The Crossed Pond (Free subscription) | yesterday
The last part of the Roger Ebert review of “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” …sitting through this experience is like driving a tractor in low gear though a sullen sea of Brylcreem He didn’t like the movie very much, which suggests to me that he has seen it.
Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Kind Hearts and Coronets is a 1949 Ealing Studios black comedy starring Alec Guinness as each one of the family members who must be bumped off before our protagonist can inherit the Dukedom. I bought it for The Husband as part of this set . It's on Time's list of 100 best films. It's 6th on the BFI list of top 100 British films. trailer: Roger Ebert has it on his list of great movies. FilmReference.com...
Writelife (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Having lost his mind and making himself what I imagine to be the recipient of gazillions of limericks, Roger Ebert is running a little limerick contest. Below are five of my lame efforts, only some of which I submitted. Please note: limericks are almost by definition ribald, so if you have a polite sensibility — you have [...]
Triablogue (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
I finally got around to seeing the 2009 reboot of the superannuated Star Trek series. Star Trek movies are notoriously hit and miss. How does this installment (hereafter ST09) stack up? We need to judge a film, in part, by what it tries to accomplish. ST09 is largely successful on its own level. It’s been criticized for superficiality. For example, Roger Ebert says, “The Gene Roddenberry...
Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
I picked up the Criterion edition of The Royal Tenenbaums for The Husband because I had heard it was a good comedy but didn't give it to him because, as I read a bit about it, it just didn't seem to be his "type" of comedy -too much tragedy in the midst of it all, maybe. I ended up putting it in the stack with all the other to-be-watched DVDs, and the Younger Son picked it tonight. We liked...
Snarky Gossip (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Sooo….who went and saw New Moon last night? I’m waiting until it shows up on DVD, yes, I’m cheap. New Moon opened up to extremely lackluster reviews; here are just a few: Early reviews at Rotten Tomatoes gave it a sad little 4.9 out of 10. Ouch. Roger Ebert says “Since they know it all and we know all, sitting through this experience is like driving a pickup in low gear though...
High-Def Digest: All Hig (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Not to sound like a Scrooge, but to paraphrase Roger Ebert, I hated, hated, hated 'Four Christmases.' I really mean that. This movie is atrocious. Warner Bros., having not learned from the painful commercial...
Premium Hollywood (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
I feel I owe a lot to Roger Ebert, not only as a role model, but lately as a great guy to steal videos from. Yes, this is the second time I have plundered from this post. What can I say about the dean of American movie critics, the man’s got good taste.
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
"It's been a decade since Ben (Mark Duplass) and Andrew (Joshua Leonard) were college bad boys. Ben is living contently with a good job and a great wife, until his old buddy Andrew shows up on his doorstep late one night. Andrew, who lives as a vagabond artist, invites Ben out to a wild party. Excessive drinking combined with the irrational need to one-up each other leads to a mutual dare that...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
One of the pleasures of going to film festivals are the Q&A sessions afterwards. If you read humour pieces regarding this aspect of the festival experience, they are often snarky little pieces about the awful questions fielded by audience members, or folks trying to pass the director along a screenplay or simply blubbering "I love all your movies" in the starstruck awe. Yes, those things...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
When Summit Entertainment surpisingly canned Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke from New Moon in favor of Chris Weitz , who just so happens to be a penis-having dude, many predicted that the franchise would take a disappointing turn. Aside from the fact that the second entry in the four-part Twilight franchise features very little of Edward Cullen, that sparkle-chested hunk of lustful vampire meat,...
/Film (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Just got a random e-mail from someone informing me that I'm quoted in one of the recent television commercials for Ninja Assassin. It goes by pretty quick, but they quoted me as calling the film "Badass." It's actually kind of interesting how the whole publicity process works, so I thought I'd take a minute to give you a quick look at how a movie critic's quote ends up on a piece of advertising....
ComicMix (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
What a difference a year makes. In 1976, MGM released a film based on William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson’s 1967 novel Logan’s Run . Generally lambasted by the press, it may have been a nadir in science fiction films putting studios off the genre until the following May, when 20th Century Fox looked forward with Star Wars . Warner Home Video has just released Logan’s Run...
The Exploding Kinetoscope (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Preamble The end of a decade comes but once every ten years! Arbitrary and traditional as Top Ten lists are, the division of history’s ebb and flow into ten-year cycles is even more pervasive and less meaningful. What we collectively imagine as The Sixties or The Eighties are no such thing. History does not wait for round numbers. Nonetheless, here we are. 2000 through 2009. Historians form a...
in the open space: God & culture (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
There are days when I’m really glad I don’t make my living as movie critic—unless of course, I could be Roger Ebert. Yesterday I saw Roland Emmerich’s ultimate disaster movie 2012 and, quite frankly, it was some of the most fun I’ve had at the movies this year. There were whole chunks of time where I literally forgot I was watching a movie—and that itself is worth...
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wei12 | 11/07/2009
"I was a fan of both his work and a fan of him as a person. The world has lost not only a quintessential filmmaker whose influence will be felt for generations, but a great and decent man." – actor MACAULAY CULKIN • "John was an amazing mentor to me during the time we were shooting Curly Sue . He had a childlike spirit that connected us instantly and always made me feel loved. He will be missed but...
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