Here’s a tip: Instead of watching The Girl on the Train, go watch a better movie. Go watch a Brian de Palma movie. Go watch an Alfred Hitchcock movie. I would say “go watch Gone Girl,” but that’s too obvious, so how about don’t do that? It’s not that The Girl on the Train is bad; it’s that … Continue reading
The big question hanging over The Huntsman: Winter’s War is broadly simple: “Who the hell is this ding dang movie for, anyway?” The only entity who theoretically should know, Universal Pictures, doesn’t, at least as evidenced by the way they chosen to package and sell the movie to whoever they’re hoping to sell it to: If … Continue reading
Today, I finally get around to publishing a belated link-post for everything Looper-related that I’ve disseminated across the Internet– from my full review, in which I award the film a perfect score, to the essay I published just yesterday. Continue reading
There’s a near-fatal overload of ideas bouncing around in the hulking frame of Nick Stoller’s The Five-Year Engagement, his follow-up to 2010’s Get Him to the Greek. Primarily a comedy, the film examines not simply marriage—as the title dictates—but the reversing and alteration of gender roles in modern relationships, which I admit sounds high-minded … Continue reading
When Jason Segel capitalized on the critical and financial success of his breakout hit Forgetting Sarah Marshall three years ago by securing the green-light to write his own Muppets film, my world stopped turning for a day. Muppets? In the 2010s? And envisioned by a man who not only represents a perfect human foil to everyone’s … Continue reading
Nothing can bring down a good film like a weak, flimsy ending. If anything can make a person question their enjoyment of the two hours or so of movie they’ve watched up to the finale, it’s a bad denouement. Not even a bad one, even, just one that doesn’t do the rest of the story– … Continue reading
A Constant Visual Feast 