Red Lights (review)
This ridiculous flick wants to have its pseudoscience cake and eat it too…
Sigourney Weaver
question of the day: What makes a film “female-friendly”?
Bonus points if you can figure out why no one worries about films being “male-friendly.”
The Cold Light of Day (trailer)
I had this deep thought recently: Sigourney Weaver is the new Gene Hackman.
Abduction (review)
I’m so excited cuz it’s like Taylor Lautner made a movie just for Team Jacob! Except he’s not a werewolf or anything silly or fantasy like that — he’s a real teenager with real problems. Like being the secret child of top international spies.
Paul (review)
What if you and your most superbly geeky bestest friend ever met an alien? I mean a real life honest-to-Carl Sagan extry terrestrial. What if? You would plotz. You would. Like Nick Frost’s Clive does here, you would giggle like a loon and then faint, out cold from the sheer splendidness of this happenstance. I know I would.
cinematic roots of: ‘Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps’
In Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) returns to slime his adorably retro evil high finance all over a new generation of hotshot young MBAs, including Shia LaBeouf. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
cinematic roots of: ‘You Again’
In You Again, Jamie Lee Curtis must confront her high-school nemesis (Sigourney Weaver again) while her daughter (Kristen Bell) does the same on the occasion of a family wedding. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
question of the day: Are genre movies getting more respect these days, and if so, why?
Today’s question comes from reader doa766: Why are Avatar and District 9 getting so much critical and awards recognition now when neither Aliens or Blade Runner got any when they were released? is it because highbrow, art or oscar bait movies have decreased in quality? is it because of a generational and average age change … more…
question of the day: Are movies and vices made for each other?
What’s the latest bullshit Avatar “criticism”? It promotes smoking. You know, because Sigourney Weaver smokes in the film and she’s also one of the good guys, that automatically means that James Cameron took a gazillion dollars from Big Tobacco to hook all the poor little childrens on the cancer stick. Cameron has responded to this … more…
Avatar movie review: biological diplomacy
The closest I will ever come to visiting another planet, and what an exhilarating trip.
