Where Are the Women? rating criteria explained (updated!)
Supplementary explanations for my Where Are the Women? rating criteria. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Salt
Haywire (review)
There’s a lot of fight in Haywire, but very little punch — it starts to feel very grim and plodding…
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…
question of the day: Which actors deserve to be bigger stars than they are?
Peter Bradshaw at the *Guardian*’s Film blog the other day asked, ‘Why isn’t *Salt* star Chiwetel Ejiofor up there with Russell Crowe?’ Which is an excellent question.
on my radar: opening 08.18-20.10 in U.K. theaters
Anything it takes Stallone *and* a gang of badasses to do in *The Expendables,* Angelina Jolie can do all on her own in *Salt*…
trailer break: ‘Flipped’
Looks cute enough, and it’s from director Rob Reiner…
question of the day: How do you cope with ‘cinematicus interruptus’?
I’m stealing today’s question directly from Peter Martin at Cinematical, because it’s simply too perfect.
deep thought (re watching one’s words while guesting on a talk show)
Liev Schreiber should be required to sit still for a burn from Jon Stewart’s new goatee for spoiling *Salt* on *The Daily Show* tonight.
quick list: five great spy movies
Do you guys like lists? I tried doing a daily list a while back, and it never seemed to connect with you all. Plus it was a lot a work because I tried to be too comprehensive, too definitive. But maybe a quicker hit of a list — and ones that didn’t pretend to be … more…
