Month: October 2008

W. (review)

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Surely this is the greatest satire of the American presidency ever made for film. It’s kinda like *Being There,* but far more terrifying: instead of a wise, gentle idiot becoming president, here it’s an incurious, perpetually adolescent idiot who ascends to the highest office in the land. Surely this would be a horror story if it were true…

it’s true what they say about England

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The food is terrible: The weather is atrocious: The people are rude: Not the best photo ever, that second-from-bottom one, but it’s me and my travel pal Bonnie in the middle sandwiched by David, on the far left, and Harry, on the far right, bartenders at Bar Room in Stratford-upon-Avon, which we decided to make … more…

trailer break: ‘Easy Virtue’

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Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Based on a Noel Coward play, and starring Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes (the cutie Prince Caspian), Kristin Scott Thomas, and Colin Firth? How long will we have to wait to see this in the U.S.? Easy Virtue opens in the U.K. on November 7; no U.S. … more…

screencap Friday: what the flick? #41

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Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from one of the DVDs in my collection (and it’s definitely from a movie, not a TV show). Guess the movie for fun and, well, fun. No prizes, just bragging rights. But hey: one guess per comment — no fair hogging all the guesses.

Happy-Go-Lucky (review)

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The London schoolteacher Poppy is the most annoying movie character ever, some are saying. Wait till the awards season really ramps up and some major critic group names Sally Hawkins the best actress of 2008.

bias update

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obsession: awards season (though I’m kinda dreading the huge quantity of movies demanding to be seen between now and December 31) boyfriend: Lee Pace in Pushing Daisies (cuz he’s just the cutest thing ever) psyched: Synecdoche, New York (I am so ready for another Charlie Kaufman mindfuck) dreading: An American Carol (because watching the implosion … more…

‘Life on Mars’: still sucking hard

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[spoilers] A shot of modern Manhattan bereft of the World Trade Center, with “an island never cries” on the soundtrack? Are they kidding? This is the American Life on Mars’ idea of… what? Irony? Pathos? Look, I still get weepy when I happen across some logo for a dry cleaners or a deli or garbage-hauling … more…