Grindhouse: Planet Terror and Death Proof (review)
Two deliberately cheesy movies offered with a wink and a nudge and a whopping dollop of love and nostalgia.
over at Film.com…
I’m still plugging away over at Film.com, at least twice a day. Recent stuff you may have missed: • the new and improved TiVo This! • I preview Wednesday movie releases • I take on a promo for Fox’s new TV series Drive • British SF fans vote for Serenity as best SF film evah … more…
The Reaping (review)
Forget a plague of boils — how about a plague of boredom followed by a plague of oh-my-god-is-it-really-this-bad-for-women-in-Hollywood?
and that’s 2006 done!
Whew!
counting down the best films of 2006: No. 1, ‘The Science of Sleep’
WHY IS THIS THE BEST FILM OF THE YEAR?: When you see more than 200 movies every year, you see the same stories and the same characters over and over and over again, and the capacity of a film to surprise becomes infinitely more important. No film astonished and delighted — and surprised — me … more…
counting down the best films of 2006: No. 2, ‘Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan’
WHY IS THIS ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR?: Even moreso than the TV version of Borat pushed TV boundaries, this film challenges our perceptions of what a film can do, what a film should do. In an arena in which art is necessarily secondary to commerce, Sacha Baron Cohen proved that making … more…
counting down the best films of 2006: No. 3, ‘Children of Men’
WHY IS THIS ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR?: Current culture-wide fears and neuroses get transferred to a horrifying dystopian near future, and in the process, force us to recognize and reconsider how those fears and neuroses are at play in the here and now. For all its science-fictional setting and premise, this … more…
counting down the best films of 2006: No. 4, ‘Stranger Than Fiction’
WHY IS THIS ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR?: The remarkable combination of intense, intricate intellectualism and warm, grounded human emotion is so rare, and cause for celebration when it comes along. I can’t remember the last time I was so deeply affected by a film that so tickled my brain. BUT IT … more…
counting down the best films of 2006: No. 5, ‘The Departed’
WHY IS THIS ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR?: A cast and crew at the absolute top of their games — including some you never thought could play in this league — create a tough, gritty, funny, thrilling, pure-popcorn adrenaline rush. Movies that are Important and Meaningful and have Something To Say are … more…
counting down the best films of 2006: No. 6, ‘The Queen’
WHY IS THIS ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR?: Helen Mirren turns in one of the greatest performances in cinematic history as the reigning queen of England, Elizabeth II, taking a woman who not only doesn’t come across as warm and sympathetic, she doesn’t even seem human … and Mirren humanizes her, makes … more…
