Tsunami: The Aftermath (review)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s the same old imperialist “Westerners go to exotic places where poor brown people live and die all the time in awful ways, but now It’s Important and It Matters cuz it’s happening to Westerners,” but give ‘Tsunami: The Aftermath’ a chance, will ya?

Candy (review)

While this rather harrowing story of romance not so much star-crossed as heroin-addled ain’t exactly fun, there’s a lot of cinematic pleasure to be had in Heath Ledger’s thoroughly un-self-conscious performance…

Charlotte’s Web (review)

The first live-action adaptation of the story of Wilbur the pig and Charlotte the spider gracefully tiptoes around all the enormous potential for disaster and gets it all absolutely, perfectly, couldn’t-be-more-right right.

no reviews, and you couldn’t post comments: what’s up?

I know: you’re wondering where all the new reviews of this week’s flicks are, why you haven’t been able to post comments for the last 48 hours or so. The latter is not, as someone suggested to me in email, that I had turned off comments because the feedback on Apocalypto had gotten too heated. … more…

The History Boys (review)

I enjoyed ‘The History Boys’ much more than it really deserves to be enjoyed because it’s so darn intellectual, in that show-offy way that lets you feel smart and superior…