Poltergeist: The Legacy: Season 1 (review)
Spooky stuff from the Vancouver ‘Stargate’/’Outer Limits’ cabal of creative types…
Missing: Season 2 (review)
Girl power solves crime. Yuck.
Apartment 12 (review)
Before you could count on him, Mark Ruffalo was doing crappy romantic comedies…
Tous les Matins du Monde (review)
This acclaimed 1991 new classic of French cinema arrives in a gorgeous new DVD presentation that will delight fans of great film and beautiful music. Winner of seven Césars (the French Oscar) and based on historical figures, this is the vibrant and glorious tale of a mysterious and deeply sad 17th-century viol teacher, Monsieur de … more…
man in black meets man in black
Johnny Cash: I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die. Westley: Do you always begin conversations this way?
my ‘Princess Bride’ book: only mostly dead
Inconceivable! My publisher goes belly-up before we even got to uncorrected proofs.
cinemastrology: cinemascopes for the week of 03.02-03.08
The first mysterious cinemascopes arrive from my secret source…
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (review)
Just wait a minute before you call Godwin on this movie…
Tsotsi (review)
A devastating vision of harsh life in the townships of Johannesburg…
Darwin’s Nightmare (review)
This Oscar nominee for Best Documentary Feature is kinda like science fiction — one of those post-the-collapse-of-nature dystopias of the 1970s — except it’s real.
