Archive for the ‘movies’ Category

Shitstorm of the Week, or, WTF, Hollywood?

The whole Roman Polanski bullshit is giving me a splitting headache, and it gets worse the more and more names of actors and writers and directors are added to the goddamned petition to leave poor Mr. Polanski alone. I mean, he totally couldn’t pick up his Oscar in person! Hasn’t he been punished enough?
What the [...]

Seriously, people don’t talk like this. Seriously.

So, I got Juno through Netflix this weekend and popped it in to watch this morning.  Five minutes in I was pretty sure I wasn’t going to make it all the way through it (for those playing at home, that would be the moment “Honest to Blog” was uttered on the screen).  20 minutes in, [...]

The Day The Earth Stood Still

I saw a trailer for this over the weekend while I was at Quantum of Solace, and it looks like it might be good, but honestly? I only had one real reaction.
Keanu Reeves, starring as the emotionless kind of stoned alien character has not been so perfectly cast since The Matrix.

I have no idea who Lloyd Kaufman is

But this is indisputably the most hilarious interview the AV Club has ever done.  Probably my favorite part is the quote about Oliver Stone:
 Oliver Stone would not be making movies if I didn’t make movies. My roommate and I at Yale made two feature-length movies with a Bolex—which is a wind-up camera, not a social [...]

Summer movies I actually want to see

I was reading The AV Club’s preview of the upcoming summer movies (and why they’ll kill the summer blockbuster model) here and also here, and it struck me that for the first time in several years there are actually several movies I want to see this summer.
I mean, just to start with, there’s Indiana Jones [...]

Hype Me

I am so sick of the Sex and the City movie, and it’s not even coming out until May.
To be honest, I was sick of it months ago, when they were still filming, because every single day it seemed like at least three separate blogs were carrying the same half dozen new pictures from the [...]