Film & TV
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Ghost Town follows Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais), the quintessential snide, cynical jerk who, after a glitch during a routine colonoscopy, dies for seven minutes.
Guilty Pleasures
Sugar & Spice 2001 I have a confession. I often find myself sucked into ABC Family's weekend movie marathons while channel surfing, and this weekend was no different.
Dejá Vu Dejá Vu
Just in case someone forgot that he's a bad motherfucka, Samuel L. Jackson's New Years' resolution in 1998 was to "continue to kick ass." In the decade since, he's appeared in the quintessential badass role in basically every movie he could fit into: a fast-action FBI agent in Snakes on a Plane, a no-bullshit man of God in Black Snake Moan.
Storming the Desert
Consider the assaultive title just the tip of the big screwed-up iceberg that is Towelhead, Alan Ball's disturbing portrait of a 13-year-old Lebanese-American girl's coming-of-age in a Texas suburb during the Gulf War.
Guilty Pleasure
Don’t tell anyone, but National Treasure is one of my favorite movies. I conveniently “forget” to mention it when asked to list my all-time favorites, and no evidence of my love for the historical-fiction-film-slash-action-movie-slash-crime-caper can be found amongst my possessions.
Cannes you dig it?
Day 1 Feel like I am in an episode of Entourage. It was hard to appreciate the enormity of this festival last night, when I was wandering through the central Palais, my head fuzzy with jetlag.
Fall Movie Preview
With fall comes the start of classes, cooler temperatures and vicious competition at the box office for Academy Awards contention.
Guilty Pleasures
Don't tell anyone, but National Treasure is one of my favorite movies. I conveniently "forget" to mention it when asked to list my all-time favorites, and no evidence of my love for the historical-fiction-film-slash-action-movie-slash-crime-caper can be found amongst my possessions.
Cannes You Dig It?
Day 1 Feel like I am in an episode of Entourage. It was hard to appreciate the enormity of this festival last night, when I was wandering through the central Palais, my head fuzzy with jetlag.
Fall Movie Preview
With fall comes the start of classes, cooler temperatures and vicious competition at the box office for Academy Awards contention.
Krilladelphia: The City of Shrimply Film
Let's just say that M. Night Shyamalan is to Philadelphia what Martin Scorsese is to New York. work with me here.
Celebratory
As the spring term comes to a close, the books disappear and the party begins. In the real world, people celebrate with champagne.
Celebrity Crush
Dear James, I'll never forget the first time I saw you. You were walking on hind legs, striding across the screen as a Mr. Tumnus so good-looking, C.S.
Retake the Remake
A few months ago I took on the (ultimately unfortunate) assignment of reviewing Michael Haneke's own remake of his brilliant 1997 commentary, Funny Games.
Summer Movies
As usual, the summer is dumping ground for prick (Iron Man) and chick (Sex and the City) flicks alike.
Mister Lonely
5 Stars What if Abraham Lincoln, the Three Stooges, Michael Jackson and Sammy Davis Jr. lived together in a Scottish castle?
A Film to Visit
Were Stanley Kramer alive today, he would have loved Tom McCarthy's The Visitor. Indeed, it resembles many of the Big Issue films of the mid-twentieth century.
Editor's Picks
New Releases: Young @ Heart: Centegenarians croon without (apparent) fear of keeling over. John McCain, take note.
Movie Magic
Captain Disillusion stares at the camera and utters, "Love with your heart, use your head for everything else." This post-enlightenment superhero, whose face is partially coated in metallic silver paint, is at once seriously goofy and playfully skeptical.
