The Amazing Spider-Man (review)
The Amazing Spider-Man? That’s a stretch. More like the Halfhearted Spider-Man. The Just-Sorta-There Spider-Man. The Familiar Spider-Man…
New York City
Men in Black III (review)
A time travel plot can feel like a huge narrative swindle if not handled correctly. But there’s no big do-over button hovering over this tale. Nope: the timey-wimey stuff here is clever, funny, thrilling, even poignant.
2 Days in New York (review)
If there’s one thing I learned from Julie Delpy’s wonderfully eccentric dramedy, it’s that Parisians are as neurotic as New Yorkers. Who knew?
The Dictator (review)
A stunning failure, certainly compared to Borat and Bruno. Sacha Baron Cohen is clearly aware of whom the targets of his satiric ire should be, but he couldn’t figure out how to make it work.
Avengers Assemble (aka Marvel’s The Avengers) (review)
How many superheroes spoil the broth? More than six, apparently, at least when Joss Whedon is wrangling them.
Safe movie review: New York noir
A viciously cynical dark fantasy that fashions a new mythos of post-9/11 New York, a bleak but plausible world of the Russian mob, the Chinese Triads, and the NYPD as another gang vying for supremacy.
Doctor Who thing of the day: the Doctor and Amy in Times Square (and tons of pix from the NYC shoot)
No spoilers, just geeky fun.
Doctor Who thing of the day: Season 7 episode to be shot in New York City
And it’s gonna be an epic battle with the Weeping Angels. O. M. G.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (review)
I appreciate that many people have many problems with this movie, but I confess that I don’t quite understand them…
Carnage (review)
Sometimes it’s easy to separate the artist from his art. Roman Polanksi’s latest makes this really tough.
