daily list: 5 reasons why there are no girls in the movies

New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis wants to know, Where are all the chicks at the multiplex this summer?: Nowhere is our irrelevance more starkly apparent than during the summer, the ultimate boys’ club. Over the next few months the screens will reverberate with the romping-stomping of comic book titans like Iron Man and … more…

Speed Racer (review)

Only by the end — when it suddenly turns ‘intense’ and ‘dramatic’ — does it become so bad it’s laughable, and by that point, I just wanted to cry…