It’s 2 a.m. and you awake with a jerk, alone in your fully lit apartment and still on the couch. On TV, the credits of some movie you’ve already seen a billion times are scrolling by. It feels like rock bottom. And we know, because we’re just like you: single.
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We have to hand it to Christian Bale. For as long as we could remember, he was always a conundrum: a brilliant actor that seemed to actively sabotage his stardom by appearing in mostly limited-appeal dreck. Then, something fascinating happened: Caught up in the wave of counterintuitive superhero casting choices—you can thank Tobey Read More
Monday: Lost
It’s a tradition for Lost fans to re-watch the previous season before a new season airs. But it’s probably been a while since any of us have revisited the two-part pilot that sent us all down the rabbit hole of the Dharma Initiative, the black smoke monster, Ben Linus, Jack/Kate/Sawyer and everything else. Read More
Monday: The premise of Samantha Who — bad girl gets amnesia, forgets she’s bad, becomes good — might seem overly cute on first thought, but if you’re one for quirky stuff, this show is for you. And tonight, ABC is rebroadcasting the pilot, so you can get to know Samantha from the beginning. Christina Applegate Read More
In 1989, Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Festival gave us the premiere of a seductive low-budget psychodrama by an unknown director named Steven Soderbergh: sex, lies, and videotape. A film that defined the zeitgeist, it would later win the 26-year-old Louisiana native a Palme d’Or (putting him in the company of Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola Read More
David O. Russell’s I [Heart] Huckabees, from a screenplay by Mr. Russell and Jeff Baena, displayed more charm, guile and precision than I had anticipated after having been exposed to its laboriously antic coming attractions, and upon reading a dispiriting interview with its flaky and hyper-intuitively improvisational director. In fact, these preliminary portents were so Read More
You all know Columbia professor Robert Thurman as a Tibetan scholar and activist, friend of Richard Gere, father to Uma. But did you know that he was also a mentor of director David O. Russell ( Spanking the Monkey, Flirting With Disaster) and was the primary inspiration for Dustin Hoffman’s character in the audacious and Read More
Kevin Smith’s Dogma
did not incite any religious riots at the screening I attended. Perhaps I would
find it easier to review if there had been. As it is, I felt the audience
responded to the film’s well-meaning whimsicalities with a kindly indulgence I
was unable to grant. To believe or not to believe, that Read More
