Warning: This isn’t so much a review of The Descendants as a discussion of why it didn’t quite “do it” for me. So I’m assuming that anyone who reads this has already seen the film. In other...
It’s almost impossible to do this, but when I assemble a Top 10 list, I like to imagine myself a decade from now, reflecting back on the year that was. Which 2011 films will really stick out...
The cast of New Year’s Eve positively baffles—and not just because of the sheer enormity of it.
Sure, we expect to see the likes of Ashton Kutcher, Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel, and even Sarah...
Unlike my pal, the comedian Larry Noto (the foremost Muppetologist on the East Coast), I was never a big Muppets girl. I mean, in the show’s heyday (the late 70s), it was completely...
If you are a fan of HBO’s True Blood, with all its sex and blood and gothic kink, you realize just how, er, bloodless the Twilight series is. Of course, that makes sense—Twilight is a series...
It’s impossible to watch Like Crazy and not think about the nature of young love—or perhaps the nature of your own first love. It captures those very specific sensations—the thrill of your...
After seeing In Time, I mentioned to a friend that it played like a less complex, more rudimentary version of 1997’s great Nietzschean sci-fi film Gattaca. Well, imdb.com to the rescue! Turns out, In...
I cringed every time I passed a poster for the Footloose remake. The whole endeavor seemed so unnecessary and even slightly embarrassing for those involved. After all, when a film hits upon...
I realize that Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network, Moneyball) can’t write all the films, but I couldn’t help but think that The Ides of March would’ve greatly benefited from one of his...
I had to drag myself to see 50/50. I mean, did I really want to see a movie where Joseph Gordon Levitt battles cancer? Especially when the film was (dubiously) dubbed a comedy?
Man, am I...
