Jimmy Carter Man From Plains (review)
It’s exhausting just watching the 80-something former president do his thing.
The Perfect Holiday (review)
Picking the single dumbest element in this extremely dumb movie is easy.
movie-ku #85
Because it seems like The Golden Compass is turning into fool’s gold: Movies for dummies: Two-hundred-mill-plus budget? It can’t help but flop…
my week at the movies: ‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,’ ‘P.S. I Love You,’ ‘Charlie Wilson’s War,’ ‘Cassandra’s Dream,’ ‘Taxi to the Dark Side,’ ‘Teeth’
Tim Burton and Johnny Depp do Stephen Sondheim in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street [opens December 21]. This one has been screening in NYC for at least a couple of weeks, and almost to a one, every critic who’s seen the movie whom I’ve heard speak about this one has called it … more…
watch it: “One Big Union”
Because it cannot be hammered home often enough — members of the striking WGA are not Hollywood fatcats: Via Daily Kos. (Technorati tags: One Big Union, WGA strike)
movie-ku #84
Such a heartless tease: “Preorder your DVD!” But I want it now…
Interview (review)
I can’t get on the Sienna Miller bandwagon. I can damn with faint praise: she’s perfectly competent as an actor — but that’s it.
December Boys (review)
This pleasant coming-of-age tale is mostly notable for one of its young stars: ‘Harry Potter’’s Daniel Radcliffe…
Border Cafe (review)
The Iranian film industry has produced some of the most beautiful films made on planet Earth in recent years…
The Young Ones: Extra Stoopid Edition (review)
The image looks its age and the sound is resolutely mono, but this 1982-4 BBC sitcom broke such important ground on both sides of the Atlantic that is should be considered essential viewing for anyone who wants to understand the changes television went through in the 1980s.
