Premonition (review)
You know those “In a world where…” movie trailers? Well, *Premonition*’s would start out: “In a world where no one has ever seen *Groundhog Day*…”
I Think I Love My Wife (review)
I am not the audience for this flick. I don’t need a tortured justification that the choices I made are the “right” ones no matter how unhappy I am about them. I don’t need the release of laughing at my own suffering.
Olive Stone, cinematic madman, and his new ‘Alexander’
Consider me the time-traveling National Guardswoman for the Movies: I spent a weekend with ancient warriors on ancient battlefields. After my third look at 300 on Saturday, I spent Sunday with Alexander the Great. Well, Alexander the Not So Great. Okay, Alexander the Toga Ken Doll. As I mentioned recently over at Film.com, Toga Ken … more…
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) movie review: before the Wall fell
The ending can make or break a film. The Lives of Others, Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, has one of the greatest final lines of dialogue that I’ve ever heard in a movie.
300 (review)
The first person who uses any aspect of this flick to justify the American debacle in Iraq is getting a swat across the nose with a copy of *My Pet Goat.* Which King Leonides of Sparta does not sit reading while his country is threatened and attacked.
Breaking and Entering (review)
This is a smart, elegant, sophisticated film that should be everything I want to see in a movie and yet fails to be because it’s missing that one enigmatic element, the hardest to capture, the most unfakeable: spirit.
Crispin Glover’s What Is It? (review)
Freak Me I mentioned a while back on Film.com that I was about to encounter what I expected to be the mindblowing creativity and presence of Crispin Glover. And I did, and it was mindblowing, and I survived, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since. The evening started with Glover presenting … more…
takin’ a little break from the 10-year retrospective
I’ve gotten behind in migrating old reviews into the blog format, and I don’t anticipate having any time to catch up with that this week, so I’m gonna take a little break from the retrospective this week. Hopefully I’ll find some time over next weekend to do some migrating, and I’ll get back to the … more…
geeks’ night out: come see ‘300’ in Times Square
We did it for Snakes on a Plane, and now we’re doing it for 300, the new historical action drama comic-book fantasy. Join me and my gang of geeks for a Geeks’ Night Out as we catch a late-afternoon showing of 300 in Times Square in New York on Saturday, March 10. Afterward, we’ll head … more…
dvd mashup: ‘Marie Antoinette’ and ‘The Affair of the Necklace’
Two delicious postmodern takes on the decadent French monarchy.
