watch it: “Bill Maher on France”
What Bill Maher said: via Americablog
Happy-Go-Lucky (review)
The London schoolteacher Poppy is the most annoying movie character ever, some are saying. Wait till the awards season really ramps up and some major critic group names Sally Hawkins the best actress of 2008.
bias update
obsession: awards season (though I’m kinda dreading the huge quantity of movies demanding to be seen between now and December 31) boyfriend: Lee Pace in Pushing Daisies (cuz he’s just the cutest thing ever) psyched: Synecdoche, New York (I am so ready for another Charlie Kaufman mindfuck) dreading: An American Carol (because watching the implosion … more…
this is what ‘Life on Mars’ looks like
These are mostly for me, to calm me down and remind me that no matter what ABC and Jason O’Mara and Harvey Keitel do to their Life on Mars, I’ll always have the real, proper Life on Mars to treaure and enjoy.
‘Life on Mars’: still sucking hard
[spoilers] A shot of modern Manhattan bereft of the World Trade Center, with “an island never cries” on the soundtrack? Are they kidding? This is the American Life on Mars’ idea of… what? Irony? Pathos? Look, I still get weepy when I happen across some logo for a dry cleaners or a deli or garbage-hauling … more…
The Secret Life of Bees (review)
The secret life of bees? More like the secret life of women. The bee thing, it’s a metaphor, see, for how half the human race lives shrouded in mystery and darkness and, I guess, sweetness and honey.
‘Pushing Daisies’ blogging: “Bad Habits”
(previous: Episodes 1/2: “Bzzzzzzzzz!”/“Circus, Circus”) Do you smell pie? I smell pie. Mmmmm, pie… [spoilers after the jump!] Goodness. Nuns talking about sex? A dead nun who had talked about sex? A suicided dead nun who had talked about sex? A suicided dead nun who had talked about sex who swears like a sailor when … more…
British box office: ‘The House Bunny’ ain’t so dumb after all…
My experiment with exploring global box office numbers continues. I think I’ll eventually start looking at numbers beyond North America and the U.K., but I’m trying to get a hold on what the U.K. box office numbers mean first. British numbers are not as readily available as North American ones, but it seems that the … more…
dream cast: hypothetical ‘Max Headroom’ remake
It’s Thursday, so it’s time to remake an 80s classic TV show or movie with an all-new cast. This week: Max Headroom, the brilliant 1987-8 American TV series that introduced cyberpunk concepts to a mainstream audience more than a decade before The Matrix… or would have, if anyone had watched it. (If you have a … more…
trailer break: ‘The International’
Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Ooo, bank rage! Clive Owen will solve the global financial crisis for us! How can this not be a huge hit… assuming any of us can afford to go to the movies in 2009? The International opens in the U.S. on February 13, 2009, and in … more…
