“What’s your racket, pal?” she said. “I’m a Bible salesman.” he replied with a rakish smirk. “You gonna sweep me off my feet and make […]
Keep Your Change, You Filthy Animal
Something ‘Sinister’ this way comes
Ellison (Ethan Hawke) is a “true crime” author. He details the events of famous unsolved cases or cases with distorted conclusions in hopes that he […]
What we talk about when we talk about tragedy [‘Flight’ Review]
Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Forrest Gump) spent much of the last decade of his career foraying into and evolving […]
The Resurrection: ‘Frankenweenie’ raises Tim Burton’s work from the dead
The latest animated feature from director Tim Burton (A Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, Dark Shadows) isn’t another lazy Johnny Depp vehicle. It also isn’t […]
Once Upon a Time in South Central
End of Watch opens with a bald-faced encomium to the LAPD with Officer Brian Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) delivering a terse description of his duties as an […]
Rebirth of Slick: Richard Gere plays it cool in ‘Arbitrage’
Movies about powerful men behaving badly when trapped like rats have become something of their own genre in Hollywood. Notable examples include George Clooney’s brazen […]
Swimming Upstream: Fighting for Clicks in a Post-DVD World
http://www.slashfilm.com/streaming-bits-troma-entertainment-amazon-instant-netflix-hulu-apple-tv-bbc-iplayer/ http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-fi-0903-ct-netflix-taggers-20120903,1665375,4619027,full.story Not a day goes by that I don’t at least open up Netflix if only for the comfort of seeing my personalized queue […]
The Best Movie of the Year is also the Worst Flop in History
Full disclosure: The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure is currently the biggest flop in movie-making history, besting even the legendary bombs Gigli, Heaven’s Gate and the […]
The President Will Now Take Your Questions
If anyone has ever complained that politicians are too inaccessible for the laymen whose voices go unheard, hold thy tongues. Though not the first prominent […]
‘Vertigo’ takes throne in Top Ten Movies of All Time poll
I’m not the judge of that distinction, but Sight and Sound magazine, the paper supplement of the British Film Institute, has published just such a […]
Blowing smoke, doing little else in “High School”
“It’s times like these that you need to start thinking like a stoner,” proclaims our chubby underdog Travis Breaux (Sean Marquette). What Breaux didn’t realize […]
The ‘Battleship’ Potential
One morning, a Hasbro executive (probably) arrived at his office, opened up his email and was taken aback by a report of the $2.7 […]