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Roger Ebert announced earlier this week that he will be producing a new version of At the Movies, the PBS and later syndicated film criticism series he and Gene Siskel pioneered in the 1970s…
…on what arts criticism is, and what it isn’t…
He really should get back in the kitchen, where he belongs, and make me a sandwich, and learn when to just shut the fuck up if he knows what’s good for him…
…for deciding that two female action stars constitutes a “new normal”: It’s amusing to realize, in hindsight, that Luc Besson’s funky-violent French art-house thriller La Femme Nikita, in 1990, and its rote American remake, Point of No Return, in 1993, were still treating lady-killer heroines with kid gloves. At that point, seeing an actress like … more…
…about the Internet upheaval over Inception: If I had to issue a one-sentence manifesto for film criticism, it would be this: Any movie worth seeing is worth arguing about, and any movie worth arguing about is worth seeing. It really is as simple as that.
So, Armond White is a troll, after all. I debated not posting anything about this at all. I keep hearing my mom’s voice, her advice on what to do about bullies when I was kid: “Just ignore them. They’re only looking for attention.” That’s White in a nutshell: He says crazy things, he gets linked, … more…
…on what to call an overload of CGI (in commenting on Predators) It’s a minor miracle to see an action movie in which the action feels organic, and it’s not just a flatulence of CG. (By the way, that’s officially the plural term for a lot of CG, or several CG effects in one place … more…
…on one of the supreme pleasures of being a film critic: Some people hate watching films in the daytime, and some love it for the bunking-off-school feeling of naughtiness. I am in the second category. And there’s an extra-special thrill for the film reviewer: going to see a film in the morning. At 10.30, or … more…
Aaron Cutler at Slant Magazine opens an essay on a Cary Grant retrospective at the Brooklyn Academy of Music — which is, for the New York neophyte, a major forum for film, too — like this: Viewership is by nature bisexual. It compels us to take on the perspectives of men desiring women, of women … more…
We’re all familiar with this kind of situation: A studio has a stinker on its hands, so it frontloads the critical response by showing the film, weeks before it opens, to quote whores, entertainment “journalists” who aren’t critics but get their subsequently rapturous reactions splashed across posters and TV ads anyway. You know, they’re the … more…
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