I finally caught Red Tails this week on HBO. I don’t wish to damn it with faint praise, but the George Lucas-financed Anthony Hemingway-directed story about the first all-black squadron of fighter pilots in WW2 was not as bad as you might expect it to be from the trailers or from Lucas’s involvement. Certainly,...
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Dear Readers, top five cinematic crimes perpetrated by Tim Burton in the 2000s? Go. Subquestion: is it in fact unfair to criticize a formerly great artist for his latter day sins? Is it better to burn out than to fade away? What to do about Tim Burton, what to do? Dark Shadows. Man. Watching this...
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Just makin’ another short film. This time, it is an animated felt effort, To Die by Your Side, done with the help of co-director Simon Cahn and fashion designer Olympia Le-Tan. It tells the story of what the illustrated book covers are up to once the book shop closes for the night. (You can...
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As films the likes of Bucky Larsson and I Don’t Know How She Does It starting to hit the theaters we know that, even though it might still be hot outside, summer is officially over. Yes. It’s almost Oscar season. The glorious four months of the year where good films open up every single weekend....
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I went on a little nostalgia trip this week, as IFC was playing House Party, the Kid N’ Play epic about… well, you know… a house party. Aside from the side characters (especially the neighbor yelling out the window played by John Witherspoon), the funniest thing about the movie is how hilariously bad the...
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So this weekend, we got a bit of a break in the summer action avalanche as the two big releases were the lukewarmly reviewed comedies, The Zookeeper and Horrible Bosses. I didn’t see either (maybe Horrible Bosses on video, but no desire whatsoever to see The Zookeeper), but did get around to seeing Larry Crowne, the affable...
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Hope everyone is having a good fourth of July weekend and that you haven’t blown off any of your appendages while celebrating. Transformers 3 is making a shitload of money despite seemingly no one thinking it was good, but that’s just how Michael Bay movies work. I’m gonna go with a short preamble today...
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Another week, another comic book movie. This time it was Green Lantern’s turn, and things did not go as for old GL as they did for Thor, which is probably why you don’t want to put all of your summer dollar eggs into one basket, which you then give to Ryan Reynolds for safe...
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