Push (review)
Dakota Fanning is the Littlest Action Hero in this disappointingly generic shoot-’em-up…
Dakota Fanning
trailer break: ‘Push’
Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Um, how is this different from X-Men and Heroes? And Firestarter? Crap, Dakota Fanning even looks like Drew Barrymore a bit, doesn’t she? I’m just wondering. Cuz in almost any other job in the world, if you were to go in to your boss’s office and … more…
DVDs and screeners received: ‘Dennis Potter: 3 to Remember,’ ‘Holly,’ more
I receive more DVDs in the mail than I can possibly ever review, and here I run them down once a week. This are all Region 1, though I’ll note if they’re available in Region 2, too. (And as an aside to all those British DVD publicists out there, I’m totally open to checking out … more…
The Secret Life of Bees (review)
The secret life of bees? More like the secret life of women. The bee thing, it’s a metaphor, see, for how half the human race lives shrouded in mystery and darkness and, I guess, sweetness and honey.
trailer break: ‘Hounddog’
Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Yes, this is the movie with the controversial scene in which a young girl played by Dakota Fanning is raped. Hounddog opens limited September 19.
Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (review)
All over the country, little girls with equine fixations will be blinking their dreamy pony-filled eyes at their daddies and pleading please please please prettyplease can we see the horse movie? And oddly enough, *Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story* is the cinematic equivalent of the deployment of such adorable nascent feminine wiles: Please don’t shoot the horse with the broken leg, Daddy, Dakota Fanning with her enormous eyes brimming with tears and her quivering lip doesn’t exactly say, but she might as well have. Please nurse the horse back to health at tremendous personal expense and sacrifice so you can later give it to me as a prezzie and I can train her and we can enter the massively prestigious Breeder’s Cup race with her! Pul-eeeeeeze!
