documentaries for understanding how we got President Trump, and for ensuring we never get him or his like again
A free first peek at zeitgeisty film roundups to come…
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I’m loving LoveFilm
I’m tickled to discover how many great films are being added all the time to Lovefilm’s streaming service, like these new classics…
teh womminz, they are so silly for their complaininz — just ask Cate Blanchett
Gotta love how W magazine frames the awesome graciousness that is Cate Blanchett in its new cover article about her: Maybe because she never aimed to become a movie star, Blanchett is the rare actress who does not lament the lack of good film roles for women. “I didn’t go into the industry expecting to … more…
new DVD releases in Region 1 and Region 2, week of March 16, 2009
Still trying to find the best way to highlight new releases. My most recent previous format was too text-heavy and too repetitious of what I’ve already said. So I’m trying a pared-down version. Lemme know what you think, or if you think this is still too repetitive. I always highlight new DVD releases in the … more…
new on DVD (Region 1 and Region 2): week of February 9
Out February 9 in Region 2: • Burn After Reading [buy at Amazon U.K.]. From my green light review: Chad is one of those grand force-of-nature characters, like Chigurh, who cannot help but be at the center of something extraordinary — it just so happens that where he goes when he takes the reins is … more…
totally quotable! 2008
Here are the most quotable movie lines of the year 2008. I didn’t mean to hold these till the movie year was over — it just sort of happened that way. I’ll return to posting quotes as I hear them for 2009. No ranking — quotes are posted in reverse order of movie release dates, … more…
U.K. box office: James Bond still a killer
New films stayed out of the way of Quantum of Solace at British multiplexes this past weekend, which looks to have been a wise move: 1. Quantum of Solace: £9.2 million (2nd week; drops 40%) 2. High School Musical 3: Senior Year: £1.5 million (3rd week; drops 45%) 3. Ghost Town: £.71 million (3rd week; … more…
W. (review)
Surely this is the greatest satire of the American presidency ever made for film. It’s kinda like *Being There,* but far more terrifying: instead of a wise, gentle idiot becoming president, here it’s an incurious, perpetually adolescent idiot who ascends to the highest office in the land. Surely this would be a horror story if it were true…
my week at the movies: ‘Sex Drive,’ ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas,’ ‘W.,’ ‘Max Payne,’ ‘What Just Happened,’ ‘How to Lose Friends and Alienate People’
I was sorta dreading Sex Drive (opens wide in the U.S. October 17; opens in the U.K. January 9, 2009) — which is about a high school student who drives across the country to have sex with a woman he only knows from the Internet — until I discovered that it’s the first big film … more…
5 reasons I’m psyched for ‘W.’
All this week! 5 movies I’m psyched for in October, and 5 reasons why. No. 5: W. [opens limited October 17]. 1. Oliver Stone can be a nut — see JFK — but he’s a highly entertaining nut: JFK may be a complete fantasy (I’m not saying it is for sure, just that it may … more…
