Unforgettable movie review: toxic femininity
Sure, Ice Queen is the villain here. She’s the one who’s in the wrong for doin’ ALL THE THINGS she was supposed to do, and her promised man-prize was stolen.
Katherine Heigl
Jackie & Ryan (aka Love Me Like You Do) movie review: in the moment
A romance of a gentle, bittersweet, grownup variety that doesn’t pretend that every connection has to be a grand, sweeping, happily-ever-after thing.
question of the day: What pointless remake of an old film — good, bad, or meh — can we expect Hollywood to foist on us next?
Not including the ones already in the planning stages, such as Annie, Dirty Dancing, Evil Dead, My Fair Lady, and Point Break…
question of the day: Would a coupon deal get you to a multiplex to see a movie you wouldn’t otherwise see?
It seems a Groupon deal did get some folks in the U.S. out to see One for the Money who might not otherwise have gone…
One for the Money (trailer)
Katherine Heigl may not have a clue, but she doesn’t have a clue! Ain’t female incompetence adorable?
New Year’s Eve (review)
What are you doing New Year’s eve? Not seeing this cheap, lazy excuse for a movie, I hope…
New Year’s Eve (trailer)
Because Satan has been waiting for the moment to spring both Sarah Jessica Parker and Katherine Heigl on us in the same movie…
Friends with Benefits (trailer)
I’m gonna go with the doubting that they will avoid the clichés of romantic comedies…
celebrity headlines I’d love to see
The Guardian’s headline about the marriage of two movie stars somehow elevates it above the level of mere gossip and turns it into something nearly shocking…
question of the day: What actor could most use the Coen Brothers as a director?
There are lots of actors whom I’d love to see work with the Coens, to see how their unique and hugely entertaining talents could be amplified by the brothers’ idiosyncratic perspective — James Franco, Amy Adams, Timothy Olyphant, Colin Firth, Steve Coogan, Maria Bello, and on and on — none of them really need that boost the Coens could give them. Unlike my top five candidates for Coen-ification…
