Murder on the Orient Express movie review: strangers on a train
Doubly dated, lacking in humor and subtext, its impressive cast deliberately underutilized, this is little more than an exercise in gorgeous production design.
Willem Dafoe
The Great Wall movie review: not to be torn down
Plain pure fun. At its best, it’s Lord of the Rings meets Aliens, with incredible imaginative grandeur and genuinely breathtaking 3D depth.
The Fault in Our Stars movie review: girl’s own fantasy
Yes, it’s a teenaged girl’s romantic fantasy. And some of it might be in a secret code for young women. Imagine that.
Out of the Furnace review: brothers in yawns
A pungent reek of testosterone stinks up this high-toned apologetic for vigilantism and revenge. Still: great performances! (new DVD/VOD US/Can)
Odd Thomas review: tonight, on a very special episode…
It feels smaller and more rushed — and less plausible — than it should, but Anton Yelchin is charming, and the snappy comic tone sometimes works.
A Most Wanted Man clip: one of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s last performances
Based on a novel by John le Carré, and just debuted at Sundance.
John Carter (review)
This dreary Disneyfied inconsequence features all the bigotries of century-old pulp fiction and none of the romance, neither the sexual nor the adventurous kind…
Daybreakers (review)
It’s the perfect, ultimate, brilliant extrapolation of the vampire conceit: What happens once almost everyone’s a vampire, unturned humans are nearly extinct, and the tastiest, most satisfying blood — the human kind — is running out?
trailer break: ‘Daybreakers’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… The January release date is not encouraging, but I like this trailer. I like the new take on the very old vampire tropes. I like that this is from brothers Michael and Peter Spierig, who made the surprisingly poignant Undead on the cheap a few years ago … more…
my week at the movies: ‘Antichrist,’ ‘The Final Destination,’ ‘The Damned United,’ ‘American Casino,’ ‘The Baader Meinhof Complex’
Oh boy, I’m gonna get a look at Lars von Trier’s latest, the now notorious Antichrist (opens in the U.S. on October 23; available on DVD in Region 2 on November 23) this week. I’m sort of dreading it, but in a good way — does that make sense? At least Willem Dafoe is pretty … more…
