FilmFemme

I Am Legend.
Will Smith is ripped.
Dogs are awesome.
Chicks suck at surviving the apocalypse. 

Ok, maybe I’m on some totally misogynistic kick because like, my estrogen levels are depleted or something crazy, but once again, I hated this totally woman-centric ‘documentary’:  Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project.  So, the movie was actually made by a couple of dudes (if I’m remembering right, because IMDb sure doesn’t know) but it’s about this [...]

Friends with Money came on TV last night.  I had been wanting to see it (I like Catherine Keener and am a little smitten with Jennifer Aniston.  I mean, come on, who isn’t?) so I watched it all the way through. 
It’s telling that this is the first review where I felt compelled to add an [...]

I can’t remember seeing a movie that elicited more nervous laughter than No Country for Old Men.  I myself was completely terrified of Javier Bardem.  (See my upcoming review of Mondays in the Sun if you want to know my more lurid thoughts on him).
Seriously, though.  I saw this about a million years ago. So: [...]

Love Story
What can you say about a movie that totally sucks?  Where the characters are in love, but you kind of hate both of them?
Love means never having to say you’re sorry? That doesn’t even make sense!
P.S., I Love You
Pass the Kleenex.  Yes, I cried because Hilary Swank’s husband is dead and she has to [...]

[Poster not shown because it makes me hate John C. Riley, which is a bad thing]
This movie kind of shocked me by being funny. Funny with a very on-the-nose, Airplane-esque silliness (Riley plays Cox at age 12 and up, which is handled by constantly mentioning his age (”But Dewey, you’re only 14!!!”)). Also, it’s worth [...]

New York Doll
Directed by Greg Whiteley, New York Doll is a documentary about Arthur “Killer” Kane, one of the founding members and bassist for seminal punk band, the New York Dolls.  It seems that after the Dolls broke up, Kane was in a pretty bad state.  Hopelessly alcoholic and without any real direction, he went [...]

Wondering how to leave your lover?
Make them watch How to Leave Your Lover, then they’ll leave you!
Get it? Cause this movie sucks.
Owen (Paul Schneider) is a single writer in Los Angeles (omg, I’m sure the writer/director wasn’t drawing from his own experiences) who finally decides to “break up with his life” and leave L.A.  But in line [...]

I really miss the days when it was totally acceptable for someone who looked like Dexter Fletcher (nice name!) to be the romantic lead opposite Ione Skye at the peak of her hotness. Actually, no, I don’t. But such was the world in 1989 and it was this world that brought us The Rachel Papers [...]

First of all, I am totally susceptible to cartoony-posters like this one.  I love them and they make me think “Ooh!  Quirky but heartwarming with clever dialogue and subtle but deliberate performances!”  I am probably reading too much into that.  Anyway, the names Laura Linney and Phillip Seymour Hoffman make me think similar thoughts.  So [...]