my week at the movies: ‘Extract,’ ‘An Education,’ ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs,’ ‘All About Steve,’ ‘Disgrace,’ ‘Gamer’

UPDATED: It’s turning out to be a much busier screening week than I expected. I’ve added two movies: The Boys Are Back (opens in the U.S. on September 25, and in the U.K. on January 15, 2010), starring Clive Owen as an Australian single dad, and Broken Embraces (opened in the U.K. on August 28; … more…

trailer break: ‘All About Steve’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Oh, it’s about a stalker girl! Isn’t that hilarious? Sandra Bullock comes on too strong for poor wittle Bradley Cooper that he just has to run away… and then she chases him. I’ve paused 68 seconds into the trailer to get that paragraph above down, and already … more…

bias update: July 7

obsession: Doctor Who (I’m sad that I’m running out of Christopher Eccleston episodes to write about, except that that means I can start writing about the classic series) boyfriend: Bradley Cooper (and here’s where I need to make the distinction, again, between the actor and the characters he plays: sometimes my boyfriend is a character, … more…