Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
HOLLYWOOD - "You've caught me with my pants on," Hugh Hefner said with a sad smirk. There are days (or entire decades) when Hefner greets the midday sun in silk pajamas and a robe, but on this particular December afternoon, well, the playboy just wasn't in the mood.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
Though Blagojevich is regularly described as the apotheosis of the shady Illinois politician, he does not come close to the finesse and style embodied by masterful machine politicians. He's no McGinty.
VOT3R (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
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MeMo (Free subscription) | 01/02/2009
Question of the day: What Hollywood genius, back when all these projects were greenlighted, decided the 2008 end-of-year movies should be the saddest ever? I don't mean sad as in sorry -- really, the ones I've seen are quite good...
USA Today (Free subscription) | 12/31/2008
Home for the holiday and looking for something (outside of Times Square) to smooth your way into the new year? Here are 9 for ...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 12/29/2008
The director and columnist had concerns about the future and new media's arrival.
LA Times (Free subscription) | 12/25/2008
Screening Room: "His Girl Friday" and "Old Fashioned Way" are part of the Screwball Comedy Holidays series. Feeling the yuletide blues? The American Cinematheque's Screwball Comedy Holidays festival at the Aero Theatre is a guaranteed cure.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 12/21/2008
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Given the Baby Boomers' obsession with ephemera from their childhood, it's amazing that this is the first DVD release of one of the quintessential family sitcoms of the 1960s. It was also among the longest running, ending in 1972...
RssDaily (Free subscription) | 12/17/2008
In a season when funny and witty movies are at a premium, Bruce Goldstein, program director of Film Forum, has presented a tribute to Preston Sturges (1898-1959) with a nine-day festival of 10 comic masterpieces directed and/or written by Sturges, who was aptly evaluated by Times critic Dave Kehr as âHollywoodâs greatest writer and director of talking comedies. He created his cocktails with an...
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 12/16/2008
In a season when funny and witty movies are at a premium, Bruce Goldstein, program director of Film Forum, has presented a tribute to Preston Sturges (1898-1959) with a nine-day festival of 10 comic masterpieces directed and/or written by Sturges, who was aptly evaluated by Times critic Dave Kehr as “Hollywood’s greatest writer and director of talking comedies. He created his cocktails with an artist’s...
The Rage Diaries (Free subscription) | 12/15/2008
'Tis the season: Phil and I are loading up the TiFaux with holiday movies and unwinding after our hectic days by watching and heckling them, one by one. Last Thursday's showing was a particularly risible little film, A Christmas Wedding,...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 12/14/2008
Living up to its title, Bill Forsyth's "Comfort and Joy" was a welcome, gladdening new Christmas classic when it arrived in 1984. It appears to be aging gracefully a generation later, although Universal has been negligent about confirming this humorous-inspirational durability by adding a DVD edition to the American market.
BrowserMetrics (Free subscription) | 12/13/2008
Remember the Night stars Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray. It was released in 1940 a few years before the two stars made memorable cinematic pleasures with Double Indemnity. The movie was also written by Preston Sturges. If you will recall, Sturges directed and wrote The Lady Eve, one of the greatest screwball comedies, for Ms. Stanwyck. What is there not to like about watching this flick? I haven't...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 12/13/2008
Illinois is not the only state to have produced its share of political corruption scandals, writes
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 12/12/2008
I mentioned this on the Blah DVD post I made, but Ill repeat here that after sending another email to express my disbelief at the situation the director of Blah eventually responded by apologizing and...
