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Quickie: Towelhead
Towelhead (2008)–** Quickie Review Jasira, a 13-year-old girl of Lebanese descent, must deal with racism and conflicting messages about sex in suburban Texas. American Beauty writer Alan Ball’s feature directorial debut begins as a piercing, uncomfortable social commentary but devolves into a Bizzaro World after school special. Rarely funny and too badly acted to be dramatic, this so-called [...]
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No Comments »Today’s Best News Ever: The Terminator preserved for all time
Every December, as the rest of the film community is busy compiling lists of the year’s best movies, the Library of Congress announces 25 films that will be preserved for future generations. So when the robots finally take over, they’ll be able to experience one of the classic sci-fi films that predicted their rise to [...]
Movie Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)–**** Zemeckis, an undisputed master of film technology, shows off an equal aptitude for vivid storytelling in bringing Winston Groom’s picaresque novel to screen. –Rita Kempley’s 1994 Washington Post review of Forrest Gump Seriously? I hated Forrest Gump. Hated, hated, hated Forrest Gump, as Roger Ebert would say. Every [...]
Today’s Best News Ever: Fox Looks to Delay ‘Watchmen’ Release
I may be the only person on the Internet calling this the best news ever, but damn it, I’d rather live in a world where a Watchmen movie was never been released, let alone made. The AP is reports today: An attorney for 20th Century Fox says the studio will continue to seek an order delaying the [...]
Movie Review: ‘Doubt’ & ‘Frost/Nixon’
Doubt — *** Frost/Nixon — ***1/2 The differences between Doubt, an adaptation of John Patrick Shanley’s stage play directed by the playwright, and Frost/Nixon, an adaptation of Peter Morgan’s play directed by Hollywood filmmaker Ron Howard, reveal two approaches to theatrical adaptations. Doubt looks like a stage production forced to be a movie, while Frost/Nixon [...]
Today’s Best News Ever: Tina Fey, Entertainer of the Year
Making up for EW’s mistake, the Associated Press has named Tiny Fey, star of 30 Rock and part-time Sarah Palin impersonator, their Entertainer of the Year. From the AP: “Tina Fey is such an obvious choice,” said Sharon Eberson, entertainment editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “She gave us funny when we really needed it and, [...]
Today’s Best News Ever: Bitches on Fox
Werewolves in Manolo Blahniks? Carrie finally, and quite literally, ripping Big’s heart out of his chest on a full moon? Oh yes. My favorite news item of the day comes by way of the Hollywood Reporter. Fox is developing a show about four female werewolves in the City titled Bitches. This has the potential to [...]
The Oscar Race – In any other year…
In any other year, we wouldn’t be talking about The Dark Knight, Milk, WALL-E, and Slumdog Millionaire as serious Best Picture contenders. In any other year, the Best Actress trophy wouldn’t be a race between a classic icon and an icon in waiting. In any other year, performers playing a professional wrestler and a gay [...]
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