question of the day: How soon is too soon to start talking about next year’s Oscars?
The Hunger Games! Oscar contender! Never mind that it’s only April! *sigh*
Elizabeth Banks
The Hunger Games (review)
Every once in a while, just as I’m about to succumb to Hollywood-stoked despair and ennui, a movie like The Hunger Games comes along to rescue me…
Man on a Ledge (review)
Well. Rarely has a movie been so accurately named. Man on a Ledge is very much about a man on a ledge. And not much more…
today in studio asskissing: just try avoiding ‘The Hunger Games’ between now and March
I’m not posting these new character posters merely because I want to look at them. What makes you think that?
The Next Three Days (review)
How do you manage child care while doing all the footwork required to plan your wife’s prison break? It sounds ridiculous, and it should be ridiculous up on the screen. But Russell Crowe makes it work in ways that far exceed any expectations we should honestly have for such a preposterous potboiler of a concept.
trailer break: ‘The Next Three Days’
I bet Russell Crowe done the murder Elizabeth Banks was arrested for, and he’s feeling so guilty about it he just has to bust her out…
The Uninvited (review)
Oh, for some kick-ass movie ghosts. I’m talking kick-ass on a Dickensian level.
Role Models (review)
There’s something sad and pathetic about a movie character with more dignity and self-respect for himself than for the movie he’s in has for him. He’s like a cold and bedraggled puppy lured in from the rain who gets kicked in the teeth while he’s warming himself by the fire. Such is the fate of *Role Model*’s Augie Farks, played by Christopher Mintz-Plasse…
Zack and Miri Make a Porno (review)
Porn: I’m so not a fan of it. For the same reasons I’m so not a fan of most slasher/torture horror movies. Cuz it’s all about body parts, not about people. But *Zack and Miri Make a Porno* is not about body parts: it’s about people.
5 reasons I’m psyched for ‘Zack and Miri Make a Porno’
All this week! 5 movies I’m psyched for in October, and 5 reasons why. No. 3: Zack and Miri Make a Porno [opens wide October 31]. 1. Kevin Smith. He’s GenX’s bard: no one understands us better than he does, and no one tells stories about us that speak to us like he does. 2. … more…
