Fifty Shades of Grey movie review: neurotica
A charm-free hero with control issues and a passive, fretful heroine have coy and tediously vanilla pretend-sex. This is meant to be erotic?
Aaron Johnson
Nowhere Boy (review)
Oh, we already know how it ends! John Lennon starts a band and ends up bigger than God. Before that, though… whew. There’s a whole lotta psychosexual stuff packed into Nowhere Boy, the tale of Lennon’s adolescence in Liverpool, which may or may not be true, but it sure makes for a smashing film.
trailer break: ‘Nowhere Boy’
Tomorrow would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday. It is a crime against humanity that he is not still with us.
omg: ‘All Creatures Great and Small Babies’ on its way
I’ve been rewatching *All Creatures Great and Small,* and I’m so happy to find that this 1970s-80s series holds up very well indeed.
The Greatest (review)
First-time writer-director Shana Feste has made a wise, insightful movie about family, grief, and how awful and how wonderful it is to discover that life goes on after someone you love dies.
April 16: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but all that street crime isn’t gonna fight itself, and you’ve got to pick up your cape and mask from the dry cleaners, too. But you can have a multiplex-like experience from the comfort of your own sofa with a collection … more…
Kick-Ass (review)
Clearly, Dave Lizewski has never read *Watchmen,* or seen the movie…
question of the day: Who is your dream celebrity casting of a celebrity?
Confused? See, it’s like this: This week we learned that Rachel Weisz will play Jackie Kennedy in an upcoming movie by Darren Aronofsky about the first lady’s life just after her husband’s assassination. And we learned that Robert Pattinson will play Kurt Cobain with Scarlett Johansson as Courtney Love in an upcoming movie from David … more…
trailer break: ‘The Greatest’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Carey Mulligan and Susan Sarandon and Pierce Brosnan? Nice. Yes, the boyfriend is Aaron Johnson, aka Kick-Ass. The Greatest opens in the U.S. and Canada on April 2; no U.K. release date has been announced.
