movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Jan 12
Frances McDormand’s acclaimed performance in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri finally gets its UK release, and French and Mexican films focus on women’s lives.
Frances McDormand
AWFJ 2017 EDA Awards winners announced
The Shape of Water wins Best Film, and Best Director goes to Guillermo del Toro. Agnes Varda is Defying Age and Ageism, and Hollywood’s sexual tormentors are inducted in the AWFJ Hall of Shame.
OFCS 2017 awards winners announced
Get Out wins Best Film and Best Original Screenplay. Call Me by Your Name, Dunkirk, and Three Billboards also take two awards each.
Promised Land (review)
At every turn, and via a simple narrative that is so effortless it barely feels constructed at all, nothing here is quite what it seems, and everything is even more than what it is.
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (review)
This is sheer manic animated anarchy, endlessly frenzied and funny; tickles and surprises both visually and intellectually…
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (terrible movie quotes)
“A little formality called paperwork is what separates us from the animals.” –Mearing (Frances McDormand)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (review)
Ewww. It’s got Michael Bay’s jingo-jism all over it.
quick list: five cold-weather movies that feel great in an NYC August
It’s so disgusting today in New York City that it made me actually cry in frustration. But just thinking about a handful of films makes me feel a little better. Because baby, it’s cold in these movies…
question of the day: What’s your dream actor/director pairing, and what kind of movie would they make?
Hilarious headline in the Onion this week: Ridley Scott Trades Russell Crowe To Tim Burton For Johnny Depp And though I hate to quote an entire story, this one is so short: HOLLYWOOD, CA—Directors Ridley Scott and Tim Burton traded their favorite actors Wednesday, closing a deal in which Scott received Johnny Depp and Burton … more…
won’t you watch the merely very-good movies of 2008?
In this season of Oscar nominations and critics’ awards, gala ceremonies and acceptance speeches, won’t you give a thought to the merely very-good films of 2008, those that could not make it to the rarefied ranks of the best of the the best of the best simply because they lacked, perhaps, the benefit of the … more…
