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I’m off to Paris tonight! It’s almost hard to believe I’ve never been there before: it feels like I know the city already because I’ve seen it so often on film. Now, as a New Yorker who has encountered people who think they know New York because they’ve seen it on TV and in the … more…
Didja ever sit down to watch one of your favorite movies only to suddenly realize — as it begins and you get into it and get reminded how much you goddamn love this movie — that it’s probably been like 10 years since you watched it? Cuz, you know, our very favorite movies are always … more…
It’s the first day of spring — hoorah! Is it just me, or has this winter felt particularly long and gray and wet and cold? (And to all my readers below the Equator, I hope you had a nice summer, and welcome to autumn.) Put yourself in the springtime mindset with these movies: 1. What’s … more…
It’s almost St. Patrick’s Day, which can mean parades and soda bread and green beer, or it could mean a little DVD festival of great little movies you’ve never seen — or have forgotten about — starring eight of today’s biggest stars who hail from the Emerald Isle. Such as these: 1. Colin Farrell: Hart’s … more…
The Net is abuzz today with the news of the alternate ending to I Am Legend — which will apparently be on the DVD — that is so much better than what we actually saw in the theaters. You can watch it here; thanks to reader boz for pointing this out to me, and everyone … more…
See it: • The Darjeeling Limited [buy it]. From my review: “We haven’t located us yet.” That makes my brain giggle and my soul smart — see, “smart” is the equivalent of “pain,” sometimes — in almost exactly the same way as that line’s counterappealing opposite: Buckaroo Banzai’s “No matter where you go, there you … more…
Ask anyone of the Generation X persuasion about Joan Crawford, and there’s one image that invariably leaps to mind, and it ain’t of Joan Crawford: it’s of Faye Dunaway portraying Joan Crawford in the notorious 1981 biopic Mommie Dearest. And particularly of the clownishly madeup Dunaway Crawford screaming about wire hangers, the undesirability of. So … more…
See it: • Becoming Jane [buy it]. From my review: I love Becoming Jane even if it is almost entirely invented, because it captures both the aching romanticism and the cold, hard practicalities of Austen’s fiction. And it even, in a way, does Austen one better: it’s laden with all of the angst and heartbreak … more…
See it: • Elizabeth: The Golden Age [buy it]. From my review: Torture! Intrigue! Sex! Treachery! Holy war! Cate Blanchett in royal drag! Clive Owen in pirate drag! We are highly amused. If 10th-grade history was as much fun as this, no one would ever cut class. Seriously, though: Why don’t they teach us history … more…
Skip it: • The Invasion [buy it]. From my review: “I’m so afraid I’m gonna fall asleep,” Nicole Kidman says at one point during The Invasion, which was just about the only spooky or eerie moment I encountered in this third — and entirely unnecessary — screen mounting of Jack Finney’s classic science fiction novel … more…
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