Astro Boy (review)
It’s creepy, and it’s weird, and it’s something like a mecha minstrel show, particularly in how the film pretends to a ‘robots are people too’ theme yet fails itself to treat them as such.
Year: 2009
trailer break: ‘Saw VI’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I guess we have to admire a little-engine-the-could franchise like the Saw movies. Every Halloween, like clockwork, there’s another one… Oh, we don’t have to admire it? Good. What does it mean that audiences can’t get enough of people being tortured, people being forced into situations in … more…
question of the day: Is ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ too dangerous for children?
I wondered in my review of Where the Wild Things Are whether the film wasn’t the beginnings of a shift away from overprotecting children from themselves and the world. After all, it offers a very dark portrait of the most secret workings of a child’s imagination, and it fully embraces of the fact that children … more…
watch it: “Philip”
Oh, this made me cry: (From testimony given for and against Maine’s marriage equality bill on April 22, 2009. Thanks to Ken for pointing this out to me.)
caption this! image from ‘Saw VI’
Fun for Wednesdays! We look at an image from an upcoming movie and write snarky, witty, or otherwise entertaining captions for it. No prizes, it’s just for fun. Saw VI — why does it feel like Saw XI? — will open on Friday without benefit of critics’ screenings. I know, shocking, right? Still, it’s not … more…
Paranormal Activity (review)
So I finally saw this Paranormal Activity flick that all the kids are into today, and all I could conclude was, Really? They think this is pants-wetting scary?
trailer break: ‘The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day’ redband trailer
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… “Peace, they say, is the enemy of memory”? Who says that? No, seriously, who says that? I’ll tell ya who: nobody: You see, this is what Catholicism does to people. Warps them. Twists them. Turns them into Troy Duffy, who throws crucifixes down in slo-mo and lets … more…
question of the day: Is ABC’s aerial stunt to promote ‘V’ worth getting our green panties in a twist over?
Lisa de Moraes in The Washington Post takes on ABC over an announced scheme to promote the about-to-debut series reboot of V: The next time ABC and its parent company Disney start thumping their chests about how they’re “going green,” please spit in their eye and remind them of Monday’s announcement that the broadcast network … more…
The Damned United (review)
I might not know from football, I do know people, and *The Damned United* is an absolutely thrilling story, one both hilarious and poignant, about a man who is downright classical in his flaws…
my week at the movies: ‘The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day,’ ‘Amelia,’ ‘Astro Boy,’ ‘Ong Bak 2: The Beginning’
I’m so not a fan of The Boondock Saints, the 1999 pseudo sorta cult flick, though it is one of the most hilariously bombastic bits of wannabe-Tarantino shit that I’ve ever seen. And Overnight, the tell-all documentary about what an ass writer-director Troy Duffy is, is a hoot and a half. So how could I … more…
