Went out to see Oliver Stone’s newest last night. As usual with his movies, I don’t quite know how to describe it. But a few random thoughts:
This whole Bush saga is a lot easier to stomach now that I know we’re not going to have four more years of it;
There’s nothing at all surprising in [...]
Based on the book and directed by artist Julian Schnabel, it’s the true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, who suffered a catastrophic stroke in 1995 which left him totally paralyzed except for his left eye.
Over the next two years he dictated, blinking letter by letter, this memoir.
We caught this film on DVD the [...]
Something really funny happened when we were entering the movie theater last night, right where they take your ticket. I’d explain it to you, or I’d try to, but you really had to be there. But trust me we laughed all night about it.
And then, halfway through the closing credits of the movie (same [...]
The critics have been all over this movie for some reason. We laughed until we cried, so go figure.
Or, “The Lives Of Others.” This German movie of 2006 won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for that year, and without having seen the other candidates I feel I’m justified in guessing that it most likely was. My friend and I checked it out last week; she’d seen it before and recommended it, and [...]
A satirical just-this-close-to-our-own-universe guide to the movies that reveals them for what they almost were.
This is a great and underappreciated circus/carnival of a political film. If you’re the kind of person (like me) who enjoys the occasional movie that’s less about plot than about imagery and symbolism, this is for you.
Caught the new documentary about Hunter S. Thompson on Saturday night. It’s well worth a look if you need to catch up on one of the more influential journalists of the sixties and seventies, or if you want to get that frisson of fear and nostalgia that old tapes of Richard Nixon can bring on. [...]
So if you haven’t seen it yet you want to know: Is Heath Ledger really all that?
Iron Man has already left the theaters around here, so I checked out the remake of “The Incredible Hulk” this afternoon.
After the intense silliness of the Ang Lee version of a few years back, one can understand Marvel’s desire to try again and do it right. I mean really, that long episode of Hulk [...]
Another fun list, this one of movie-stealing cameos. Number one is, naturally, Alec Baldwin’s amazing introduction to “Glengarry Glen Ross.”
But what’s a list without a little quibbling? Nothing, that’s what it is. Especially around here. They somehow left out one that, at least in my mind, rivals the Great Mr. Baldwin. That would be [...]
The nice people at Entertainment Weekly have been good enough to entertain us with a set of “new classics” top 100 lists. These lists, thank goodness, recognize the inherent bias in the “of all time” lists I’m always griping about and make it clear that these are the top 100 of the last 25 years. [...]
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