Date Night (review)
That Carell and Fey manage to maintain their gosh-darn likeability is the most surprising thing about this otherwise aggressively mediocre flick.
Tina Fey
trailer break: ‘Date Night’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Oh. My. God. It’s like someone made a CGI action comedy about, I dunno, squirrels who think they’re secret agents, and then digitally removed the squirrels and replaced them with live actors. It’s like the opposite of motion capture to create a cartoon. I would like to … more…
Kirstie Alley’s Scientology diet; the Tinseltown closet; Tina Fey, sex goddess: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
question of the day: What did you think of the Oscars?
Okay, time for the postmortem. Did any award surprise you? (Nominees and winners here.) Who gave the best speech? (It was Sandra Bullock, wasn’t it?) Which movie do you feel like you really have to see now? What was the funniest moment of the ceremony? (Tina Fey and Robert Downey Jr. on writers, I think.) … more…
Oscar hosts: Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin
The question of the other day — Who should host the Oscars now that Hugh Jackman has stepped down? — has been answered: Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will cohost, according to The Los Angeles Times: Martin, who hosted the 73rd and 75th Oscar ceremony, said in a statement: “I am happy to co-host the … more…
The Invention of Lying (review)
It’s rare that a film — especially a studio film — does this: goes so far in a direction you weren’t even expecting it would go in at all that the shock of it is doubled.
my week at the movies: ‘Love Happens,’ ‘A Serious Man,’ ‘The Invention of Lying,’ ‘I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell’
Weird how it feels like a “slow” week when I’ve got “only” four movies on my slate. Four movies, that is, in a screening room, which isn’t counting all the press roundtables I’m doing this week, and the stack of DVDs I want to get to, and the IFC movies available on demand I’d like … more…
Ponyo (review)
Oh dear. What’s happened to Hayao Miyazaki, the master of beautiful, poignant, deeply weird and profoundly philosophical Japanese animation? Has he lost his touch? Is the magic gone?
Oscar after party
My luck at predicting the Oscar may not have been so hot this year — though I’m not sure it ever is — but I did get one thing sorta right. I said over at Film.com on Friday that if there was going to be an upset this year, it would be in the Best … more…
watch it: that Tina Fey-does-Sarah Palin SNL sketch
I swear, everywhere I went yesterday, the only thing everyone was talking about was Tina Fey’s postironic smackdown of Sarah Palin. (I call it postironic because it’s virtually indistinguishable from Sarah Palin simply being Sarah Palin, which in itself would be laughable if she weren’t on the verge of being President Palin, which is simply … more…
