The Hangover Part III review: get pissed
It’s like they realized they never should have made a sequel, so for Part III, they didn’t even bother to make a Hangover movie at all…
John Goodman
Inside Llewyn Davis (trailer)
The Coen Brothers have a new film! Directed and written by them! Always a cause for celebration…
Flight (review)
Appears to poke, and not kindly, at how our society enables abusers of drugs and alcohol… until it stops being that interesting.
Trouble with the Curve (review)
Poor Clint Eastwood! He’s a Gran Torino old coot in a Moneyball world…
Argo (London Film Festival review)
I was literally in tears for parts of Argo, a purely physical reaction, not an emotional one, to deal with the tension. The only other option would have been to moan out loud, the film is almost that unbearably nerve-wracking.
ParaNorman (review)
Dismal, yet profound and pungent, ParaNorman makes its points in ways more sharp and brutal than other “children’s” films. This is a story about ostracism and bigotry taken to extremes, and about our own unspoken prejudices and assumptions.
question of the day: Would you pay extra to add the experience of a theme-park ride to an action movie?
The Toronto Globe and Mail reported early this week on a new technology designed to enhance the moviegoing experience: Canadians will be among the first to feel what it’s like to fly with Harry Potter. D-BOX Technologies Inc. has signed on with the latest instalment in the popular fantasy series, titled Harry Potter and the … more…
Monsters, Inc. (review)
Though this comes from the Toy Story folks, Monsters, Inc. is aimed more at the kiddies: it’s simpler, sweeter, less deeply affecting.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (review)
So what the Coens did with O Brother, Where Art Thou? is this: They transported Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey to this filmic otherworld of theirs, turning what is perhaps the original on-the-road story into a Depression-era fantasia that wants more for you to recognize the clever fun they’re having with filmmaking conventions of the 1930s than whether you know the least thing about ancient literature.
