Django Unchained (review)
Quentin Tarantino spins a dark fantasia of the pre-Civil War South that is hilarious, ferocious, shocking, and wise, sometimes all at once.
Christoph Waltz
Carnage (review)
Sometimes it’s easy to separate the artist from his art. Roman Polanksi’s latest makes this really tough.
Carnage (trailer)
Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly, Christoph Waltz, Jodie Foster: how can this not be great?
The Three Musketeers (review)
It is leaden where it should be light. It is graceless and charmless. It reels from the painful banter. It is the epitome of empty soulless corporate filmmaking.
The Three Musketeers (trailer)
In 3D. Just like Alexandre Dumas intended.
great movie quotes: ‘Water for Elephants’
“Don’t even mention Ringling Brothers. He hates those bastards worse than the Depression.” –Camel (Jim Norton) to Jacob (Robert Pattinson) about August (Christoph Waltz)
Water for Elephants (review)
As cornball goes, there’s nothing cornier than running away to join the circus. And that’s why Water for Elephants works so beautifully: It doesn’t pretend to be anything other than an old-fashioned melodrama yarn-spun for as much emotion and tragedy and romance as possible.
The Green Hornet (review)
He doesn’t exactly kick ass: he is an ass. Life as a masked crime fighter with some slick wheels to groove him around town is not the chick magnet he imagined it would be…
Oscar predictions: ‘The Hurt Locker’ won’t be hurting
UPDATED: Winners are indicated with ♦s. I made informed guesses in 20 of the 24 categories; of those, I guessed 12 correctly. (Well, 13, really, except that in the animated short category in the original version of this page, I had both “The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)” and “Logorama” checked … more…
top 10 movies of 2009: the whys and wherefores
If you regularly check my on-the-fly ranking of new theatrical releases as I see them, then my top 10 movies of 2009 are no surprise: I shuffled a few titles around a bit last month, but the films ranked in the top 10 for 2009 haven’t changed much in months. (The 2009 ranking is here; … more…
