Archive for June, 2008
New DVD Picks of the Week: ‘Charlie Bartlett’ and ‘Definitely, perhaps’
Filed under: Comedy, New Releases, DVD Reviews, New on DVD, Home EntertainmentCharlie BartlettIt was set to come out in August, a darkly comic, drug-filled teaser to the impending back-to-school September. thereupon the film got bumped to February, and slid in and out of theaters with barely a secon…
Robot dialogue coach?!?! How do I get that job?
In case anyone who’s never been here before doesn’t know it, I - like many folks in the world - am simply a sucker for Pixar movies, so be warned you’re gonna build out a whole lot about “Wall-E” here that week until and possibly after I get to see it, probably Saturday dawn.Sunday’s Arts & Leis…
DVD pick: “Be Kind Rewind” redux
Consider that an open letter of apology to Michel Gondry.I was more than a little bit psyched to see Mr. Gondry’s “Be Kind Rewind” when it hit the big screen a little while back. Jack Black, Mos Def and Michel Gondry? I was so jazzed to see it that I even drove an hour or so up the road to do so.And…
AFI’s top 10 genre flicks: Fantasy or folly?
There’s nothing better to spark a debate than a Top 10 list that purports to have some authority, as anything with the American Film Institute’s stamp of approval certainly would.The AFI has been making a habit of compiling such lists in recent years, but its most recent endeavour - the Top 10 movie…
New DVD Picks of the Week: ‘Be Kind Rewind’ & ‘Chaos Theory’
Filed under: Comedy, Drama, New Releases, DVD Reviews, New on DVD, Home EntertainmentBe Kind RewindWhen news first broke about the premise of that film, it seemed too good to be true — Michel Gondry was making a movie about guys who remake classic movies. However, they wouldn’t be just remakes; the…
Pixar’s new short? It will be “Amazing”
This week in our movie summer is so poor that I’m just gonna have to pretend it doesn’t even exist.”Get Smart” vs. “The Love Guru”? The only loser here appears to be the viewer. I can’t even look at Mike Meyers without wincing, and even with Steve Carell and the very funny Ken Davitian on board I ju…
Murderball
What could be better than a load of paraplegics ramming holy fuck out of each other in specially reinforced wheelchairs? Virtually nothing, that’s what!Murderball — or wheelchair rugby, to give it its more PC name — is just that. Oh yeah, and you have to get a ball from one end of the court to the…
