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On paper, this reads like a movie I’d absolutely love: Keira Knightley and James McAvoy in an epic WWII-era romance directed by Joe Wright, who brought the oft-filmed old chestnut Pride & Prejudice to the screen in an exciting and refreshing new way. Sign me up! Unfortunately, while it...
No Country for Old Men – This perfectly-made Coen Brothers film astonished me with its dusty, Texan look, its wry and sad tone, its shocking violence, and its unresolved ending. If this wins Best Picture, it will be the first time in years (if not ever) that I completely...
How did they screw up this movie? You’ve got hot stars (Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, fresh from his star-making turn as James Bond), you’ve got a creative and respected European director (Oliver Hirschbiegel, who made the Oscar-winning Downfall), and a tried-and-true plot that has already spawned two classic...
Juno is just the type of hipster, slangy comedy that will be a huge cult hit and inevitably get a backlash as it gets more and more adored (see Napoleon Dynamite). These kinds of films come along so rarely, that I’m happy to wholeheartedly embrace it, even though I’m...
I have to admit, The Golden Compass left me a bit confused. It was in no small part due to the fact that I kept referring to it as The Golden Notebook, a completely different book by Doris Lessing, whom I shouldn’t even mention, because she and her book...
The Coen Brothers take a novel approach to No Country for Old Men. And I mean that literally—this film is the most novel-like movie I’ve seen in ages, and, well, author Cormac McCarthy (whose book the film was based on) certainly must be relieved with the result. As soon...
Saturday Night Fever has one of the most iconic title sequences in movie history. It is a pop-culture snapshot of the disco-era 1970s: As soon as the opening funky bass of the Bee Gees’ monster hit “Stayin’ Alive” starts, the camera shows John Travolta’s feet walking on the sidewalk,...
Psst. Come on. You can admit it… after all, it was ten years ago. No matter how much you trash-talk the movie today, I’ll bet you saw it in the theater. Everyone did, and not just teenage girls. And I’ll bet you might have even choked up a little...
The reason I wanted to see The House Without A Christmas Tree would best be expressed in three little words: Mary. Katherine. Gallagher. Remember the Molly Shannon character on SNL who’d stick her fingers in her armpits when she’d get nervous? Well, there was this Christmas skit where Mary...
I chose to check out a couple of the selections—songs that at least supposedly changed the world in my conscious memory: Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” and Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. I started with the Madonna DVD. Billy Steinberg, co-writer of “Like a Virgin” (who also wrote Cyndi Lauper’s...
Anyone who came of age in the early-80s probably still feels an uncontrollable shudder of delight when they hear the all-too-familiar “wakka-wakka-wakka” sound of classic Pac-Man chomping his way through a maze. You may remember the days of having a pocket full of quarters (or at least wishing you...
How could you not be caught up in the frenzy of Harry Potter-mania in this last week? Now, I, for one, have only read the first book, but I have seen all the movies. Hey, now… don’t think that I didn’t hear you scoff! OK, so I did roll...
