Oblivion movie review: Jetsons parody or Ikea commercial?
Postcard-pretty, unusual for a science fiction flick, but shockingly derivative.
Tron Legacy
Sci-Fi-London Easter parade fun! Part I
Check out an undead Harry Potter, the requisite Boba Fett, a scary bunny, and more, all parading along London’s Southbank on Easter Sunday…
best and worst movie quotes of 2010
Oh yeah, I’m late with this. I carefully gather them all year long and then I never get around to posting them. So here they are at long last. And for 2011, I’m just gonna post ’em as they come in. So there.
Colin Firth and Natalie Portman are Oscar shoo-ins; everything else up for grabs: Oscar predictions
Here’s an at-a-glance look at my picks for Sunday night’s Academy Awards — projected winners are Xed. Keep in mind: this isn’t a list of whom I think should win Oscars but whom I think will win…
the worst movies of 2010
I’ve finally gotten through the last few films I needed to see for the year, and am now able to definitively declare that of the 208 new theatrical releases I saw during the award year (which doesn’t really end till the Oscars are handed out next month), these 10 are the very worst of the lot…
Country Strong (review)
There’s solid workmanship and an authentic emotional muscle in this movie. I was startled to find myself overwhelmed, eventually, by its ragged charms and its rough-edged vision of female power and pain.
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…
Tron: Legacy (review)
This totally superfluous and eminently forgettable sequel to the groundbreaking 1982 flick Tron will make a bloody fortune, not because it embodies any qualities deserving of such, but out of compelling nostalgia and, well, not much else.
Fox News has no sense of humor; where the heck is the original ‘Tron’?; entire ‘Walking Dead’ writing staff fired; more: leftover links
Plus: political activism lands Mark Ruffalo on terror watchlist; jail time for modifying Xbox 360s; BP will make a movie about Gulf oil spill; more…
trailer break: ‘Tron Legacy’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Looks like it’s gonna be 3D trailers all week long… I love this idea: Throw Legacy onto the end of any old movie when you remake/reboot it for that touch of class and elegance. Electric Boogaloo Legacy. Red Dawn Legacy. Teen Witch Legacy. Try it: it works … more…
