The Kids Are All Right (review)
Funny and smart and poignant and real and universal. It’s one of the best movies about family I’ve ever seen…
deep thought (re Lindsay Lohan)
I do not care to hear what Lindsay Lohan thinks about her prison sentence.
wtf: ESPN lets LeBron James dictate the news, ScienceBlogs lets Pepsi dictate science…
Are there any real journalists left anywhere? And does anyone care? Tonight, ESPN will turn over an hour of its airtime to an athlete — basketball player LeBron James — so he can announce which team he’ll play for next season. I’m not any kind of sports fan, but I was under the impression that … more…
trailer break: ‘The Girl Who Played with Fire’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… The more I think about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the more I like it. I hope the sequel does not disappoint. A new director — Daniel Alfredson — has taken over for this and the final film. At least the cast remains the same. The … more…
question of the day: Are you suspicious when a studio tailors screening access to a film, as has happened with ‘Inception’?
We’re all familiar with this kind of situation: A studio has a stinker on its hands, so it frontloads the critical response by showing the film, weeks before it opens, to quote whores, entertainment “journalists” who aren’t critics but get their subsequently rapturous reactions splashed across posters and TV ads anyway. You know, they’re the … more…
watch it: “Make Mine Freedom (1948)”
Yeah, it’s a bit dated. I doubt anyone today would want to hear that things were actually pretty awesome during the Great Depression. And it’s both laughable and sad that it’s promoted as a good thing that Americans drive more cars than anyone else on the planet. We rock! Until the oil runs out! But … more…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Terry Pratchett doesn’t understand the essential whatsit of ‘Doctor Who’
Or he does, but he doesn’t realize he does. I’ve been meaning to post this for a while but kept putting it off because I couldn’t quite put my finger on what’s wrong with it. But I’ve just figured it out. See, back in May, fantasy author Terry Pratchett wrote an essay for SFX about … more…
wtf: film critic reviews ‘Inception’ without seeing it, doesn’t understand why this is a problem
Sometimes a WTF moment is so jaw-droppingly WTFish that you have to stop, back up a step or two, cock your head like a mystified puppy getting its first look at the most awesomely balliest ball ever — like you can’t believe how perfectly inexplicable the excellence of its roundness and the fineness of its … more…
me on Movie Review Intelligence
I am delighted to announce that starting with this week’s new releases, my reviews will be featured at Movie Review Intelligence. MRI is a review aggregator similar to Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, though it uses a somewhat different metric to award overall grades. Like Metacritic, its selection of critics is quite selective, and it’s a … more…
Despicable Me (review)
Better than *Toy Story 3.* Really.
