The Blind Side (review)

‘Is this some sort of white guilt thing?’ one of Sandra Bullock’s ladies-who-lunch friends asks her Tennessee socialite after she informally adopts a homeless black teen…

trailer break: ‘Crazy Heart’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I love how the trailer notes that Jeff Bridges has been nominated for an Oscar four times… with the implication being that, Hey, this could be the fifth, and might even win him the damn thing. Fox Searchlight is certainly pushing Bridges and the film for awards … more…

Alice (review)

More’s the pity that it ends up feeling pointless and empty and humorless, for it starts off rather intriguing, this modern update of Lewis Carroll’s classic novel…

retro trailer: ‘Beneath the 12-Mile Reef’

Take a look back at an old trailer… Funny how half a century ago we were all excited about a new format you could see without “special glasses,” and here we are back to special glasses again. I love seeing those old trailers for how they highlight stars whose names mean absolutely nothing today. Robert … more…