Radioflash movie review: it’s got no juice
Inept post-EMP survival thriller is no more thrilling than it is plausible, and inexcusably casts its resourceful teen heroine as a victim constantly at the mercy of others and in need of rescuing.
Dominic Monaghan
Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism movie review: you are getting very angry…
This desperately terrible children’s fantasy is an unpleasant mishmash of dated slapstick, unwittingly sinister adventure, and icky magic.
Martin Freeman IS Bilbo Baggins…
…but Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield? I hope they don’t bury that gorgeous face of his under mountains of latex…
watch it: “josh holloway audition tape”
Lost may be over, but it will never be over. Just look at this: io9 dug up the audition tapes for many of the actors who ended up in the main cast. I feature Josh Holloway here because he’s the cast member I’d most like to fuck: But you can also watch audition performances by … more…
I Sell the Dead (review)
If it were a 30-minute comic episode of *The Twilight Zone,* this ambitious low-budget flick might not have overstayed its welcome, but dragged out to three times that running time, it cannot help but be more miss than hit.
my week at the movies: ‘G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra,’ ‘Julie & Julia,’ ‘Post Grad,’ ‘A Perfect Getaway,’ ‘I Sell the Dead’
UPDATE: I was planning to see The Time Traveler’s Wife (opens in the U.S. and the U.K. on August 14) next week, but I just learned of an earlier screening… tonight. So I’ve got a double feature tonight: Eric Bana melting through time, and then G.I. Joe. Should be fun! So now the buzz on … more…
trailer break: ‘I Sell the Dead’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Awesome title. Sounds like a Sam Raimi movie. Awesome dialogue: “I need more corpses, and I need them now.” Well, who doesn’t? Awesome concept: a comedy about graverobbing is what the world has been waiting for. It’s nice to see that Dominic Monaghan has not let Lost … more…
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (review)
The words I keep coming back to, the ones that seem to fit this most astonishing of films best, are ‘terrible’ and ‘awful.’ The old-fashioned senses of the words are what I’m talking about: Peter Jackson has given us a grandly eloquent film that inspires more terror and more awe than anything I’ve seen in a long time. I can compare my reaction to it only with the moviegoing experiences of my childhood, when the hugeness, the all-encompassing-ness of movies in all ways — emotionally, viscerally, visually, aurally — first astounded me, when ‘Night on Bald Mountain’ and Darth Vader’s stormtroopers horrified me to such a degree that I can still feel it.
