Archive for the 'Movie News' Category
Can TV’s “Daisies” bloom again after such a distant layoff?
Is is just me, or does the new TV season just kind of suck? I mean, I guess we knew it would be pretty poor with last year’s strike, but so far I’ve only found one show that has me hooked, and that one not entirely.I’m still sticking with “Fringe” simply considering I’m a sucker for the supernatural…
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…
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 …
The fine art of the psycholigical thriller
First off, a hearty congratulations to “Mad Men” in snagging the Emmy for Best Dramatic Series, but how in the world Jon Hamm didn’t win for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series is simply a mystery and more than a small crime. Here today, however, it’s all about my favorite flicks in easily one of my fav…
