Is there anything worth watching in the year’s busiest frame?
The surprising reply is yes, I think there are actually three movies in wide release that I want to see that week. And, well, there’s additionally a movie about talking chihuahuas, but I guess you can’t win them all, right?For as lengthy as my three-day weekend lasts (which may not be much longer, t…
Can Martin Scorsese save Robert De Niro?
First thing first: Last night’s “Pushing Daisies,” after a rather disastrously lengthy bit of opening exposition to catch everyone up, was just as funny and whimsical as ever, and will hopefully lead ABC to announce later today that the show has received a full season-two order (so far it just has 1…
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…
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…
