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Well, I was wrong. I guessed that the new AFI 100 — which was announced over three hours of clips and celebrity gushing last night on CBS — would be substantially the same as the old AFI 100. Boy, was I wrong. Only three films hold their original positions on the list: Citizen Kane (#1), … more…
Michael Winterbottom’s powerful and provocative new film is not a detective story, not a murder mystery, though it takes that format. It is about giving us an alarming portrait of the dangerous and strange new world we’re living in that most of us sheltered Americans can’t even conceive of.
Sure, this is pretty much an episode of ‘The Twilight Zone,’ but it’s a really, really *good* episode of ‘The Twilight Zone’…
My head wants to explode at the woman-hating hideousness of this.
There’s an undeniable gosh-darn golden-age charm to her and to these brisk and spirited adventures.
Actually deals in a refreshingly frank way with the wide variety of adolescent experiences, from making mistakes about having sex to coming to terms with religious faith. Still, it’s likely to appeal only to teens…
Time magazine was also at yesterday’s press conference… or was it? All the quotes in this piece up today on Time.com are from the very same press conference I attended. Granted, celebs tend to say pretty much the same things at many of these PR events, but these quotes are precisely the same. But then … more…
Speaking of piracy and Sicko… My Film.com buddy Cargill makes a point I’ve been trying to make for ages: While the big boys spend tons of scratch frisking and wanding film critics who come in to see the film early, hoping this will in some way prevent piracy, films like this keep getting screwed. From … more…
I attended a press conference yesterday with Michael Moore — he was there to promote, of course, his new film, Sicko, and all we journalists were there to listen to him. (The newspaper The Australian had someone there “at New York’s plush Regency Hotel on Park Avenue,” too, it seems, and makes it sound a … more…
A commenter on my review of Knocked Up recently voiced the opinion that film critics are pampered by studios, showered with gifts and opportunities to hang out with movie stars, that that this is why dumb movies get great reviews. Now, I have no doubt that some of the kind of thing is going on … more…
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