Cinderella movie review: fifty shades of ash
A product of the Disney princess machine. Its highest ambition is to move a new line of toys. Or to evoke despair in the fairy-tale-ization of girls’ lives.
Cate Blanchett
How to Train Your Dragon 2 movie review: flying higher
An absolute delight, even better than the first film; a gorgeously animated ode to sticking to your principles in the face of ultimate adversity.
my guesses for Sunday night’s 86th Academy Awards
Winners are indicated. I got 16/24. Pretty good, if I may say so myself.
The Monuments Men review: saving private collections (and public art)
As jaunty as Jean Dujardin’s beret, but in a sincere, old-fashioned kind of way. It could almost have been rediscovered from the 1940s…
the Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2013 EDA Award winners
12 Years a Slave and Gravity win big…
the Online Film Critics Society 2013 film awards winners
12 Years a Slave is our big winner…
Blue Jasmine trailer: Woody Allen is back in the U.S.
This is not necessaryily a good thing. It was going to Europe that seemed to reinvigorate him. Perhaps he has stayed invigorated.
fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of May 25-31 2013
Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…
gender-swapping Lord of the Rings
By Durin’s beard, this is magnificent!
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (review)
No, not all who wander are lost. But doesn’t mean that some who wander aren’t lost. Such as Peter Jackson, with his first-of-three-parts big-screen adaptation of The Hobbit.
