Endless Love review: no more Daddy’s little girl
Shockingly not terrible, and says some things that need to be said more often, like how dads do not own their teenaged daughters…
Country Strong
Inside Llewyn Davis (trailer)
The Coen Brothers have a new film! Directed and written by them! Always a cause for celebration…
On the Road (trailer)
Very much looking forward to this one. I loved Walter Salles’ Motorcycle Diaries, and this has a similar look and feel, so that’s promising. Also: Jack Kerouac.
best and worst movie quotes of 2010
Oh yeah, I’m late with this. I carefully gather them all year long and then I never get around to posting them. So here they are at long last. And for 2011, I’m just gonna post ’em as they come in. So there.
Colin Firth and Natalie Portman are Oscar shoo-ins; everything else up for grabs: Oscar predictions
Here’s an at-a-glance look at my picks for Sunday night’s Academy Awards — projected winners are Xed. Keep in mind: this isn’t a list of whom I think should win Oscars but whom I think will win…
Country Strong (review)
There’s solid workmanship and an authentic emotional muscle in this movie. I was startled to find myself overwhelmed, eventually, by its ragged charms and its rough-edged vision of female power and pain.
deep thought (re ‘Country Strong’)
It’s a bit suspicious that New York is not one of the ”select cities” Country Strong is opening in on Wednesday. Don’t they want the New York critics to see it? Maybe they’re afraid we don’t get country music…
trailer break: ‘Country Strong’
The title makes me think of WristStrong, Stephen Colbert’s parody charity movement against wrist violence… and what we know about the film so far seems to imply that being country strong means taking strength from jealousy and substance abuse.
