it’s ‘Prairie Home Companion’ week!
At this time of year when all the blow-’em-up flicks and kiddie cartoons are getting all the attention, I’m gonna lavish some love on a smart, witty grownup movie.
nerd fantasies
Involving Josh Lucas, ice cream, and doing nothing else but blogging all day…
Rollergirls: The Complete Season One (review)
I’d say this was all fake… but it’s too boring to be invented.
The Closer: The Complete First Season (review)
A whole new kind of eye-opener: it’s feminist like the show invented the concept of standing up for a woman as *human*: smart, skilled, flawed…
Playing for Change (review)
A valentine to street musicians, which’ll be more interesting, I suspect, if you don’t encounter the breed in your daily life.
New Police Story (review)
Is a Jackie Chan movie ever really bad?
weekend box office: well, there’ll be no living with Ratner now
Mutants and global warming: it’s the box office battle of the summer!
‘Behind the Screen: The Princess Bride’: mostly dead is a little alive
The final death knell of my ‘Princess Bride’ book… but I’m working with Miracle Max on reviving it…
ironies and idiocies: the soldiering experience on film
Where are the movies about soldiers this Memorial Day weekend… or ANY Memorial Day weekend?
X-Men: The Last Stand (review)
It’s the least crappy flick yet from fauxteur Brett Ratner, which is actually quite an accomplishment from the man who gave us ‘Rush Hour,’ ‘Rush Hour 2,’ and the upcoming ‘Rush Hour 3.’ And we can thank the comic book gods that he didn’t cast Chris Tucker in it.
