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Last week, I went and watched the new version of the movie “Get Smart”. I had fond memories of the show when I was a child and it was on Nick and Night, but since nostalgia has burned me before (think the latest Indian Jones movie, Star Wars, Catwoman, oh, damn, lots of them) […]

I’ve never seen Sex in the City. I’ve heard it’s good, but not brainwashing, sex-zombie-creating good.
I guess something in the ending credits reminds you not to talk about that bit. And it almost worked.
You can only watch Samantha Jones bed so many gorgeous guys before wondering if 4-inch heels and sky-high confidence would […]

Right on the heels of Marc incisively questioning the distance between progressive rhetoric and action. I bring you… movies! yaay!
I saw Prince Caspian a couple of days ago. It wasn’t terrible, it wasn’t great. Mostly, it failed to make an impression on me at all beyond wondering who these people are, and why there is […]

Just saw Speed Racer. It was as colorful as I could have imagined. The end race sequence was exciting enough to get me to forget I spent the first 3/5 of the movie bored out of my skull. The casting was excellent (thanks for not using Keanu as Speed Racer. I […]

Me! (Sorry, the pull of alliteration was too powerful to resist.)
No, seriously. I am feeling alone, humorless and strident. Often the fate of the feminist yeti, that oft-sighted, hairy-legged, man-hating creature of legend (tragic sigh).
I have now read lots and lots of reviews of Iron Man, and many of them […]

…and I have two reviews for you.
Um…why would one person have two reviews…well, as it turned out, I had divided neatly in two by the middle of the movie–I metamorphosized from Lisa the singular healthily integrated human being into two Lisas. Specifically, Lisa the techno-geek engineer science fiction fanatic and Lisa the […]

I’ve read the article twice now and it appears to be a mishmash of confusion and bitter longing for he knows not what, except that it has something to do with erect penises. Help me out here..!
The sorry state of masculinity in American movies
Don’t feel like you gotta be subtle, man, just tell us […]

It’s white rich asshole movie day on the cable TV, today, apparently. While I was plugging away on some projects at home, both The Squid and the Whale and Friends With Money were on. I hate The Squid and the Whale; it’s conceited and hollow, though Laura Linney and Jeff Daniels watchable. […]

Tom Hanks. Julia Roberts. I figure those two would do just about any film as long as it paid well enough and gave them the contractual minimum of 3 Oscar moments*.
Aaron Sorkin. Mike Nichols. Them? Not so much. …Okay, maybe Nichols at this point, what with his […]

For reasons which now escape me, I looked at an advertisement for “Fred Claus” in my alt-weekly paper, and in the corner I saw a little dove. Why, I thought, is my soap company stamping approval on crappy movies made by Jen Aniston’s rebound?
Turns out the Dove Foundation has little to do with soap; […]

So I finally got around to seeing This Film is Not Yet Rated and while it is full of very disturbing information, I was pleasantly surprised and relieved to find out that Stone and Parker were well aware of how excruciatingly bad that uncut puppet sex scene was. I always heard that they’d made […]

An international cartel of Paramount global marketing executives and focus groups decided to give a rather malicious “fuck you!” to remaining WWII veterans by giving G.I. Joe a P.C. makeover for his new movie, something previously unheard of in the whole honorable history of the iconic “action figure”*.
At least, that’s the lens that Devil’s Advocate […]