watch it: if Wes Anderson made Men in Black III
Mash up the trailers for Men in Black III and Moonrise Kingdom, and it becomes a nice little exercise in how much music and color impact mood.
Tommy Lee Jones
question of the day: Are you more likely to head to the multiplex on a holiday weekend?
Or do you prefer to avoid the crowds that turn up then? Are some holidays better than others for moviegoing?
Men in Black III (review)
A time travel plot can feel like a huge narrative swindle if not handled correctly. But there’s no big do-over button hovering over this tale. Nope: the timey-wimey stuff here is clever, funny, thrilling, even poignant.
Men in Black III (trailer)
Please, universe and whatever else there is, let this not suck.
Captain America: The First Avenger (great movie quotes)
“And the Fuhrer digs for trinkets in the desert…” –Red Skull (Hugo Weaving) (and more)
Captain America: The First Avenger (review)
It’s now a tossup whether the best comic-book superhero movie of 2011 is X-Men: First Class or Captain America: First Avenger… But I’m leaning toward Captain America.
Captain America: The First Avenger (second trailer)
Yea! A glimpse of Richard Armitage!
Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2010 EDA Awards nominees
The AWFJ is one of the critics’ groups I belong to; my input helped determine these nominees, and I will vote in the final balloting to narrow it down to the winners. I still have to watch a few of these nominees…
question of the weekend: What worries you most about the BP oil spill?
Sure, it’s a nightmare that keeps getting worse. It has ruined, perhaps irreversibly, environments that cannot be replaced. It has revealed the extent of how transnational corporations rule us: after arranging for legislation that practically guaranteed such a disaster was inevitable, BP is now in charge of the situation, down to dictating orders to the … more…
September 11: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but it’s all this settling back down into pre-autumnal routine has got you exhausted. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, did you check … more…
