Thor (review)
I knew it! I knew Kenneth Branagh was a geek. Oh, sure, he got famous for all that snooty Shakespeare stuff, but deep down, he’s mad for comic books and superheroes and all that pulp-fiction stuff. He’s a dork.
Natalie Portman
Your Highness (review)
It’s one thing to say that Hollywood scoops up indie filmmakers, chews them up, and spits out McG and Brett Ratner clones, which absolutely happens. But that’s on a whole ’nother level to what it has done to David Gordon Green. Someone took the most glorious bottle of vintage champagne and whipped up Tang mimosas.
question of the day: Does it make any difference to ‘Black Swan’ if Natalie Portman did not do most of the dancing herself?
I never thought Mark Hamill was really flying an X-wing. I never thought Ray Liotta was actually a gangster. But the collective power of the movie surrounding them created the illusion that they were. Some of that illusion is created by actors, some by special FX, some by other people talented in myriad ways. Surely what matters is the total illusion, not the breakdown of who created which part of it. Or am I wrong?
Adult Swim is killing; 80s flicks that shaped our world today; can gays play straight?; and more: leftover links
Plus: too many depressing links about the Charlie Sheen feeding frenzy…
question of the day: How should we punish dirty slut Natalie Portman for glamorizing out-of-wedlock pregnancy?
Have you heard? That dirty dirty slut Natalie Portman has done a bad thing. No, not have sex — though she did do that bad thing, the nasty whore — but parade around at the Oscars looking beautiful and happy even though her belly is swollen with a bastard child. How dare she!
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…
wtf: Natalie Portman shouldn’t want to win an Oscar?!
Of course not, insists John Luchetti at The Film Stage. Because it’ll ruin her love life. *grrr*
Black Swan (review)
I’m not entirely sure how much of what we see in Black Swan actually exists beyond the fevered imagination of the protagonist. And that perilous hold on reality is far from the only thing to love about this gorgeously horrific nightmare.
Armond White makes Annette Bening cry; Fight Club: The Musical?; Wal-Mart woos NYC with ad campaign; more: leftover links
Plus: Will Natalie Portman’s pregnancy win her an Oscar?; watch out for ‘Ghost Rider 2’; accusations of fraud and corruption at the Golden Globes; more…
trailer break: ‘Your Highness’
Rumor has it this is meant to be a comedy. I don’t see it, myself. Unless… oh, I get it: Your Highness. It’s a pot joke. Oh, that is clever.
