Month: November 2009
question of the weekend: What’s your favorite way to spend a rainy Saturday?
It’s gray and rainy and cold here in New York today. I wish I didn’t have to go out. But I have to go to this press thing for the upcoming movie Everybody’s Fine — there’s a press conference with Robert DeNiro and Sam Rockwell, and I’m gonna interview the writer and director, Kirk Jones. … more…
November 13: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but you’re gonna be busy escaping the end of the world. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, did you see 2012 this weekend?” … more…
watch it: “Cat has a panic attack when his string is taken”
The cat crazy is brung: I love that the cat is called Michael…
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (review)
I’m not sure how a story like the one that unfolds in *Precious* can be anything other than the harrowing, painful, heartbreaking, explicit work that it is.
Women in Trouble (review)
Apparently, in Gutierrez’s mind, expanding the range of humanity available to women on film means they can be porn stars or prostitutes, they can be neurotic and indecisive, they’re all almost certainly suvivors of physical and emotional abuse, and they can be catastrophically dumb…
screencap Friday: what the flick? #97
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.
trailer break: ‘Clash of the Titans’ teaser
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I guess this is cool and all, but why does it feel really familiar? Should I have been getting flashes of The Lord of the Rings from a story set in the ancient world? Maybe I’m just worn out from these kinds of movies. I’ll certainly see … more…
question of the day: Is ‘2012’ the end of the line for the disaster movie?
Roland Emmerich destroys the whole planet in 2012 — is there anywhere left to go after this? What’s left to be destroyed onscreen? These movies are always about one-upping the last one, but there doesn’t seem to be any one-upping left? I’m guessing that until there are cities with distinctive skylines and notable landmarks on … more…
watch it: 1940s Gallo wine commercial
I don’t mind telling you that I find this amusing:
