In Fabric movie review: retail shock therapy
A murderous dress and creepy shop clerks add up to nothing more than exhausting nonsense full of fetishizing of women and weirdness for weird’s sake alone. Consumerism is killing us, or something.
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Big Miracle (trailer)
Whales are stuck in ice in the Arctic! And people think global warming is a bad thing! Won’t someone think of the whales? Free Willy!
new this week in U.S., Canadian, and U.K. theaters: ‘Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time,’ ‘Sex and the City 2,’ ‘The Losers,’ ‘[REC] 2,’ more
U.S. AND CANADA/OPENING WIDE Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time: It’s tanking in the U.K., and now it gets a shot at tanking in North America. [trailer] review to come If you can’t make it to the multiplex, try: • Big Trouble in Little China (1986): In which Kurt Russell goes up against an … more…
bias update
obsession: still Doctor Who (most recent episode blogging: “Midnight” — yes, I’m behind) boyfriend: David Tennant as the Doctor (see my summer of Tennant and Hamlet) psyched: absolutely nothing (because it’s the dead end of summer) dreading: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (what, the first one wasn’t torture enough?) enemy: Eddie Murphy, and … more…
Shortcuts
These reviews have moved — sorry for the inconvenience. The Best of Tokyo Pig The Biggest Fan The Boys & Girl from County Clare The Devil’s Rejects Fat Actress: The Complete First Season The 40 Year-Old Virgin Heights The House of Eliott: Series One Kontroll Lords of Dogtown Moonlighting: Seasons One and Two Prefab People … more…
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (review)
Well, hooray for a movie about girls doing their own thing. Too bad it’s more like a training-bra of a flick designed to indoctrinate tweens with the estrogen-drenched sappiness of “women’s pop culture” — you know, like Oprah magazine and Lifetime Original movies and Celine Dion ballads — than a story that deals with the … more…
