Can a film with George Clooney, Matt Damon, and Brad Pitt be all bad? Yes. Future generations will study Steven Soderbergh’s latest, Ocean’s Thirteen. Not future film scholars, of course,[…]
“What these Americans have could happen to us. And this is frightening.” Michael Moore’s Sicko begins with clips of what happens to Americans who don’t have health insurance. A man[…]
“The grafting on of the film’s film noir plot has a reductionist minimalism to it, as if Kaurismaki were sketching an archetype . . .” Aki Kaurismaki offers Lights in the Dusk[…]
Harry the Fifth comes in third OK, the latest Harry Potter — Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, to give the full name — isn’t a bad flick[…]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P9_0JEje8k] I’ve been thinking a lot about director Leo McCarey lately and, in particular, how so many of his movies , from the 1928 Laurel and Hardy short Two Tars[…]
Yes, Matt Groening and James L. Brooks are rich, rich white men, and thanks to The Simpsons Movie, they’re going to be even richer. Much as I would like to[…]
Most critics have approached Werner Herzog’s latest film Rescue Dawn with qualifying kid gloves, as if it would be impolite to question a late work from such a grand old[…]
Fans of Hong Kong action cinema have long had to wade through murky, treacherous terrain, even with the arrival of DVD: bad transfers, faded, junky prints, badly cropped pan&scan;[…]
A 5-hour epic film in two parts about a bride who swears vengeance on the conspirators who killed her husband. That’s Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill. It’s also an accurate description[…]
My shrink today was talking about how amphetamines gave Phillip K. Dick both paranoia and second sight, and maybe they tie into each other on some far out dimension. That[…]
The question one hears leaving the movie theater these days, assuming everyone enjoyed it is: Are you gonna buy it when it comes out on DVD?” Or you hear–or even[…]
With one, yeah, pretty major caveat I do have a major objection to Clint Eastwood’s new film Letters from Iwo Jima, but my first reaction is one of praise. After[…]
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Give us another naked nurse and some more explosions! Roger Corman, who turned 81 in April 2007, has assured his place in the history books several times over. As fast[…]
“By describing a conscience for James Bond the character, the story has provided a subconscious for James Bond the movies“ What do James Bond movies and American Football have in common? Well, for[…]
The evil that men do in a Fairfax County regional park I’ve had a lot of fun over the past few years ridiculing Hollywood’s lame attempts to capture — or[…]
“A brutal, slick game” Zodiac probably is more of a critic’s picture than an audience picture. Since it is about an actual serial killer — Zodiac, who terrorized Northern California[…]
“The blue Tron team delivers the red team the drubbing the Americans were never able to deliver the Soviets . . .” In 1980 the American Olympic ice hockey team, comprised mostly[…]
What we’re given is a sense that the structures of our civilisation have broken down . . .” Code Unknown (Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages, 2000), The Piano[…]
No Betty White, but funny! Blades of Glory is a winning, genial take on some of the grosser vanities and shortcomings of early 21st century America — most notably, the[…]
