Just in time for the Thanksgiving, Holiday Inn, the best instance of Bing Crosby in blackface you can get on digitally remastered DVD!
No, but seriously, this movie is kind of adorable (blackface aside). Jim (Crosby), Ted (Fred Astaire - who’s IMDB url is 0000001! cool! And who is also, turns out, an awesome dancer!) and Lila [...]
Beowulf in 3D cost like $3 more than Beowulf *not* in 3D. But it comes with glasses. In my opinion, there should be a lot more movies that come with accessories.
Besides that, I went into Beowulf with basically no expectations. Well, that’s kind of a lie because I basically expected it to suck. I was [...]
I watched (re-watched for about the umpteenth [who says UMPTEENTH?] time) Forget Paris on the same day I watched Miami Rhapsody. There is something about both of them that is distinctly Woody Allen-esque. This one specifically reminds me of Melinda & Melinda, mostly because there is this frame story of friends sitting around drinking and [...]
While all of our friends in the WGA are on strike, why not watch Best Friends, a heartwarming romantic comedy about two screenwriters and their tumultuous romance?
I’ll tell you why not: because it sucks.
Recipe for Miami Rhapsody
Take One (1) Annie Hall
Subtract 1 star (2.5 out of 4)
Substitute Sarah Jessica Parker for Woody Allen, some WASPy dude for Diane Keaton, Miami for Manhattan
Add a Mia Farrow/Antonio Banderas romance
Let simmer until sufficently charming and completely quotable:
I figure marriage is kind of like Miami: it’s hot and stormy, and occasionally a little [...]
Is it just me, or does this poster kind of give you a headache? It’s so busy and brash and loud and colorful but something is most definitely missing. It doesn’t make me think whimsy and magic, it just makes me glad I don’t have a kid to drag me to see this cheesy piece of crap.
Ira Glass basically forced me to watch How’s Your News? because he talked about it for a while on This American Life about a thousand years ago when I could still podcast. So I got it from Netflix and it sat on top of my DVD player for 2 or 3 weeks until I tried to [...]
In case you’re living in a cave or the Midwest (same diff), the WGA went on strike yesterday. Let’s take a moment to collect our thoughts and mourn what might be the last few episodes of Private Practice.
Done? Let’s move on.
This strike is going to have no tangible effect on my life. And you know [...]
Do you ever hear the premise of a movie and feel really compelled by it to the point that you get a ‘that was a good movie’ feeling without even having seen it? This is how I felt about the very vague idea I had about Sweet November. I remembered it was supposed to be [...]
UPDATE: Remember how I was smitten with Carina Chocano like 2 weeks ago for her sort of neo-feminist Hollywood commentary in the LA Times? Her ‘review’ of Southland Tales is so lame, I’m going to have to retract my statement. Not like she gives it a thumbs up or anything, but it’s just so unimpressive. Try [...]