I’ve heard and seen some reactions to this movie that I disagree with strongly! It’s a good movie! Continue reading
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“The 20 Best Performances Of 2020”
Turns out that a bunch of actors did a lot of good acting in 2020, imagine that. Continue reading
“The Male Daze: ‘Jennifer’s Body’ At 10”
The story of how a movie released 10 years ago gave a bunch of dudes with keyboards a free opportunity to tell on themselves. Also, it’s a real swell movie. Continue reading
Review: Ted 2, 2015, dir. Seth MacFarlane
“Asking whether we really needed a sequel to 2012’s Ted is almost unfair to Ted 2. Sequels, follow-ups, and part twos (and threes and fours) make up an ever-increasing percentage of our moviegoing diet these days. Questioning their necessity has nearly become reflexive. Treat it like a Mad Lib if you like. (Did we really … Continue reading
‘While We’re Young’: Noah Baumbach Q&A
“If While We’re Young leaves you itching to know whether the footage Adam Driver’s character shoots via a conspicuous GoPro camera will ever make it on the Blu-Ray as a special feature, prepare for disappointment: it’ll never see the light of day. “Part of the problem is that if we showed anything in Jamie’s movie … Continue reading
Review: In Time, 2011, dir. Andrew Niccol
I’d like to make it clear that I very desperately wanted to love Andrew Niccol’s In Time, a science fiction yarn which occurs in a future where time is currency and stars Justin Timberlake, but during a preview screening I recently attended I could not for the life of me get past the notion that … Continue reading
2011 Rising: My Films to Watch (pt.2)
Part 2 of my 2011 preview commences…now! (Part 1 can be perused here, at your leisure.) X-Men: First Class— By happy coincidence, the first trailer for Matthew Vaughn’s period prequel to the X-Men franchise hit just last week, and guess what? It looks really good. Focusing specifically on the relationship between Erik Lehnsherr, the man … Continue reading
Late Night Double Feature: Jennifer’s Body/Drag Me to Hell
But don’t worry– I’m not in the back row at the picture show, because you know what they say about the back ro Two horror films, two degrees of director skill. Two beautiful leading ladies, both tormented or prodded by demons. Sounds like a natural pairing for a late-night back-to-back horror bash. Let’s get this … Continue reading
A Constant Visual Feast 