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Sports films might be the most formulaic genre there is, and they end one of two ways: the big win or the close loss that teaches the value of trying, good sportsmanship, teamwork, etc. That’s it – unless you count Alive as a sports film, in which case it… Continue reading
Somewhere in an immaculate kitchen in an immaculate house situated in an immaculate neighborhood somewhere in Bel Air, Nora Ephron is toasting her troubles away*, wondering how in the hell a common vulgarian like Judd Apatow could reinvent the romantic comedy… Continue reading
Mr. Brooks is a trainwreck, but not in the ‘I cannot turn away as this fast-moving train slams into another fast-moving train’ way. It’s more like ‘I have come upon the bloody, fiery wreckage of a wrecked train, and I can just make out some of the mechanical… Continue reading
Bug is an extremely unpleasant movie. Not necessarily gross, although there’s some stuff in there that made me wince. What makes Bug so unpleasant is the grimy immediacy of its environments, the inexorable downward trajectory of its story and the shocking… Continue reading
I’ve had it with anime. I’ve had it with sitting through modestly well-animated movies that make no sense, that feature juvenile stories and characters and that I’m supposed to judge on a different level than I would judge any other film from any nation. It… Continue reading
Angel-A is one of the most gorgeous movies I have ever despised. Luc Besson’s black and white photography makes love to Paris, highlighting not just the beautiful architecture and geography of the city, but also the very soul of it. Angel-A does for Paris… Continue reading
The very concept of a film trilogy engenders certain expectations. When a studio stretches a tale over six hours or more, we hope for a certain fluidity from one chapter to the next, for plotting, action and character arcs that are consistent both within each… Continue reading
Towards the end of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Captain Barbossa cackles something to the effect of ‘I know the real secret to immortality, me mateys!’ (or something similarly salty dog). Could the secret be ‘Get involved in a seemingly endless… Continue reading
I am annoyed by the condescending attitude most of the good reviews of Night Watch had. The writers were not, I felt, judging the film on its own terms but in light of it being made in backwards Russia. The whole thing had a quality of cheering loudly for the… Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!LABEL: Time LifeMSRP: $18.98TRACKS: 20 Who'd have thought that "geek musical" would become a subgenre on Broadway? The unusual success of Spamalot caused, if nothing else, a mayfly Internet meme about unlikely properties being… Continue reading
The trouble with the Shrek movies is that their admirable message of self-acceptance is drowned in a deluge of pointed pop culture references that's essentially the result of one rich white guy (former Disney CEO Michael Eisner) snubbing another rich white… Continue reading
Once is the kind of movie that ruins it for other movies. Once isn’t just a nearly perfect little film, it’s effortlessly so, and you walk out wondering why more movies can’t just be this good. Glen Hansard, who sings for the Irish band The Frames in real… Continue reading
