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opening wide Public Enemies: It’s the Miami Vice of its day, except everyone’s wearing sharp three-piece suits instead of pastels and loafers. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Like Jurassic Park meets The King of Queens, except the stupid sitcom dad doesn’t get eaten by dinos. Damn. opening limited I Hate Valentine’s Day: Nia Vardalos … more…
I wonder what John Adams and Thomas Jefferson would think of the current U.S. government, which is of, by, and for extralegal global corporations. I mean, the “health care reform” that Obama is saying “must happen this year” has, so far, been geared toward making sure the for-profit insurance companies are allowed to keep doing … more…
…misogynist vampire stories suck, Tilda Swinton takes the cinematic highroad, and more. It’s The Week in Women, my regular doings over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Enjoy, and for all my readers in the U.S., happy Fourth of July. To everyone else, happy Saturday.
Public Enemies: Fedoras and running boards… nice. How come Great Depression II ain’t as stylish? Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: There’s an entirely new kind of barf joke here, so that’s something, I guess. Kambakkht Ishq: Rom-com about a Bollywood stuntman in Hollywood. He falls in love with Sandra Bullock, doesn’t he? [official site] … more…
Iz LOLcats, but iz YooToob? Mi hed iz splodin. Iz cat video Friday iz wut it iz.
And runs all week. Rumor had it that it was going to air almost simulanteously in the U.S., but clearly, this is not happening: it debuts on BBC America on July 20th. I shan’t be waiting that long to check it out, of course. Not that my stupid cable company carries BBC America anyway. And … more…
“Whatever criticism is, it is not a democracy.” —Jonathan Jones, Guardian art critic
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Well, Vera, obviously there is something wrong with being different. We’ll never guess her secret? Oh, pul-leeze. She’s Satan’s slave. She’s Carrie’s clone. No, wait, she’s Damien’s child! And she killed Damien, and that’s why she’s an orphan! No? Not scary anymore? We need something more modern … more…
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.
Isn’t this like having Quincy Jones review music? Or Catherine de Medici review fine arts? Harvey Weinstein is reviewing movies, at Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast (that’s like Huffington Post, a refuge for all those poor celebrities with no other outlets for their voices, except the Beast does pay, as long as you sign away … more…
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