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See it: • Talk to Me [buy it]. From my review: I’m not grading on a curve when I tell you: See Talk to Me if you want to see two incredible actors at the very top of their game. Forget skin color: Don Cheadle and Chiwetel Ejiofor are two of the best actors of … more…
And more on revivals: Familiar old friend We come to wander in your Beloved places
It all sounds hopelessly sentimental, yet none of it plays out that way in *Martian Child,* for all that the potential for drowning the audience in melodrama was there.
Remember how oh-my-god cool it was to hear, all those years back, that Michael Mann, with his movie ‘Heat,’ was gonna get Al Pacino and Robert De Niro together onscreen for the first time? And then they were hardly together at all except for that one scene, but it turned out to be okay because that one scene was incredible?
Pretty much this, in poetry form… Mourn the revival DVD put to rest the Joy of mass worship
Time magazine has named its Top 25 Horror Movies, and for a publication not exactly known as a bastion of all that is hip and cool, the list is surprisingly adventurous. (Fair warning: Time.com has organized the list in such a way that you cannot see the entire list or navigate it easily: you have … more…
I love DVDs, I love my widescreen TV, I love that the movie experience in my living room just keeps getting better and better. But every once in a while — too rarely, these days — I get a reminder of what we lost when movies came home. Revivals. I’m just old enough to have … more…
Cuz it’s just ads, ads, ads everywhere these days… The preshow hard sell Mechanics of film commerce Like watching TV
TV advertising just keeps getting more and more intrusive. We’ve learned to put up with bugs in the corner of the screen, bugs that dance across the screen, and now, last night on Heroes, was the first example I’ve seen of what looks a helluva lot like a Web banner ad: The damn thing is … more…
It’s John Cusack, and that would be enough for me, because I’m one of that generation of women who has been ruined for romance forever by Say Anything…. But Martian Child [opens wide November 2] also has a geeky science-fictional bent, too: Cusack plays an SF writer, a widower, who adopts a troubled kid who … more…
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