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Oh please please please let Be Kind Rewind [opens limited February 22] totally rock. How could it not? It’s Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) off on what sounds like another wacky, geeky, self-referential, pop-culture-snarking lark. Jack Black — who’s been growing on me of late — and Mos Def — who never … more…
Tilda Swinton, nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Michael Clayton, has never been nominated for an Oscar before, but she did win a Golden Space Needle Award for Best Actress from the Seattle International Film Festival for her performance in 1992’s Orlando. (Click the DVD for a quote from her character.) (Buy … more…
Speaking of doing 18 different jobs here… I was up literally all night doing some tweaking to the backend of the site, fiddling around with PHP includes and other stuff that I hoped would help solve a hugely frustrating problem I’m having with Movable Type rebuilds hanging midjob. (That won’t mean anything to anyone who … more…
Meet artist Noah Scalin of Skull-a-Day: (Technorati tags: Skull-a-Day, Noah Scalin)
If ‘Northanger Abbey’ isn’t minor Austen, then you’d never guess it from this tepid adaptation…
‘I don’t know what it is about you, but the more you talk, the more you give me the willies.’ So says one of the James gang to Robert Ford, whose syrupy-sweet quality we recognize today as the unctuousness of a stalker…
I apologize in advance to everyone who’s not a Doctor Who fan. This show is the genesis of my geekiness, and I will never tire of it, and so here, for all those who feel the same way that I do — that Doctor Who is the pinnacle achievement of human civilization — is the … more…
Viggo Mortensen, nominated for Best Actor for his performance in Eastern Promises, has never been nominated for an Oscar before, but he did share an award for Best Cast from the Screen Actors Guild for 2003’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. (Click the DVD for a quote from his character.) … more…
I’m constantly getting emails from people who want me to identify that one movie they saw once starring that guy whose name they can’t remember but he was in that other movie the name of which has slipped the mind but that girl from that TV show was in it too, or want to know … more…
Ruby Dee, nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in American Gangster, has never been nominated for an Oscar before, but we’ll never forget her performance in 1989’s Do the Right Thing. (Click the DVD for a quote from her character.) (Buy Do the Right Thing at Amazon.) (Read my review of American Gangster.) … more…
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