Blackhat movie review: broken code
This mysteriously misbegotten flick should be a gritty 10-hour miniseries so it would have time to explore its ideas and potentially fascinating characters.
Michael Mann
North American box office: ‘Transformers 2’ continues to steamroll the competition
Bad-ass robots are the spirit of the Fourth of July? *sigh*: 1. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: $42.3 million (2nd week; drops 61%) 2. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: $41.7 million (NEW) 3. Public Enemies: $25.3 million (NEW) 4. The Proposal: $12.9 million (3rd week; drops 31%) 5. The Hangover: $11.3 million actual numbers, … more…
question of the day: Why the hell is Harvey Weinstein reviewing movies?
Isn’t this like having Quincy Jones review music? Or Catherine de Medici review fine arts? Harvey Weinstein is reviewing movies, at Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast (that’s like Huffington Post, a refuge for all those poor celebrities with no other outlets for their voices, except the Beast does pay, as long as you sign away … more…
Public Enemies (review)
I’m wildly intrigued by *Public Enemies* even though I readily concede that character development is all but nonexistent, and that it leaves me more wanting to know who notorious bank robber John Dillinger was than I did before I went into the film.
trailer break: ‘Public Enemies’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Remember: It’s wrong — it’s totally wrong — to glamorize crime and criminals. That’s why John Dillinger, who was a bad man, a very bad man, is being played by ultrasexy Johnny Depp. So that no one gets the idea that criminals are sexy. Yes, this trailer … more…
best writing and direction of 2004: cut and print…
BEST DIRECTOR Lars von Trier, Dogville Ever a risktaker, Lars von Trier took one of the biggest risks onscreen in 2004 with a determinedly uncinematic film that was also unabashedly political — a breathtaking and refreshingly daring combination in an era of play-it-safe “entertainment.” Setting his cast and his scene on a bare, black-box stage, … more…
best and worst movies of 2004 (and why I’m gonna spend a lot of money on DVDs)
Damn, but I had a good time at the movies this year. I sat through a lot of cinematic toxic waste, it’s true, but I also had a tough time winnowing down my best-of list to only ten films: the top 25 or 30 films in my annual ranking delighted me, made me laugh, moved … more…
Collateral movie review: eat it up
I cannot express to you how much I love how Michael Mann’s movies look and feel, but I love it so much I can practically taste it. It’s an actual palpable thrill, my reaction to them.
The Insider movie review: up close and personal
The Insider, Michael Mann, Marie Brenner, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vanity Fair, Eric Roth, Al Pacino, Lowell Bergman, Russell Crowe, Jeffrey Wigand, Christopher Plummer, Mike Wallace, Diane Venora, Philip Baker Hall, Don Hewitt, Gina Gershon, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Brown and Williamson, Brown & Williamson, tobacco, cigarette, 60 Minutes, CBS, television, journalism, journalist, whistleblower, whistleblowing
