watch it: “Nelson George: London (February 2009)”
Nelson George: London (February 2009) from Nelson George on Vimeo. I was there in February too!
Year: 2009
‘Knowing’ versus ‘Left Behind,’ Part II
Completely spoiler-iffic.
trailer break: ‘The Damned United’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I don’t know much about football — the sport the rest of the world calls football, I mean, not what we Americans call football — and what I do know thrills me not one teeny bit. But I do know that Michael Sheen is a riveting screen … more…
question of the day: What can the Vatican hope to accomplish with a boycott of ‘Angels and Demons’?
Rumor has it the Vatican may be planning to announce a Catholic boycott of the upcoming film Angels and Demons, opening worldwide in May: Avvenire, the Vatican’s official newspaper, ran a story in Friday’s edition noting that the church “cannot approve” of such a problematic film. The Turin daily La Stampa, meanwhile, said the Vatican … more…
trailer break: ‘Adventureland’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… “Life after college”? I thought this was gonna be a life-after-high school thing. After college, and he’s not even qualified for manual labor? Now, the summer of 1987 was my first summer after high school, and the summer of 1988 was my first summer after dropping out … more…
question of the day: Does an on-demand DVD business make sense?
Warner Bros. this week launched the Warner Archive Collection, an on-demand DVD service that USA Today described this way: [F]ans eventually will be able to order any of the 6,800 theatrical features in the studio’s library not available on disc and receive a custom-made DVD within a week for $20. Only about 1,200 films in … more…
my week at the movies: ‘Adventureland,’ ‘The Haunting in Connecticut,’ ‘Fast & Furious’
Ai-ya, as the Chinese say. I’ve been dealing with something over the last 24 hours that I may or may not be able to tell you about eventually, but it has been eating my brain, not to mention my time. And I’m also contending with a non-movie-related project — due on Friday! — that is … more…
trailer break: ‘The Haunting in Connecticut’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… The message: Don’t sleep in the basement! Oh, you know, why don’t the dead just die already? Don’t they know they’re really pissing us off? Also: Connecticut? So not scary. Unless your talking about real estate prices in Greenwich. The Haunting in Connecticut opens in the U.S. … more…
Gomorrah (review)
Brutal and unrelenting, this documentary-style expose of the Naples equivalent of the Sicilian mafia burns away all hints of Hollywood glamour…
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Columbus Day’
This may be a perfectly acceptable movie, but the title leads me to doubt. Columbus Day? You don’t name a movie after a holiday unless you’re trying to glom onto that holiday’s mojo. Hence, we get a lot of movies about Christmas — that’s a holiday with mucho mojo. It’s why we don’t really see … more…
