Jindabyne (review)
With its cold brilliance and delicate aloofness, this is a movie you can hold aloft to recognize and examine its many intellectual facets in hard light, but it will never make you feel anything.
Gracie (review)
There’s not a lot wrong with this feel-good sports drama except that it’s much like the 873 other feel-good sport dramas we’ve seen this year. I like it anyway, for its go-girl spunk and tenderly solemn spirit.
Private Fears in Public Places (review)
Oh, I know I’m supposed to be ecstatic because it’s from French New Wave director Alain Resnais, but all I can think is that it should be called *Six Characters in Search of a Reason Why I Should Care.*
my charming readers
UPDATED: Somehow, the wonderful comments (see below) are making me think of this: I got the most delightful email from a reader in response to my post about Transformers and how I’m guessing I might not hate it like I typically hate Michael Bay’s movies. Since this reader chose not to post this in comments … more…
why Peter Jackson rules Hollywood, and I don’t
Film critics are often accused of being failed filmmakers. It’s no secret that I am, in addition to being a film critic, a failed (as yet) screenwriter. Granted, I haven’t put quite in the effort into writing scripts (as yet) that I have into writing film reviews, so I really can’t complain that my scripts … more…
America’s debt problem, America’s Iraq problem, and more: see the news on DVD
Watched the news lately? Your local 11 o’clock broadcast, a national cable network, whatever. Watched it? Did you learn more about Paris Hilton’s legal woes and which team made the playoffs than about real issues that impact you as an American, as a citizen of planet Earth, as a human being? Disgusting, isn’t it? Real … more…
sign of the apocalypse: I’m not dreading a Michael Bay flick
I saw the trailer for Transformers on a big screen for the first time this weekend, at a showing of Pirates of the Caribbean, and the groaning/ giggling reaction of the pumped crowd seemed to agree with me that this looks like the biggest-dumbest-movie-that’s-gonna-be-a-whole-lotta-fun ever made. And a geeky friend who was with me started … more…
slow commenting problem fixed!
Yea! It was an issue related to the anti-spam magic Movable Type has in play. Details and the fix are here, for those of you interested. I stumbled across this only accidentally, so other users of MT facing the same problem may be interested. Anyway, commenting should zip right along now. Let me know if … more…
I love my new widescreen HDTV
I spent a bit of time over the holiday weekend fiddling around with my new widescreen HDTV — it’s this one, if you’re really interested — and now I’m officially in high-def heaven. See, I’ve got supergenerous readers. David C. sent me a box of cables good for hooking up HD goodies, and my friend … more…
my week at the movies: ‘Knocked Up,’ ‘Once,’ ‘Away from Her,’ ‘Memories of Tomorrow,’ ‘Fay Grim,’ ‘1408,’ ‘Evening’
I hate, hate, hate this poster! What if this guy got you pregnant? I hate to sound like one of those awful anti-sex, anti-woman prudes, but just the concept of this flick is enough to make me concede they might have a point: If the idea of “this guy” fathering your child makes you want … more…
