2 days ago
February 6, 2010
What if famous filmmakers directed the Super Bowl?
via Ray Pride’s Movie City Indie
They’re all pretty good except the Tarantino one, probably because it doesn’t seem all that much different from the real thing.
3 days ago
February 5, 2010
The Hurt Locker, is in many ways inaccurate. And the inaccuracies have alienated most service members from enjoying this movie. However, it is better then a lot of the recent war movies that have been released. Do I even have to mention Stop-Loss? Awful. James played a Hollywood soldier that was fearless, reckless, and is now the face of the 21st century G.I. Joe. And who doesn’t love G.I. Joe, right?
3 days ago
February 4, 2010
Why 'Avatar' is actually the 26th biggest movie -- The Live Feed | THR
Some perspective. Notice the old Disney hits.
1 week ago
January 28, 2010
The Kids Are All Right stars Julianne Moore and Annette Bening as a lesbian couple whose children search for their birth father. The sperm donor is Mark Ruffalo, an organic farmer, who ends up having an affair with one of the lesbians. And it’s a comedy. I know. But after Laurel Canyon — and the review below — I trust Cholodenko not to simplify complex middle-aged women’s lives, or to play their sexuality for cheap laughs.
1 week ago
January 28, 2010
Tarantino’s films aren’t even sadistic. Sadists take human suffering seriously; that’s why they enjoy it.
2 weeks ago
January 25, 2010
It figures that the Russian supergenius whose innovations in The Battleship Potemkin (1925) and Oktober (1927) still dictate how movies are shot and edited today would have no trouble creating private visual diversions for himself in an age before internet porn: He drew sketches of gay sex.
2 weeks ago
January 25, 2010
Catherine has a hidden side, like a Hitchcock actor, like Cary Grant,” Mr. Téchiné said. “We never know what she’s thinking. That’s the mystery of her greatness, and her eroticism. Catherine stands on the edge, is tempted by the void, looks down, but holds herself back from falling in the black pit.
3 weeks ago
January 17, 2010
If little Juno were planning a welfare scam to fund her alt-rock band or simply wanted to gross out the neighbors, these narratives would still function, but now with the added aspect of free will.
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