trailer break: ‘Going the Distance’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Really? Is Hollywood simply incapable of giving us anything close to comedy and/or romance these days that does not involve random physical humiliation “humor”? There aren’t enough genuine challenges and weirdnesses involved in a long-distance romance that idiotic and ridiculous ones have to be invented? Pubic hair … more…

Planet 51 (review)

Much of what might have made it appealing to true devotees of science fiction and cinema, like how it’s a pastiche of 1950s B-movies, is lost when its parodying of the paranoia and xenophobia of those films is so relentlessly trite and obvious…

caption this! image from ‘Serious Moonlight’

New fun for Wednesdays! We look at an image from an upcoming movie and write snarky, witty, or otherwise entertaining captions for it. No prizes, it’s just for fun. Serious Moonlight is the directorial debut of actress Cheryl Hines, and it was written by Adrienne Shelly, who was murdered in 2006 just as her film … more…

Accepted movie review: course correction

Almost like a forgotten relic of the late 70s, early 80s, when even summer comedies came with a touch of social commentary and a bit of class consciousness — when they ate the rich instead of aspiring to be one of them.