Moonlight movie review: the empathy machine in action (but only if you’re watching)
Luminous and plaintive, Moonlight is emotional virtual reality, transforming a unique human experience into something universal and unforgettable.
Freaky Friday
question of the weekend: If you could do a Freaky Friday switcheroo with anyone, who would it be?
It could be a real person — your first grade teacher, a glamorous movie star or famous athlete, maybe your own sibling — or it could be a hypothetical someone: perhaps a person doing a job you’d love to try, for instance…
The Change-Up (redband trailer)
If Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds are actively hoping to piss away their charms, they’re both doing excellent jobs of it.
DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
President Obama may have us all feeling more confident that the collapse of civilization because of credit swap defaults — instead of the way-cooler zombie apocalypse or ape uprising The Movies had promised us — has been headed off for the moment, but that don’t mean a penny saved ain’t still a penny saved. And … more…
17 Again (review)
The best thing that can be said about this gender-swapped trifle of a riff on *Freaky Friday* is that it’s entirely inoffensive…
trailer break: ’17 Again’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Um, Freaky Friday much? Um, we’re supposed to believe that Matthew Perry looked like Zac Efron 25 years ago? That’s funny. The rest of it? Ugh. Look, I like Zac Efron. He’s adorable, he’s talented, but he needs a better agent if this is the best he … more…
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