Movie 43 movie review
It is so cute what this flick thinks is “dangerous” and “offensive”!
Emma Stone
Gangster Squad (review)
Gangster Squad! In color! This is blustery postwar mythologizing about the violent birth of the modern metropolis, all pulpy-bright even when it’s night…
The Amazing Spider-Man (review)
The Amazing Spider-Man? That’s a stretch. More like the Halfhearted Spider-Man. The Just-Sorta-There Spider-Man. The Familiar Spider-Man…
The Help (review)
If movies that’re all men and no women can be universal, so can this one. This is The Shawshank Redemption.
question of the day: Are stories about racism automatically racist if told through the eyes of white characters?
If the Association of Black Women Historians thinks The Help is racist, aren’t I just demonstrating my own white privilege by insisting that it isn’t?
Crazy Stupid Love (trailer)
Hey, now this is the kind of romantic comedy I like (if the movie actually lives up to the trailer)…
question of the day: If you were going to invent a new Oscar category à la the MTV Movie Awards, what would it be, and who or what would be the definitive example of a winner?
Perhaps the best thing about the MTV Movie Awards is its cheeky categories: Best Kiss, Best Fight, Best Villain. The Oscars could use a few fun categories to enliven its broadcast each year…
question of the day: What would be the ultimate awful summer movie?
The blockbuster season is creeping up on us, and with it comes the specter of really really terrible movies. It’s as inevitable as sunburn, sand in your sneakers, and mosquito bites. My ultimate awful summer movie? I imagine it might look something like this…
the year in movies by and about women…
I have some stuff to say about how women were depicted onscreen this year, and how women made movies this year, over at Women and Hollywood…
Stephen Fry is Mycroft Holmes; Emma Stone is Gwen Stacy; Armie Hammer is NOT the Winklevi (but he kinda is); more: leftover links
Plus, Avatar sex toys, Cory Doctorow on the real cost of free, how the rich buy journalists, and more.
