Like George Washington, I cannot tell a lie. I confess that movies about submarines are not my cup of brine. A new one called Phantom is no exception. Worse, it’s about a Russian submarine. To be honest, I can rarely recall any film, on any subject, that made less sense. I found so much of Read More
If you are too busy watching the Australian cycling thing and can’t understand what the hell is going on with Twitter (honestly, we don’t know who you follow, but no one on our feed actually bothers naming the winners of these things), here are the latest updates for the 2013 Golden Globe Awards. Read More
The story behind Touching Home is more inspiring than the film itself, but don’t let that deter you. It’s the kind of can-do miracle that reminds us all that anything can happen and everything is possible. Produced, written, directed by and starring Logan and Noah Miller, two good-looking identical twins whose father died on the Read More
MONDAY:Gossip Girl
OMFG! It really must be Fall, because our DVR runneth over with all the shows coming back this week (thank you, universe). Tonight, it’s the recession-proof Gossip Girl with season three. Most of the gang are in college now (though we can’t keep it straight how many of these guys have now “opted” Read More
Appaloosa
114 Minutes
WRITTEN BY Robert Knott and Ed Harris
DIRECTED BY Ed Harris
STARRING Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris, Renée Zellweger, Jeremy Irons, Timothy Spall
In most movie westerns, an appaloosa is a horse. But the title of his new revisionist oater, Ed Harris’ first outing in the director’s Read More
Animal lovers to the alert! Forget about the penguins: A whole new gang of four-legged love makers have arrived to establish squatters’ rights on your hearts. Eight Below, a surprise hit inspired by a true story with the kind of charm, action, adventure and humanity for which I was totally unprepared, is about eight of Read More
Dear Concerned Citizen:
As I write this, we face a grave and growing crisis in America. Not just war. Or terrorism. Or the ever-increasing proliferation of those twin weapons of mass destruction: nuclear bombs and S.U.V.’s. No. We face a danger far more threatening: The comedian Janeane Garofalo is not being taken seriously with Read More
Agnès Varda’s The
Gleaners and I belongs to that genre of nonfiction film in which the French
excel: the first-person philosophical essay. Ms. Varda has been a gleaner all
throughout her 46-year career in film, in the sense that she’s been collecting
or discovering (facts, information, etc.) gradually, bit by bit. What she
collects in Read More
Guns and Lovers
As movies about World War II find their way into the reference books, you couldn’t say the Battle for Stalingrad has exactly been over-reported. Germany never stops paying for its atrocities in the courts of international justice, but the civilized world has changed its alliances with Russia so many times that most Read More
No Use Crying Over Keanu
When Hollywood tires of making new bad movies, they just remake the old ones. Sweet November , a 1968 weepie with Sandy Dennis twitching all over the place and Anthony Newley as her miscast lover, is now disinterred with New Age commodities Charlize Theron and Keanu Reeves. Unlike old brandy, Read More
