Archive for September, 2008
Spin-ematical: New on DVD for 9/30
Filed under: DVD Reviews, New on DVD, Home EntertainmentIron ManAt the risk of drawing the ire of Batfans everywhere, I’ll just come out and say it: Iron Man is the best my favorite superhero movie of the year. (Dear Comic-Con: Please don’t revoke my press pass.) Dark Knight is indeed brilliant, and…
Trailer trifecta: A glance at three I’m really looking forward to
If you would have told me several years ago that David Fincher would direct a bona fide “Christmas movie,” I would have thought you were straight-up mad.And I had my initial doubts that he would be able to do much with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s odd tale “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” about a man…
R.I.P. Paul Newman
I had planned to talk about Spike Lee’s uneven but often wildly entertaining “Miracle at St. Anna” today, but I instead woke up to the rather depressing news that Paul Newman had died.He was 83 and had suffering from cancer for quite a while, and therefore hadn’t acted too often in recent years, mos…
World War II all around: Valkyrie, Miracle and Red Tails
I’ve been rather shocked at the mostly negative reviews that have piled up so far for Spike Lee’s “Miracle at St. Anna” (30 percent positive at Rotten Tomatoes, and even those were only really lukewarm.)The main complaint I’ve read is that Mr. Lee has just bitten off too much to deal with here and l…
Three cheers: “The Office” is, finally, open again!
The biggest “Office”-related news that AM is actually that Ricky Gervais is close to being tapped to be the host of the next Oscars telecast. Wow. That would have to be a step up from every possible host except perhaps Jon Stewart, and probably even from him. Bring it on.But, of course, enlarged bef…
Spin-ematical: New on DVD for 9/23
Filed under: New Releases, DVD Reviews, New on DVD, Home EntertainmentMAIN PICKS AND MISSESSex and the City (Pick)Leatherheads (Miss)Run Fat Boy Run (Miss)Deception (Miss)Pathology (Miss)INDIES ON DVDFoot Fist Way, Mother of TearsBLU-RAYSex and the City, Leatherheads, Deception, The Godfather, LA Co…
Free Michael Moore, Notorious B.I.G. and Madea? What a day
There’s just a lot of odd stuff out there today, so let’s start with the creme de la weird (with all apologies to Chuck Shepherd.)The movie version of Bret Easton Ellis’ “American Psycho,” starring Christian Bale, was a surprisingly good adaptation and a rather severely underrated little flick. Not …
