Aliens in the Attic (review)
So, this Ashley Tisdale person is famous for something, is she?
Year: 2009
retro trailer: ‘Laura’
Take a look back at an old trailer… “She’s day-ud, wrapped in plastic…” No, wait, that was the other Laura, Laura Palmer of Twin Peaks. Though David Lynch took a lot of inspiration from this classic 1944 movie. If you haven’t seen Laura, well, you’re in for a treat… “Every woman will feel that when … more…
Adam (review)
Perhaps it’s a little bit of victory, in an odd way, that this too-earnest, underemotional drama so perfectly apes its protagonist in how it cannot quite connect with anyone outside itself.
watch it: the 8/1/09 weekly address from President Barack Obama
Blah blah blah… So, I guess we’re never gonna hear, “Let’s string up the corporate bastards and greedy Wall Street weasels who got us into this mess,” huh?
old women are old, even when they’re not…
…sexism and the female film critic, how to be a misogyny consultant, and more. It’s yet another go-round of The Week in Women, my regular column over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Just the perfect thing for a beautiful Saturday morning, doncha think?
watch it: “Simon’s Cat ‘Fly Guy’”
Cats don’t mean to be destructive or disgusting — it just sort of happens:
screencap Friday: what the flick? #82
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: ‘Taking Woodstock’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Peace, love, and rock ’n’ roll? Heh. Even Woodstock was all about the money. Has Ang Lee found his new Tobey Maguire in Demetri Martin? I thought he was just that kid who was on The Daily Show a couple times, and now he’s in an Ang … more…
The Cove (review)
Think ‘guerrilla journalism.’
question of the day: Does ‘Harry Potter’ misrepresent journalism and newspapers?
A new study in the American Communication Journal frets that children are getting the wrong ideas about journalism and newspapers from Harry Potter. (The study looks at the books, but it applies to the movies as well.) The abstract: This framing study examines how author J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series of children’s books treats the … more…
