The Angry Birds Movie movie review: what the shell?
What the heck is this? Some sort of meninist political statement attempting to vindicate male anger? In a kids’ movie? Maybe men shouldn’t make movies…
Sean Penn
The Gunman movie review: the yawn identity
A tired old piece of action junk that expects us to sympathize with a very bad man. We don’t.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty review: Ben Stiller’s excellent adventure
A cheery, airy fairy tale filled with a very modern ache and buoyed by an infectious joy. I love this movie.
Gangster Squad (review)
Gangster Squad! In color! This is blustery postwar mythologizing about the violent birth of the modern metropolis, all pulpy-bright even when it’s night…
ha! Sean Penn doesn’t like ‘Tree of Life’ either
”Frankly, I’m still trying to figure out what I’m doing there and what I was supposed to add in that context!” says the actor…
The Tree of Life (review)
Tree of life? Tree of sanctimonious mopey male egotism disguised as a search for meaning, more like. Or a search for God. Or for nostalgia. Or for innocence. Or for Mom. Or for something.
The Tree of Life (trailer)
Having now seen the film, I can say that this trailer is more moving and more coherent than the film itself.
question of the day: Who should play Moe in the Farrelly Brothers’ Three Stooges movie?
Peter and Bobby Farrelly have cast MadTV’s Will Sasso as Curly and Will & Grace’s Sean Hayes as Larry. Will it be someone from the small screen as Moe, too? And who should it be?
female gazing extra: “Men in Film”
A hundred years of handsome Hollywood hotties, from Douglas Fairbanks Sr. to George Clooney, in three and a half minutes…
Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2010 EDA Award winners
Lots of love for The Social Network, Black Swan, and The Kids Are All Right…
