Wednesday, January 9 2008
Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Female
From the most sweetly nuanced performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh's career to Cate Blanchett's revelatory portrayal of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, the women of 2007 were stellar.
Thursday, October 25 2007
Bug
Bug does what it sets out to do, which is to burrow under your skin and fester there, goading you to dig it out with something sharp.
Friday, May 25 2007
Bug (2006) (2006)
What goes on in Aggie's head is the point of departure for Bug, which is not, as early trailers suggested, anything like a conventional horror film.
Tuesday, May 1 2007
Monkey Business (Part 1: May)
Talk about frontloading your approach. Each week in this first full month of patented popcorn movies finds another famous franchise icon making a major blockbuster bow. Only truly disastrous results from these guaranteed crowd-pleasers will keep the coffers from clogging with cash.
Friday, April 8 2005
Dinosaur Jr.: Bug
How something so dissonant and detached can still remain so ebulliently catchy reveals itself to be Bug's greatest strength.
Tuesday, October 5 2004
Bug (1975)
When the insects kill his wife, James follows the fate of most B-movie scientists and goes bonkers.


































