Blogs about: 2008 Movies
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The Fifth Annual Andy Movie Awards - Part One
It’s time once again for one of my signature posts: the fifth (and probably final) Andy Movie Awards, where I select not only who I think should win the awards being handed out this Sunday, but … more →
Critically Speaking
Cassavetes, Dick, Donaldson, Frankel, Mottola
wrote 2 weeks ago: Adventureland (Greg Mottola, 2009). Clearly Greg Mottola decided the Superbad path was the one to fo … more →
Cassavetes, Gilroy, Jarrold, Martin, Park
wrote 3 weeks ago: Duplicity (Tony Gilroy, 2009). Gilroy’s follow-up to Michael Clayton is a smart, witty film th … more →
Howard and Williams, Kazan, Mamet, Penn, Weber
wrote 1 month ago: The Missouri Breaks (Arthur Penn, 1976). The film has Marlon Brando at the very beginning of his any … more →
Apted, Ashby, Cammisa, Green, Soderbergh
wrote 2 months ago: Snow Angels (David Gordon Green, 2008). A grim, atmospheric drama about people living small, desolat … more →
Tell No One (French) (2008)
wrote 2 months ago: Over the past decade the French have proven themselves to be better makers of thrillers. American t … more →
Theatre goddess, film destroyer, New York girls are sure to enjoy her
wrote 3 months ago: The Women (Diane English, 2008). This remake of the 1939 George Cukor-directed comedy had been in de … more →
Changeling
wrote 3 months ago: Clint Eastwood and Angelina Jolie took it on the chin from certain corners for last year’s hig … more →
A new-wave Hollywood where everybody's good but not great
wrote 4 months ago: Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, 1957). You probably don’t need me to tell you this is masterf … more →
It's just another movie, another song and dance
wrote 4 months ago: Swing Vote (Joshua Michael Stern, 2008). Stern builds his soft political satire around the notion of … more →
She walks to work but she's still in a daze, she's Rita Hayworth or Doris Day
wrote 4 months ago: Wanted (Timur Bekmambetov, 2008). Colossally stupid. Based on a six-issue comic book series written … more →
She's making movies on location, she don't know what it means
wrote 5 months ago: Kung Fu Panda (Mark Osborne and John Stevenson, 2008). in the realm of computer animated features, t … more →
Pivotal Film Selling Out Your Monkey
wrote 5 months ago: Taxi to the Dark Side (Alex Gibney, 2007). This Oscar winner for Best Documentary Feature catalogs a … more →
And our silver screen affair, it weighs less to me than air
wrote 5 months ago: McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971). There are many who consider this film to be the quinte … more →
Would you believe it's a happening?
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wrote 6 months ago: Bad Movie Nights have gotten harder to do. There are two elements to this observation. For one, when … more →
Oh the movie never ends, it goes on and on and on and on
wrote 6 months ago: Trouble the Water (Carl Deal and Tia Lessin, 2008). It would be easy to make a documentary about the … more →
"My Winnipeg" ****
wrote 6 months ago: One of the more refreshing films of late is Guy Maddin’s “My Winnipeg.” Billed by the filmmaker as a … more →
B movie, that's all you are to me
wrote 7 months ago: Get Smart (Peter Segal, 2008). So mechanical that it quickly becomes depressing. This launch of a ne … more →
Wasting time, dropping lines like "I could get you into movies"
wrote 7 months ago: Atlantic City (Louis Malle, 1980). Malle’s film is about the ways in the which the glimmers of … more →
Mamma Mia! -- A Review
wrote 7 months ago: Sorry I didn’t post yesterday–I was not expecting “Mamma Mia!” to be that lo … more →
