the total made-up May movie preview
What’s coming to the multiplex this month… sorta…
Joyeux Noël (aka Merry Christmas) movie review: a terrible peace
Dramatizes a bizarre moment in time with a straightforward aplomb that is devastating. You wish you could laugh at the insanity of it but the only emotional response is overwhelming rage and grief.
cinemastrology: cinemascopes for the week of 05.04-05.10
What words of dubious wisdom are Hollywood insiders relying on this week?
mission improbable? MI3 promo gets blown up, cinemastrology to blame?
You think that fake bomb thing in Los Angeles was an accident. No way…
new on DVD: into the woods in ‘Hoodwinked’ and ‘The Family Stone’
Visiting the family can be hell. Also: DVDs from the Department of Cashing In, like ‘The Poseidon Adventure’ and ‘The Real Da Vinci Code’
weekend box office: ‘RV’ and ‘United 93’ (insert your own joke)
Lots of people braved the horrors of ‘United 93,’ but even more braved the horrors of ‘RV”…
Forty Shades of Blue (review)
A gorgeously grim portrait of regrets and lost opportunities, Ira Sach’s tender and heartbreaking drama is supremely subtle in how it emotionally flays its characters to lay bare their unspoken anguish…
Odyssey 5: The Complete Series (review)
It might be the best show that ever got cancelled before it had finished what it had come to do, a science fiction drama that’s smart, gritty, and — the toughest thing for TV SF to accomplish — original.
The Sentinel: The Complete First Season (review)
Remarkable only for how stolidly unremarkable it is, as if it can’t be bothered to be exciting and is content to be merely competent.
Robot Chicken: Season One (review)
Geek nirvana doesn’t come any sweeter or weirder than this mad amalgam of toy abuse and pop-culture spoofing…
