The Judge movie review: you can go home again
Avoids feeling as supremely calculated as it is, perhaps because Robert Downey Jr.’s snark and Robert Duvall’s crusty pragmatism vaccinate against it.
Vera Farmiga
The Conjuring review: they make me believe
Smart, stylish horror flick, though a standout more for its elegant performances than any original scares.
The Conjuring trailers: why I’m looking forward to yet another haunted house flick
Vera Farmiga. Patrick Wilson. Lili Taylor. Ron Livingston. With a cast like that, I’m there.
Goats (trailer)
No idea what to make of this. But I like David Duchovy and Vera Farmiga, so I’ll check it out.
Safe House (review)
Oo oo oo, it’s CIA action porn when Safe House finally gets going, all mysterious black SUVs and “kill the surveillance cameras” and stoic badassery all round…
about that ‘Source Code’ ending…
WARNING: This post spoils the ending of Source Code. Don’t read any further if you haven’t seen the film, unless you don’t care if the ending is ruined for you.
trailer break: ‘Henry’s Crime’
Ooo, a kooky Keanu Reeves movie, and I missed it on both sides of the Atlantic.
Source Code (review)
If you haven’t already seen 2009’s Moon, I beg you to do so before you see Source Code, which will put you off director Duncan Jones, which wouldn’t be fair to you, to Jones, or to Moon.
cinematic roots of: ‘Case 39’
In Case 39, Renee Zellweger plays a social worker who rescues a child (Jodelle Ferland) from abusive parents only to discover that perhaps it was the demon child who was abusing her guardians. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
Oscar predictions: ‘The Hurt Locker’ won’t be hurting
UPDATED: Winners are indicated with ♦s. I made informed guesses in 20 of the 24 categories; of those, I guessed 12 correctly. (Well, 13, really, except that in the animated short category in the original version of this page, I had both “The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)” and “Logorama” checked … more…
