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Update: A last-minute addition to my screening schedule this week: Happy-Go-Lucky [opens limited October 10]. This is the new one from Mike Leigh, who made the wonderful Vera Drake, though this one’s a comedy. It’ll be a selection at both the upcoming Toronto and New York film festivals. It’s another sloooow movie week for me, … more…
Not that that’s exactly a newsflash. The site 4/29truth.com has the scoop, but don’t click through if you haven’t seen the latest season of Battlestar Galactica, or you’ll get a whopping big spoiler. I tend to agree, however, with the commenter on this issue at Boing Boing (the post there is also a big spoiler) … more…
I’ve gotten links to this one from lots of you: Don LaFontaine, voice of movie trailers, has died at the age of 68. Oddly enough, I have absolutely nothing to say about this. Does that make me a bad person? I don’t mean I wished the man ill or anything, but the news of his … more…
via Americablog
Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… I like Mark Wahlberg. I think he’ll be considered one of the iconic actors of Generation X when movie historians look back 50 years from now. I don’t mean one of the best actors of our generation, but one of those who embodies the cynicism and … more…
To be. Oh yes, definitely to be. ’Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished for, Kevin Kline and the crazy Dane. His is the most powerful Hamlet I’ve seen yet: he’s mad-angry, not mad-crazy, and physically powerful with it. When he’s tossing Ophelia around in the get-thee-to-a-nunnery bit… wow. What’s even more astonishing about this … more…
obsession: still Doctor Who (most recent episode blogging: “Journey’s End”) boyfriend: David Tennant as the Doctor (see my summer of Tennant and Hamlet) psyched: Burn After Reading (because the Coen Brothers are gods) dreading: Bangkok Dangerous (because it won’t screen for critics, and the Thai movie it’s based on wasn’t so hot, either) enemy: Anna … more…
It’s a terrible pity that this ensemble drama about people hurting and coping in small-town America is so relentlessly dull.
Oh no! The Bratz star in their first movie musical Bratz: Girls Really Rock featuring eight new dance along, sing-along songs! Lights! Camera! Action! Yasmin, Cloe, Jade and Sasha are off for the summer of their lives as they take the stage at Camp Starshine, an elite performing arts camp where acting, dancing and fashion … more…
A simple story, told totally visually. I love it:
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