The Founder movie review: look at what the golden arches hath wrought
Rather brilliant and kind of inspiring until it turns frightening and even sinister. A dark tale of the beginning of end-stage capitalism as profit above all.
Saving Mr Banks
my guesses for Sunday night’s 86th Academy Awards
Winners are indicated. I got 16/24. Pretty good, if I may say so myself.
Saving Mr. Banks review: behold the unclassic curmudgeon
A smart, snappy, soulful look at how Mary Poppins got Disneyfied, and the redemptive power of story for both teller and listener.
London photo of the day: setting up Mr. Banks
As we press stumbled out of our early-morning screening of Saving Mr. Banks today, workmen were transforming the cinema for its world-premiere gala screening later in the evening.
cannot contain my excitement for the London Film Festival
I’m hyperventilating from the array of overwhelming movie awesomeness before me.
Saving Mr. Banks trailer: Tom Hanks as Walt Disney? oh my god yes
Also: Emma Thompson and Paul Giamatti in anything, obviously.
