Oz the Great and Powerful (review)
Exactly what you expect it to be. Unless you were expecting some Sam Raimi nutso. (new DVD/VOD US/Can)
Michelle Williams
The Artist will have a good night (and other Oscar predictions)
Here’s an at-a-glance look at my picks for tomorrow night’s Academy Awards…
My Week with Marilyn (trailer)
Dare I hope that this will be a movie about a real woman, and not about an imaginary mirage of a fantasy of a woman?
Colin Firth and Natalie Portman are Oscar shoo-ins; everything else up for grabs: Oscar predictions
Here’s an at-a-glance look at my picks for Sunday night’s Academy Awards — projected winners are Xed. Keep in mind: this isn’t a list of whom I think should win Oscars but whom I think will win…
Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2010 EDA Awards nominees
The AWFJ is one of the critics’ groups I belong to; my input helped determine these nominees, and I will vote in the final balloting to narrow it down to the winners. I still have to watch a few of these nominees…
wtf: “Michelle Williams Gains 15 lbs. for New Movie Role”
When I first saw that headline, I wondered what role this was referring to. But I can’t believe it’s Blue Valentine. Michelle Williams gained weight for this part? Where?
question of the day: What if we abolished the MPAA?
The latest fracas involving the MPAA — the board that rates films for release in the United States — concerns the indie Blue Valentine, which has received an NC-17 rating for its sexual content, which is actually fairly minimal and mostly not terribly, you know, sexy. The film does, however, feature an instance of a man pleasuring a woman orally…
just received: ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ ‘Sherri: The Complete Season One,’ ‘Rita Rocks: The Complete Season One,’ ‘Hannah Free,’ ‘Mammoth,’ ‘Uncertainty’
A quick rundown of the screeners and DVDs that came in yesterday and today. Might review some of these… Pride and Prejudice: The 1995 BBC TV version with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle, coming in a new restored edition in Region 1 on April 27 from A&E Home Entertainment. [preorder in Region 1 from Amazon … more…
question of the day: How movie-nerd-a-riffic can you get?
Surely I am not the only dork who, upon seeing a picture of the new observation module astronauts just installed on the International Space Station, thought, “Holy crap, they turned the ISS into a TIE fighter!” And I thought that was pretty nerdy. But it’s not much compared to the lengths some film geeks will … more…
Wendy and Lucy (review)
The first great joy of this tart little portrait is Michelle Williams’s achingly contradictory performance as Wendy…
