critic’s minifesto #1: it’s not personal
When I review a movie, it’s never personal. It’s always about what we are presented with as an entertainment artifact.
Angelina Jolie
question of the day: O Hollywood, where art thou?
Does Hollywood truly intend to be more creative, more original… or is this just a clever new marketing tactic?
Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2010 EDA Awards nominees
The AWFJ is one of the critics’ groups I belong to; my input helped determine these nominees, and I will vote in the final balloting to narrow it down to the winners. I still have to watch a few of these nominees…
The Tourist (review)
Who knew the Hollywood Foreign Press Association had such a sense of humor? A nomination for Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy, for The Tourist? Unless… No… They can’t mean “Inadvertent Comedy,” can they?
trailer break: ‘The Tourist’
I bet Angelina Jolie isn’t sorry she got Johnny Depp involved in this at all. I bet she’s loving it…
on my radar: opening 08.18-20.10 in U.K. theaters
Anything it takes Stallone *and* a gang of badasses to do in *The Expendables,* Angelina Jolie can do all on her own in *Salt*…
what he said: Peter Bradshaw at the ‘Guardian’ Film blog …
You haven’t heard what Emma Thompson said about Audrey Hepburn? Tee-hee!
question of the day: Who would you cast in an all-female ‘Expendables’/‘A-Team’/‘Losers’ action film?
And they have to rescue at least one big strong badass guy from mortal danger…
on my radar: opening 08.11-13.10 in U.K. theaters
What else can Disney plunder from its own history?
calling bullshit on: Owen Gleiberman at EW’s The Movie Critics…
…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…
