trailer break: ‘Green Zone’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon together again? Excellent. It’s The Hurt Locker meets The Bourne Supremacy. How can it go wrong? Is it just me, or shouldn’t Matt Damon finish up “I came here to find weapons and save lives” with “and I’m all out of gum”? … more…

The Wolfman (review)

The metallic tang of blood is all over the elegant facade of this mysteriously disappointing, dispassionately underpowered story of a British aristocrat who dances with the devil, in the form of a werewolf curse, in the pale moonlight.

because social commentary has no place in comics

Marvel Comics has caved to right-wing whingers who don’t like that their behavior — calling Obama a Muslim terrorist socialist who isn’t even an American citizen; engaging in cluelessly and hence hilariously hypocritical protests (“government hands off my Medicare!”) — makes them prime targets for satire, as a recent Captain America story targeted them, according … more…

Snowpocalypse 2010! the Bronx edition

Someone wanted to know what Snowpocalypse 2010 was like up in my corner of the Bronx, so I wandered around and took some photos this afternoon. It’s not like the winter wonderland images of snow-blanketed Manhattan you see in the movies. When it snows in NYC, it’s pretty for about 10 minutes, and then it’s … more…

trailer break: ‘Inception’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… That image of the city folding in on itself is one of the most mindblowing things I’ve seen on film. The notion of “stealing an idea” is surely going to take on a whole new meaning when it’s the guy — Christopher Nolan — who created Memento … more…