If you live in L.A., read this blog, and don’t know about American Cinematheque, well honestly, you probably don’t exist, but if you do! Check them out because they have a lot of (some) cool programs and some REALLY cool ones. Last year I went to a screening of The Dark Knight with a Q&A [...]
If you haven’t seen Avatar, there are a lot of reasons that you should. It’s technically and visually spectacular. It’s made a billion dollars (not like, “Haha — it made like a billion dollars!” but actually, literally, a billion dollars). So that means it probably is some kind of cultural touchstone now so that if [...]
I’ve gotten to the point in my tenure as a Netflix customer (I like how they call it “member” like it’s exclusive) where movies will show up in my queue and I will have no idea what my thought process was when I decided to add them. Such was the case when Overnight showed up [...]
Hola, amigos. What up? I know it’s been a long time since I rapped at ya, but I got real busy re-reading all the Jim Anchower columns over at the Onion. Then I smoked a huge bowl and two weeks later, here we are with a much delayed review of Star Trek. I might catch [...]
Though most reviews of The Day the Earth Stood Still may focus on the cheap-looking visual effects, the predictably wooden acting, the melodramatic and awful writing or the painfully obnoxious Jaden Smith, I think that it’s important to look at the brilliant comedic aspect of this sci-fi remake. Namely, Keanu Reeves speaking Chinese was hands [...]
Home Alone “Man, that kid is SMART!” Shooter “I thought the dude was gonna die, but then he didn’t.” Must Love Dogs [insert sound of him leaving the room]
Casino Royale is a divisive Bond film. There are a lot of young people like me who didn’t know anyone but Pierce Brosnan as Bond and never really got excited about the genre that he defined. For these people, Casino Royale and the First Blonde Bond marked an exciting change and made a new, if tentative, [...]
I saw this movie a while ago and I liked this movie. Yeah, no, I really did. I like Hellboy’s devil-may-care (I know, grooooaaaan) attitude. I liked Selma Blair’s nearly inexplicable righteous indignation at nonsuperhumans (not to mention her cute hair and the fact that she’s in panties for half of her screen time). I even [...]
Me every time I see a billboard or bus poster for Wanted: “Is this a poster for a movie? It looks like it wants to be a movie … but clearly isn’t. Maybe it’s an urban-crime miniseries on the CW, or the very-special Smallville two-part season finale, or … a breakfast cereal?
So, I saw two movies in the row where Liv Tyler ends up in a plaid shirt, struggling to move while she’s face down on the ground. That’s kind of odd. I liked The Strangers. I hated The Incredible Hulk. So I still don’t know how I feel about Liv Tyler on the ground. I [...]