Archive for October, 2008
Kevin Smith, the art of raunch, and the problem with PG-13
The saddest news out there today is that after abusing Mike Judge’s wryly funny “King of the Hill” for 13 years now, Fox has finally pulled the plug, effective at the end of that season. After the way it’s been treated with the often nonexistent post-pro football slot, you could really probably sign…
Spin-ematical: New on DVD for 10/28
Filed under: New Releases, DVD Reviews, New on DVD, Home EntertainmentKit Kittredge — An American GirlIt’s the feature film for all the little girls out there who have American Girl dolls, and those who have enlarged since grown up. Abigail Breslin stars as a young, budding reporter who tries to he…
Don Draper’s guide to picking up women
I could use a half million-dollar bender right about now.Not much to say that Monday dawn except that the “Mad Men” finale lived up to and surpassed all my expectations. Seeing Pete finally get his proper reward was easily the TV highlight of the year, and the closing shot of Don and Bertie was just…
To 3D or not to 3D?
For most of the world, the movie question for that weekend was probably about whether to watch the pretty teens of “High School Musical 3″ or the bloodfest of “Saw V” (or perhaps in a truly twisted double feature, both), but for me it was whether or not to finally to take the plunge into 3D for a re…
“30 Rock” nearly a week early? I’ll take that!
I confess that I was very slow to get on the “30 Rock” train, but now that I’ve given in I have no notion why I had any reservations in the first place.The show will probably never be as funny as it was in the pilot episode when Tina Fey is wooing Tracy Morgan to join “The Girlie Show,” but despite …
A free flick from Wayne Wang? Enjoy it while you can
Until that dawn, I knew nothing at all about the movie “Twilight” except that it’s about young pretty vampires and is intended for many humans in the world who aren’t me. But now I know that it stars in some capacity Broadway vet Anna Kendrick, who utterly charmed her way through one of my favorite …
Come and See
A few months ago, I went through a few days of watching war movies. It wasn’t intentional as such, but the cards just happened to fall that way. One of those films was the 1985 Russian WWII film Come and See (Idi i Smotri).I’d seen a clip of that movie in a documentary about war films some months e…
