Slipstream (review)
This is a tough one to talk about. On the one hand, it’s failure, maybe even a disaster. On the other hand, it’s so fascinating a failure that it’s worth seeing…
opening wide today: ‘Saw IV,’ ‘Dan in Real Life,’ ‘The Darjeeling Limited’
Saw IV The torture-porn franchise is back for its fourth outing, featuring yet more terrible young actors you’ve never heard of enduring bodily mutilation. Is beating a dead horse considered “cruel and unusual” punishment? (not screened for critics) Dan in Real Life Steve Carell is unlucky in love… again, plus he’s stuck with Dane Cook … more…
Dan in Real Life movie review: knocked down
If you can manage to get through Dan in Real Life without falling madly in love with both Juliette Binoche and Steve Carell, then you’re a better man than I am, Charlie Brown.
ode to Keith Olbermann
Keith wasn’t on last night. Oh, Countdown, MSNBC’s only show worth watching, was on, but no Keith. Who the hell does he think he is, anyway? Just because he had the chance to go to some silly baseball game — apparently it was an important one or something — we should be left Keithless for … more…
Something Like Happiness (review)
The movie of the month for November 2006 from Film Movement — the DVD subscription club that introduces viewers to indies and foreign films we’re unlikely to see anywhere outside of festivals; they’re available to the general public a year later — this Czech production is lovely in its harried, hard-won emotion and bitter eccentricity. … more…
movie-ku #39
Guess the movie character! (Starting you off with an easy one…) Straight outta Joisey More ways than one a rock star He’s the uber geek
Creature Comforts America: The Complete First Season (review)
Monotonous, repetitious… highlights the ordinary in the most banal way possible…
The Sarah Silverman Program: Season One (review)
Her schtick seems deliberately calculated to induce paroxysms of nerdy joy in a specifically juvenile segment of the male audience…
Art Show Down (review)
The goofy attitude and quick play is momentarily diverting, but the implied satire on the contemporary art market and artist subculture is one-dimensional, at best.
Jericho: The First Season (review)
The sprawling cast is all-Americana; the sprawling themes come as a direct slap in the face to the terrifying road America off the tube is heading down, a world of repealed civil liberties and constricted freedoms…
