curated cinema: a Method to the bloodsucking madness
2000’s Shadow of the Vampire is on Prime on both sides of the Atlantic.
John Malkovich
loaded question: what’s a notion you hold about pop culture (movies, TV, comics, whatev) that you know is unreasonable but can’t shake?
Mine is a dark earworm about actors and the characters they (sometimes) portray that I know is absurd, and I can’t not hear it.
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.
The Big Sick movie review: girlfriend in a coma, the rom-com
A rom-com for people who hate rom-coms. A painfully funny movie, full of enrapturing emotion that captures the glorious contradictions of all kinds of love.
Unlocked movie review: the spy who broke the female mold
There’s stuff in this spy thriller that’s fresh, and lots that’s familiar, but Noomi Rapace using her brains and brawn to fight bad guys is a genuine thrill.
Deepwater Horizon movie review: blood for oil
Immensely intense and suspenseful. Disaster filmmaking at its most gripping, yet there is nothing in the least bit exploitive or sensationalized about it.
Penguins of Madagascar movie review: it’s cheezey-dibble-icious
Gloriously bonkers. Like, Looney Tunes levels of cartoon madness. You will laugh your homo sapiens head off.
Red 2 review: global positioning
Smart, breezy spy action, with an of-the-moment vibe that takes it post-post-9/11 and into the Wikileaks era of global politics.
Warm Bodies (review)
Contents itself with the mildest of tweaks at both the zombie and the romantic-comedy genres… (new on DVD/VOD in the US and Canada)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (review)
Ewww. It’s got Michael Bay’s jingo-jism all over it.
