critic’s minifesto #4: I am biast
It’s astonishing how often I am “accused” of being biased — or “biast,” as a reader once blasted at me — as if there were something extraordinary or unusual or unlikely or uncriticly about this…
Jonah Hill
question of the day: Was Fox right to change the title of the upcoming film Neighborhood Watch?
It seems to me like an overreaction on Fox’s part…
21 Jump Street movie review: the silly blue line
Fueled almost entirely by an appreciation of its own ridiculousness, balancing absurdity with smart truths and walking a fine tonal line to make us care about characters barely more than cartoons.
The Artist will have a good night (and other Oscar predictions)
Here’s an at-a-glance look at my picks for tomorrow night’s Academy Awards…
21 Jump Street (redband trailer)
Oh. My. God. Please kill me now. What have they done to my show?
The Sitter (review)
I’m starting to wonder, truly and sincerely, if David Gordon Green is suffering from one of those brain tumors that radically alters one’s personality…
question of the day: What is the most egregious snub among the Oscar nominations for 2011’s films?
Michael Fassbender? Tilda Swinton? Michael Shannon? Elizabeth Olsen? But Jonah Hill gets a nom… *sigh*
Moneyball (review)
I had been reduced to a slobbering gushy mess by the end of this gloriously entertaining movie even though I’d spend the entirety of the running time before this marveling at how this is the least sentimental baseball movie ever.
cinematic roots of: ‘The Virginity Hit’
In The Virginity Hit, a meanspirited teenaged boy documents — for YouTube and the whole world to see — his supposed best friend’s humiliating attempts to lose his virginity. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
question of the day: Which ‘Superbad’ guy has the best prospects for a long career?
Those guys are, of course, are the stars of the 2007 hit *Superbad* which cost only $20 million to produce and earned $120 million….
