opening wide today: ‘Baby Mama,’ ‘Deception,’ ‘Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay’
Baby Mama Tina Fey is so terribly old that she must hire Amy Poehler, all of a year younger than her, to have her baby. Expect jokes about pregnancy-test pee sticks, pregnant women as fat, and pretty much anything else you can think of that takes all the magic and wonder and cuddly goodness out … more…
Sabrina: The Teenage Witch: The Complete Animated Series (review)
This horrendous early 70s throwback — and really, in this case, “early 70s” means “longing for the 50s” — is being marketed as some sort of hip retro cool thing…
Pearl Diver (review)
Here’s a rare treat for anyone looking to be surprised by a movie.
Bionic Woman: Volume One (review)
Really quite unbelievably dull… and mysteriously unfeminist, too.
The First of May (review)
As undemanding family fare goes, the best you can hope for is that you don’t want to shoot yourself when it’s over, and by that measure, this gentle if unprepossessing flick succeeds.
watch it: “‘Charlie Rose’ by Samuel Beckett”
The future of the Internet, a found-clip piece from filmmaker Andrew Filippone Jr.: via Very Short List (Technorati tags: Charlie Rose, Samuel Beckett)
Baby Mama (review)
Why don’t we get movies that acknowledge the deeply weird wonderfulness of all this chaotic and confusing and hilarious life stuff? Are there any adults anywhere today?
this week’s ‘Battlestar Galactica’ blog carnival
The carnival roundup for discussion of the most recent episode of Battlestar Galactica is up, guest-hosted this week by Len Neighbors at Athens Exchange. If you’re still wrapping your head around that ending and what it means for, well, everyone, here’s a good place to start trying to figure it out. (My discussion of the … more…
scenes from New York Comic Con 2008: costumes
It was nonstop Halloween at New York Comic Con, which featured some very serious costuming… like, on a level so professional it was easy to believe that really was a Jedi Knight or a Stormtrooper wandering the showfloor… (More after the jump…) Even superheroes get tired: These guys were from The Fedora Chronicles: Where else … more…
