Official Secrets movie review: blow all the whistles
Not a spy thriller but a story of emotional and intellectual suspense wrangling with matters of patriotism and of conscience, and of just how far journalism’s watchdog role can and should take it.
Matthew Goode
Downton Abbey movie review: embarrassment of riches
Wherein the working class revels in servitude, and wealth and privilege are deserved. Deeply reactionary and unlikely to please anyone not already enamored of the show. I get Anglophilia, but really?
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society movie review: the stories too painful to tell
A wonderfully old-fashioned tearjerker, with a thoroughly delightful cast, where cosy quaint Englishness is leavened by a harsh reality of World War II that pop culture has ignored.
Self/less movie review: mind/less, brain/less, point/less
Glances at fundamental questions of identity and humanity and decides that they are best resolved via fistfights, gun battles, and car chases.
Belle movie review: untold stories
Wonderful true story about a mixed-race woman raised in aristocratic late-18th-century England; like the best Jane Austen romance with a social conscience.
female gazing at: Matthew Goode
Don’t be jealous if I tell you I once knew a guy who looked a lot like Matthew Goode…
A Single Man (review)
Fashion designer Tom Ford has made the cinematic equivalent of a fashion magazine spread…
January 8: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, except you’re way too scared to actually ask out the girl you like. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, did you see Youth … more…
Leap Year (review)
I say it’s about time, as we enter the second decade of the 21st century, to put behind us all that nonsense about ‘feminism’ and undignified female self-determination. Yes, we ladies must at last put down our feet daintily clad in $600 shoes and say: No more.
watch it: “Screen Test: Matthew Goode”
Damn, it’s not embeddable, but you can watch it at the New York Times’ video subsite. Goode is the star of the new movie version of Bridehead Revisited, and he’s way more interesting than Charles Ryder, the character he plays in the film, who is as dull as dishwater. No, duller, actually. Plus, he talks … more…
