Features
Tuesday, January 10 2012
The Worst Films of 2011
Nothing is more punishing than a bad movie. With these ten, 2011's torture was truly painful.
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.
Columns
Tuesday, May 31 2011
Trouble in Wonderland, or The Crisis of the Fairytale in Film
Live-action fairytale adaptations are more popular than ever, with Red Riding Hood just out and four others -- including two Snow Whites in the works. But film and the source texts do not effortlessly go together, and children emerge as the losers.
Wednesday, January 7 2009
Twilight Takeover
The film is a successful adaptation of the book not only because Pattinson is so talented and dreamy, but also because Hardwicke knows a thing or two about filming adolescents.
Wednesday, June 13 2007
Z-Boys, Cool Losers
The underlying motivation to save Horizons West was about Sticking It to The Man. Us versus Them. Punk culture versus conformist culture. Poor against rich. All, interestingly enough, attitudes heavy in the subtext of the Z-Boys movies.
Reviews
Thursday, July 7 2011
'Red Riding Hood:' Overheated and Half-Baked
Red Riding Hood doesn’t have the teeth to bite into the thrumming subterranean eroticism lurking just beneath its overripe surface; but neither does it have the self-awareness (or self-confidence) to cross over the line into full blown kitsch.
Friday, March 11 2011
'Red Riding Hood': What Happened to the Rabbit?
As the supernatural story is focused through Valerie's romantic travails, Red Riding Hood is mostly a jumble of clichés.
Monday, March 23 2009
Twilight
While Meyers’ books tend toward formulaic characterizations, Hardwicke takes the material and successfully transforms it into a subtle, layered atmospheric film.
Friday, November 21 2008
Twilight
Fantasy rules in Twilight, fantasy simultaneously delicate and ravishing, chaste and utterly bloody.
Monday, April 9 2007
The Nativity Story (2006)
Unlike the story from which it derives, there is no "oomph". There is no sense of danger. There is no excitement.
Blogs
Friday, March 11 2011
What Every Female Adolescent Craves - Implied Wolf Sex: 'Red Riding Hood'
Like listening to an alcoholic deadbeat dad read a knock-off version of the famed fable to his inattentive, angry offspring, Red Riding Hood is no fun.
Thursday, November 20 2008
Vamp-Ire: 'Twilight' vs 'Let the Right One In'
Blame Anne Rice. Blame her for being the literary stake in the original vampire's heart. If it wasn't for her spinster prose take on the…
News
Wednesday, March 18 2009
‘Twilight' descends at midnight Friday night
After months of hype and screaming fangirls and barrels of newspaper ink dumped on Robert Pattinson and "Twilight," there was bound to be some backlash.…
