movie-ku #27
Reporter’s notebook Critics scribble in the dark Notes that can’t be read
opening wide today: ‘We Own the Night,’ ‘Elizabeth: The Golden Age,’ ‘Michael Clayton,’ ‘The Final Season,’ ‘Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married,’ ‘Across the Universe’
We Own the Night That thin line between cops and criminals goes right down the middle between “brothers” Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg. They’re fighting over drugs and clubs in 80s New York now, but I’m looking forward to their brawl over Best Supporting Oscar nods come January. (my review is here) Elizabeth: The Golden … more…
We Own the Night (review)
So drenched in raw, ineffable male anger and love, so perfectly pitched, that it howls with authenticity.
Michael Clayton (review)
You sell out and you sell out and you sell out until you can’t do it anymore. And that’s when things gets interesting.
movie-ku #26
Star wars on weekends Who will be the biggest draw? Monday’s numbers loom
Simon Pegg to play Scotty in new ‘Star Trek’ movie
Or so Sci Fi Wire is reporting this morning. I am a happy, happy girl today.
movie-ku #25
Sit in the middle The wide screen fills your vision Outside goes away
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (review)
Torture! Intrigue! Sex! Treachery! Holy war! Cate Blanchett in royal drag! Clive Owen in pirate drag! We are highly amused. If 10th-grade history was as much fun as this, no one would ever cut class.
what does God need with a starship? atheism and nonbelief on DVD
The conventional wisdom among conservatives is that Hollywood is liberal and godless… but just try finding a movie coming out of the studios that features a real, live, out-of-the-closet, honest-to-, well, God atheist. You might have to go all the way back to 1929, to Cecil B. DeMille’s last silent film, The Godless Girl, an … more…
the sick ‘Saw IV’ Chamber of Torture promo
I’ve gotten into arguments with other critics who don’t like the term torture porn — they think it’s demeaning to the films it is deployed against, which astonishes me, because I can’t imagine how mere words describing the content of a movie could be more demeaning than the content itself. And I think here we … more…
