I recently watched Alex Gibney's Catching Hell, which was excellent. Linking together two unjust scapegoats -- Buckner and Steve Bartman -- it perhaps belabors the point about the fake "curses" that surround both organizations too much, but the point is a good one. The curses...
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This won't be surprising to longtime readers, but I agree with Dargis in almost every detail here. Plenty of great art has been made by extremely odious human beings and.
As a counterpart to her ongoing analysis of the proliferation of misogynist sex-is-icky comedy, Dana Stevens makes an important point about the contemporary romantic comedy as part of a review.
Somebody posted this list on Google+ the other day. Some thoughts... Of the 105 films, I've seen ten (Battlefield Earth, Raise the Titanic, The Postman, K-19, Red Planet, Soldier, Beloved, The Scarlet Letter, Death to Smoochy, and Event Horizon). I'd say that K-19 is actually...
I too am a Harry Potter virgin -- no books, no movies. I can't really imagine the books ever being a priority given the always-large stack of books that must.
I love this take on Kevin Smith: It would be hard to count the number of times Kevin Smith has justified his filmmaking by explaining in his Comic Book Guy.
There are many ways to respond to the fact that The Shawshank Redemption is ranked #1 on the IMDB Top Movies chart. This is one of my favorites, because it concentrates not on how deserving (not very) the ranking is, but rather on why such...
Randroids have certainly convinced movie audiences to go Galt. Obviously, people just can't appreciate genius.
Roy watched Atlas Shrugged so you don't have to. I just want to know when they're going to make a movie out of Ayn Rand's Marginalia, which I believe still.
How much would somebody have to pay you to watch Atlas Shrugged?
R.I.P. See Kenny, Zoller Seitz, Edroso, and this oldie-but-goodie from Dargis. Roy's post, with its account of Lumet's setting of Newman's summation in The Verdict, has many insights but I.
I thought that there was no way that Sucker Punch could be as bad as its fake-empowerment-sexist-tripe-for-drooling-morons trailer, if only on the grounds that unless it was directed by Uwe.