For all that it is a supremely disposable bit of stoner anti-comedy, Strange Wilderness – the newest film from Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions – manages to make cinematic history, in a very limited sort of way: it is to my best knowledge the first film ever to feature both Ernest Borgnine and Joe Don […]
Seriously. I mean, it’s not like anybody is going to mistake The Ten for Kieślowski’s similarly-themed miniseries, but the parallels are more than skin deep: both treat upon the ten commandments in ten short stories that don’t really illustrate their nominal subject all that much, each set of ten takes place in an interconnected universe […]
If I am not honest in my opinions, then I am of no use to anyone. This means that sometimes I am obliged to say things that are embarrassing to admit, and tonight I am going to say one of those things: I thought that Blades of Glory, starring Will Ferrell and Jon Heder, was […]
Between my job, which has gone from soul-crushing to soul-crushingly busy, and this well-advised “watch a movie every day all summer” plan, I’ve basically lost the ability to think. Which goes a long way to explaining why I’m not talking about anything in the real world: talking about movies is really more of a reflex […]
Yesterday, probably because of the shift in the weather, I had a fairly harsh headache all day. By the time I left work at 4:45, I’d already taken six aspirins since waking up, and they just really weren’t helping much. I arrived at the theater at 5:02 for a 5:10 movie. The only ticket-seller on […]
I’m having a hard time deciding if Clerks II is Kevin Smith’s career-best film. Here’s the thing: more than any other writer/director I can name, Smith’s films are all about the screenplay. On some level I salute this tendency, as it is a refreshing corrective to the legions of indie filmmakers who think that overbaked […]
Do you like Jack Black? A lot? Then you’ll probably like Nacho Libre. For myself, I like Jack Black, and I enjoyed the film as a divertimento, but not really much else. It’s a summer comedy, which means that you’ve more or less forgotten it by the time you leave the theater, sooner if like […]
