?
So, the torture-porn flick Captivity tanked at the box office last weekend — it couldn’t do better than No. 12, earning a pathetic $1.4 million. And after being such a misogynist pig about the film, After Dark producer Courtney Solomon is backtracking and spinning: “It’s overkill,” said Courtney Solomon, president of After Dark Films, which … more…
help her, Jeebus! ‘Saving Grace’ on TNT
I thought: Wow, this is gonna be cool. Here’s Holly Hunter as a rough, tough cop: she drinks too much, smokes too much, swears way more than cops on commercial television get to, sleeps with her married partner. She’s a mess — bad for Grace Hanadarko, major case detective in Oklahoma City, but great for … more…
new ‘X-Files’ movie next summer?
David Duchovny has been out and about promoting his new Showtime series Californication, debuting next month, which will, apparently, give viewers a completely unMulderesque Duchovny, one that may disturb fans who see him only as the snarky, dour FBI agent. Perhaps that’s why, along the way, the actor has been letting on that we may … more…
‘Chuck and Larry” two hours and 20 minutes long?
So sometimes I try to figure out when I’ll be able to get home after a screening — you know, like, should I set the TiVo for something I wanna watch, or will I be home in time before it starts? And so I just discovered that my Dreading flick, I Now Pronounce You Chuck … more…
my week at the movies: ‘I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry,’ ‘Charlie Bartlett,’ plus the week that was
I’m takin’ it easy at the movies this week: I’ve got only two screenings scheduled at the moment, and a couple of screener DVDs sitting around that I should check out. But that’s fine: I’ve got tons of reviews and other coverage to catch up on, like Rescue Dawn and Joshua, to name but two… … more…
