Thursday, January 15 2009
OMG - The 20 Worst Films of 2008
There's bad, and then there's 2008 level bad. You know this list is looking down into a deep dark bottomless pit of cinematic despair when Mike Myers' shameful Love Guru didn't even make the Top 20!
Friday, November 21 2008
Cut to the Whatever
Marc Forster's Quantum of Solace slices away nearly every element of the old Bond, and leaves nothing in its place.
Friday, November 14 2008
Quantum of Solace
Bond (Daniel Craig) seems done in by the notion that M is indeed his maternal superior, and so he must please her, or at least pretend that he's playing by rules that he and she and all the rest of us know he disrespects from jump.
Thursday, September 11 2008
Talk, Talk, Talk: November 2008
Like the sainted sigh of relief that comes after another shriek-filled All Hallow's Eve, November usually means the start of the 'nominate me' process for the proposed prestige pictures of 2008.
Friday, April 13 2007
Casino Royale (2006)
Casino Royale feels sleek, lean, shorn of fat, lithely running freely along that relentless but perilous path from point A to point B in classic parkourfashion.
Thursday, November 16 2006
Casino Royale (2006)
The new Bond understands loss, but focuses on revenge instead of grief. He's a hard body in a hard new world.
Tuesday, April 26 2005
Darkness: Unrated Version (2004)
Ooky ambiguity is one thing. Incoherence is another.
Sunday, April 24 2005
Shadows in the Sun (2005)
Claire Forlani goes so far as to call Shadows in the Sun her Il Postino. Oy.
Wednesday, September 15 2004
Man on Fire (2004)
Tony Scott enthuses, 'I had such a brilliant smorgasbord of really odd, strange personalities and different looks.'"
