Friends with Kids (redband trailer)
Apparently like Knocked Up, only the pregnancy wasn’t an accident…
Jon Hamm
Bridesmaids (review)
Progress! Hollywood has recognized the comedic value of women! If you’ve had it up to here with movies all about fat dudes who are disgusting and crude and that’s all extra funny cuz they’re fat, then behold: Bridesmaids features not one but two very overweight women who will gross you out with their flab, their sexual desires, their farts, their inability to recognize the personal space of others, and other revolting things that are doubly hilarious coming from fatties!
Howl (review)
James Franco’s elucidation of Allen Ginsberg is soaring in its warmth and sincerity. The words are (mostly) the writer’s, but the vitality and the passion are all Franco’s: he makes the poet breathe for us today in a way that feels entirely modern and relevant.
cinematic roots of: ‘The Town’
In The Town, bank robber (Ben Affleck) falls in love with a witness (Rebecca Hall) to his latest heist while dodging the investigation of an FBI agent (Jon Hamm) into his crimes. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
The Town (review)
Affleck could do for Boston what Martin Scorsese did for New York in the 1970s…
deep thought (re handsome movie stars)
Jon Hamm is the new George Clooney…
a few thoughts on ‘Mad Men’: “Waldorf Stories”
Okay, so, herewith the sexism of the 1960s…
trailer break: ‘Howl’
I am more and more impressed by James Franco all the time…
trailer break: ‘The Town’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Is there a big ’ol spoiler in this trailer? Cuz there’s something here that I would have thought would be a secret. Maybe it isn’t — maybe it’s a key part of the story from the beginning. It’s revealed in the brief plot synopsis on the movie’s … more…
April 16: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but all that street crime isn’t gonna fight itself, and you’ve got to pick up your cape and mask from the dry cleaners, too. But you can have a multiplex-like experience from the comfort of your own sofa with a collection … more…
