Man on a Ledge (review)
Well. Rarely has a movie been so accurately named. Man on a Ledge is very much about a man on a ledge. And not much more…
New York City
The Sitter (review)
I’m starting to wonder, truly and sincerely, if David Gordon Green is suffering from one of those brain tumors that radically alters one’s personality…
Pariah (review)
Writer-director Dee Rees, in an assured feature debut, expands on her award-winning 2007 short of the same name to tell a story all but ignored in pop culture: the coming out of a black teen lesbian.
Shame (review)
Strips away the bullshit to the bare, spare truth: what pop culture typically feeds us as “ordinary” male sexuality is probably worthy of a psychiatric diagnosis.
must reads: “‘New Year’s Eve’: 10 Things That Could Never Happen as They Happened”
Lest today’s QOTD be misinterpreted as any sort of defense of New Year’s Eve, I invite you to join me in guffawing along with Mandi Bierly at PopWatch at the movie’s ridiculous mala-Big Apple-isms…
New Year’s Eve (review)
What are you doing New Year’s eve? Not seeing this cheap, lazy excuse for a movie, I hope…
question of the day: What great historical figures would you like to see in a story set in the present day?
Prompted by my initial misunderstanding as to why Daniel Day-Lewis was wearing jeans and a sweater to play Abraham Lincoln…
question of the day: Is it fair to be upset that Jennifer Lopez’s new Fiat ad was not shot in the Bronx?
Advertising works on at least the veneer of truth and plausibility. Is the real issue here that this ad strips away the polite fiction that ads tell the truth?
things you need to know: your favorite actor isn’t sexy unless ‘People’ magazine says so
You probably didn’t know that you’re not allowed to get turned on by someone who isn’t this year’s Sexiest Man or Woman Alive…
Tower Heist movie review: Bastille on the Hudson
For a film critic, there are few pleasures more satisfying than ripping into a bad movie. But one of those few is discovering that a film that you were expecting to hate — a movie that you had no doubts whatsoever would turn out to be utterly awful — turns out to be wonderful.
