Features
Wednesday, January 12 2011
The Best Films of 2010
Among this year's winners include a fake documentary, a comedy about Jihad, a vampire story NOT dealing with tacky tween romance, a haunting hillbilly noir, and an elegant tale about clones. Not necessarily the usual cinematic suspects.
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.
Reviews
Friday, March 19 2010
Greenberg
The film's central romance looks like a perfect storm of codependency, dressed up as introspection and self-analysis.
Thursday, March 6 2008
Margot at the Wedding
Vivid impressions that make us look closely into Baumbach's fascinating, semi-miserable world.
Tuesday, November 27 2007
Margot at the Wedding
The brisk 92-minute film explores the intensity of the women’s relationship, and how they are inherently tied to one another, whether they like it or not.
Tuesday, November 20 2007
Margot at the Wedding
Margot at the Wedding doesn’t resolve as much as it devolves into a series of arguments and dire revelations.
Friday, August 25 2006
Kicking and Screaming (2006)
Behind all the banter and postgraduate trauma, Kicking and Screaming is a love story, only it's a fairly sour one that unfolds in reverse.
Blogs
Monday, August 16 2010
A Bunch of Blu 3
In this installment, we look at Clash of the Titans (2010), Spartacus, The Breakfast Club, Nanny McPhee, and Greenberg.
News
Wednesday, December 5 2007
Brothers and sisters bare their fangs on the big screen
It's that time of year when intimate strangers come over to eat large birds and drain your liquor cabinet. You know these people from childhood,…
Thursday, November 29 2007
A couple who collaborated on a 'Wedding'
Noah Baumbach and Jennifer Jason Leigh have been married for a little over two years. And they were an item for a while before that.…
Wednesday, November 21 2007
Nicole Kidman probed deep for 'Margot at the Wedding'
"I responded to the wicked comedy of it. And the way in which it sort of disturbs you, gets under your skin," says Nicole Kidman,…
