movie-ku #35
It’s Monday, which means the weekend box office numbers are out, and getting spun by the studios… Smash hit? What if those One million folks this weekend In fact hated it?
Gone Baby Gone (review)
It’s no rare thing that a film gets buzz for its director. It’s a rare thing when that director has never made a film before. It’s an even rarer thing when the film by that first-timer turns out to be as astonishingly confident and shrewd as actor-turned-director Ben Affleck’s *Gone Baby Gone.*
Reservation Road (review)
Powerful and pitiful performances make this a must-see for fans of stars Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Ruffalo…
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “New Earth”
Lying on his coat, on the applegrass, gazing at the ridiculously romantic skyline of New New York, that’s the time, Rose. I want to shout at her, at that moment, every time I watch this episode: “Kiss him, you fool!”
movie-ku #34
In honor of Gone Baby Gone, which I really like, and so does everyone else: Who’da thunk Affleck Could escape Damon’s orbit To kick movie ass?
movie-ku #33
Screening rooms: movie Theater minus all the Hassle… and the snacks
‘Viva Laughlin’ throws snake eyes
Earlier in the fall I suggested that Viva Laughlin, which debuted last night on CBS, would be the new show “most likely to make me cry and go running to finally buy a region-free DVD player,” because it’s a remake of the BBC miniseries Blackpool (called Viva Blackpool when it aired on BBC America), and … more…
opening wide (or almost) today: ‘30 Days of Night,’ ‘The Comebacks,’ ‘Rendition,’ ‘Gone Baby Gone,’ ‘Things We Lost in the Fire,’ ‘Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour,’ more
30 Days of Night When the sun goes down in the Arctic for a month-long night, the vampires come out to play. I’ve heard of creatures being coldblooded, but this is ridiculous. (my review is here) The Comebacks This spoof on feel-good sports movies posits a ragtag football team on track to win the big … more…
bias alert!: new obsession, new boyfriend: ‘Life on Mars’ and John Simm
Also, still psyched for the new Coen Brothers, still dreadin’ the new Robert Zemeckis, still hatin’ Ben Stiller’s obnoxious Heartbreak Kid…
Rendition (review)
Okay, maybe it’s a tad too Hollywoodized. Maybe the ending is a tad too upbeat, a tad too facile to be satisfying or even believable in a story based so closely on horrific reality. But maybe that’s okay for the moment.
