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 [...]
Some day I will stop getting excited about movies. I will learn my lesson and go into even the most highly touted and slickly marketed film skeptical and broken. Unfortunately this has not happened yet and in I went to see A Single Man expecting Tom Ford to translate his piercing stare and effortless style [...]
Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) travels a lot. He flies all over the country telling people that they’ve been fired but it’s going to be OK. He rarely sees his sisters and has no wife, children, girlfriend or dog. He is happy that way. UNTIL ONE DAY HE IS NOT.
The movie opens with a series of [...]
When I was in high school I remember trying to go see Amores Perros (written by Guillermo Arriaga) at the cheap theatre near my school with two of my girl friends. But after the very opening scene that involved bleeding dogs, we had to leave and we ended up seeing Blow instead. It’s not a [...]
Less Than Zero and Rules of Attraction
I’ m going to do my very best to keep these two movies from running together in my head because despite their differences they are both about (1)Rich attractive kids (2) who like sex (3) and drugs (4) and do both a lot.
In Less Than Zero, a young and [...]
A while back I wrote a serious review of Last Chance Harvey that may as well have been “Last Chance Gillian” because I sent it to this website (which will remain nameless) for a chance to write movie reviews for them, but I never got to. There was no money in it, so I’m only [...]
Raise your hand if you kind of have a big ol’ crush on Sam Rockwell! Me! Me! I do! Looking back over his filmography it was probably the underrated Matchstick Men where I first really saw him and it was definitely last year’s Choke that sent me over the edge to full-fleged crush status. He was even [...]
If you’ve been to the movies in the past year, I can almost guarantee that you saw this trailer at least once. I happened to see it about 12 times (I wish I were exaggerating) and it got to the point where if I heard Jamie Foxx say “I’ve had a few setbacks” and cue [...]
I liked Jesse Eisenberg when I first saw him in Roger Dodger all those years ago — his pent up sexual energy oozing out among cougar sexpots Jennifer Beals and Elizabeth Berkeley. I loved him in The Squid and the Whale – his arrogance hiding his pain and confusion, and still more pent up sexual energy. [...]
This is a long delayed posting of a much underseen film that did not get the recognition I believe it deserved during awards season. As a matter of fact, looking back over its awards history, I am really saddened that writer /director Courtney Hunt went unrecognized in all of the big competitions. But I am getting ahead of [...]