Parkland review (London Film Festival)
This poignant and painful ensemble drama about the lesser-known figures caught up in the JFK assassination reminds us that history happens to regular people, too.
JFK
Parkland trailer: we are all Zapruders now
Just in time for the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Oh… goodie?
cannot contain my excitement for the London Film Festival
I’m hyperventilating from the array of overwhelming movie awesomeness before me.
fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Jan 19-25 2013
Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…
Butter (trailer)
Mmm, butter…
Rubber (review)
A tire develops sentience. And independent mobility. Be afraid. Because it can also kill you with its mind. Yes, it has a mind. And it enjoys killing you with its mind. Be also amused, in a deeply weird, weirdly deep sort of way…
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (review)
It’s sort of adorable and sort of terrifying to look at Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and see the ultimate 80s icon of sharky, sociopathic greed — Gordon Gekko — reduced to an object of quaint amusement, for both the characters onscreen and for us in the viewing audience.
secrets of the universe and government conspiracies found in children’s movies!!!!
It’s true. IGNORE THIS AT YOUR OWN PERIL!!!!! The government does not want you to know this. THREATS TO ME FOR REVEALING THIS INFORMATION WILL BE FORWARDED TO LAW ENFORCEMENT!!!! Commenter “Rachel Masters” dared to post this yesterday in response to my review of Horton Hears a Who!: I will tell you exactly what this … more…
my week at the movies: ‘Fired Up,’ ‘Must Read After My Death,’ ‘An American Affair’
Two high school football players skip football camp for cheerleading camp. “2 girls. 300 guys. You do the math.” Okay, I’m doing the math on Fired Up! (opens in the U.S. on February 20 and in the U.K. on May 22). Clearly we are meant to infer — infer’s not too hard a word for … more…
