This Is 40 (trailer)
Judd Apatow revisits some of the horrible people we had the displeasure to meet in Knocked Up…
Knocked Up
What to Expect When You’re Expecting (review)
It’s intended to be delightful, but it feels as long as a pregnancy itself, this roundrobin of forcefully interconnected tales of incipient parenthood.
erotic fanfic goes mainstream, or tries to (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Friends with Kids (redband trailer)
Apparently like Knocked Up, only the pregnancy wasn’t an accident…
cinematic roots of: ‘Life as We Know It’
In Life as We Know It, Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel can’t stand each other, but agree to raise the orphaned child of their friends anyway, because an environment of seething resentment and hatred is hardly different from what other kids grow up in. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
Life as We Know It (review)
First of all, any movie that kills off the smashing Christina Hendricks in the opening 20 minutes deserves to be shot down on the basis of that alone. But that’s only the tiniest of the many cinematic crimes of Life as We Know It, which pretends to be something hip and fresh and is in fact relentlessly conventional, even retrograde.
trailer break: ‘Barry Munday’
Oh, dear. It’s an indie Knocked Up…
defining the female gaze
In response to something I posted recently about “the female gaze,” I got an email from a male reader who appeared to believe that “the female gaze” refers to “movies women like to watch.” It doesn’t. Not even close. But his email got my thinking that perhaps I need to explain what “the female gaze” … more…
Funny People (review)
Tears of a Clown Oh, people are gonna hate this movie. Look, the jokes are not jokes in Funny People. The humorous-sounding bits of dialogue are not intended to make you laugh so much as they are intended to make you wonder why the characters uttering them are trying to make those around them laugh. … more…
July 24: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but have you seen the price of a ticket these days? That’s the real “ugly truth” at the multiplex. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on … more…
