Inside Llewyn Davis review: trying of the human spirit
Hilarious in the Coens’ weird, askew way, but also absolutely crushing. This movie breaks my heart in a hundred different ways.
Carey Mulligan
The Great Gatsby mini review
Alternately intriguing and infuriating: it’s very like the sort of movie exuberantly excessive Gatsby himself might have made.
for those who doubt that women can be misogynist…
The women of After Ellen think it’s totes cute to sort other women into “shag,” “marry,” or “dump” categories…
oh, and here’s why strong female superheroes matter
UK multiplex chain Cineworld thinks all superheroes are dudes who hang around with ladies who need rescuing…
Inside Llewyn Davis (trailer)
The Coen Brothers have a new film! Directed and written by them! Always a cause for celebration…
Shame (review)
Strips away the bullshit to the bare, spare truth: what pop culture typically feeds us as “ordinary” male sexuality is probably worthy of a psychiatric diagnosis.
Drive (review)
Remember Drive Angry? (I hope you don’t.) This is not that movie. This is Drive Calm. This is Drive Cool.
trailer break: ‘Brighton Rock’
Carey Mulligan was all set to star here till she dropped out to do Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps…
question of the day: Are you worried about the new ‘Great Gatsby’ movie?
With Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire, Leonardo DiCaprio, Baz Luhrmann onboard at this point, is it worth giving this movie a chance, at least until we start seeing terrible trailers? Or should some novels simply be written off as unfilmmable?
cinematic roots of: ‘Never Let Me Go’
In Never Let Me Go, Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, and Andrew Garfield are childhood friends destined to be organ donors in a dystopic parallel England where such things are a matter of bureaucracy and custom. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
