movie-ku #52
To read? Not to read? Based on the bestselling book! The film stands alone…
Ron Livingston on ‘Holly’ and ‘Music Within’
Music Within A few weeks back I was all hot ’n’ bothered over the prospect of seeing two new movies in one week starring Ron Livingston. So you can imagine how much infinitely more, ahem, interesting it was when I managed to snag an interview with him about those films. Yes, interesting is the word. … more…
‘Holly’ is not “just a movie”
“It’s just a movie.” We movie critics here that a lot, usually when we’re being exhorted to relax, turn our brains off, stop overthinking things, and simply enjoy ourselves. But sometimes a movie isn’t just a movie, and isn’t intended merely for our entertainment. That’s obvious, sometimes, when we’re talking about activist documentaries like two … more…
still no ‘Doctor Who’
I know, I know… Look, um, it’s an experiment, see. I’m, er, trying to see how long I can go without posting new Doctor Who and Torchwood stuff before the Doctor shows up in the TARDIS to bring me back in time so I can post stuff on time and change history and no one’s … more…
something cool finally happened on ‘Heroes’…
My weekly recap of the new episode of Heroes is over on Film.com. How ’bout that Kensei dude, eh? Comment here if you like…
new on DVD: ‘Ratatouille,’ ‘Doctor Who: The Complete Third Series,’ ‘I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry’
See it: • Ratatouille [buy it]. From my review: Oh, but there is joy in this movie, this Ratatouille, this new marvel from Pixar and Brad Bird, whose babies I want to have, he’s so brilliant. Not easy joy: hard-won joy, the best kind, which comes from struggle and pain and sacrifice and almost losing … more…
movie-ku #51
First in a series: The perfect runtime: Kiddie fart jokes and slapstick? 86 minutes
‘Sicko’ on DVD today
Michael Moore’s incendiary diatribe Sicko lands on DVD today in a Special Edition, and you’re gonna wanna check it out. If you missed the film in theaters, don’t miss it now — it remains my No. 1 movie of 2007 so far for its audacity, its pertinence, and its necessity. Moore has an amazing capacity … more…
movie-ku #50
Early November The Christmas flicks onslaught starts Its assail, assail!
my week at the movies: ‘Atonement,’ ‘Love in the Time of Cholera,’ ‘The Kite Runner,’ ‘The Mist,’ ‘No Country for Old Men,’ ‘Honeydripper,’ ‘Southland Tales,’ ‘Fred Claus,’ ‘I’m Not There,’ ‘Everything’s Cool,’
Eleven movies between today and Thurday. Might find time to sleep somewhere in between. We’ll see. I’ve been hearing so many amazing things about Joe Wright’s Atonement [opens limited December 7], and hoorah! I’ll finally get a chance to check it out this week. Wright made that incredible version of Pride & Prejudice a few … more…
