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Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Oh, it’s another trailer that gives away a bit too much of the movie, but not enough to ruin it. I saw this yesterday, and found it absolutely delightful. And if it’s possible to imagine, Colin Hanks might be more ridiculously charming than his father. This is … more…
I was supposed to check out two indie films yesterday, but there was half a foot of snow on the ground, so I skipped ’em. Fortunately there will be other screenings of those films, so no big loss. The snow has stopped and it’s sunny today, but at the moment here in NYC, it’s 16 … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… (It’s red-band, but I don’t see anything here that warrants it.) Looks like it’s back to the future for a war between humans and “mutants” (who gets to define “mutant,” I wonder…?) in the trenches of World War I — at least, that’s what it looks like … more…
This I will concede: I finally get what the big deal is about Angelina Jolie.
I think maybe I’ve figured out how Joel and Ethan Coen do it. How they move so effortlessly from comedy to drama, from fluffy to forceful, from silly to solemn. It’s that they don’t think about tone or genre, at least not at the beginning: they just think about a character, and let him have his lead, and see where he takes them.
Rowan Atkinson (Scooby-Doo) has successfully straddled the full spectrum of funny, from the sharp intellectual wordplay of Blackadder to the pathos-imbued silent comedy of Mr. Bean. Here, alas, he lands somewhere squarely in the uninspired middle with a character who is by turns bumbling and sophisticated, idiotic and brainy, dorky and irresistible to women, contradictions … more…
What if the dude who played Nosferatu in that great old 1922 silent German horror movie was actually really a vampire? Cool.
An out-of-work puppeteer unwittingly discovers a portal into the brain of actor John Malkovich. That bald description of the film’s strikingly original concept doesn’t even begin to cover how deliciously odd Being John Malkovich is.
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