Monthly Archives: December 2012

Discuss This: Comments(2) | Add to del.icio.us | Digg it A comedy about working class stiffs who stick it to the Wall Street type who stole their savings? Talk about ripped from today’s headlines. Talk about being in sync with … Continue reading →

  It’s about what you’d expect from a Harold & Kumar movie, this “Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas.” There’s a baby blitzed on cocaine, Neil Patrick Harris “pretending” to be gay, every manner of bodily fluid, naked nuns, Claymation,  … Continue reading →

  The call comes out of the blue, by pay phone, the prodigal younger sister calling her estranged older sibling. “Where are you? Where have you been?” “Upstate, I think,” is all the confused young woman can manage. Or is … Continue reading →

  Clint Eastwood’s “J. Edgar” is a lumbering miscalculation, a slow and clumsy re-think of the late F.B.I. founder J. Edgar Hoover’s life and career that views him through the lens of his alleged homosexuality. While the screenwriter of “Milk” … Continue reading →

As political satires go, “Butter” is about as subtle as a slab of lard served on a slice of ham. Big, broad, but only fitfully funny, it takes a swipe at Iowa and Iowans. A few sucker punches land, thanks … Continue reading →

“Nobody Walks” is an intriguing but thin romantic drama about one young artist who strolls into Los Angeles and, like a stray electron, tears atoms loose and threatens relationships all around her. The winsome Olivia Thirlby stars as Martine, a … Continue reading →

  With Tyler Perry movies, I’ve found it best to just search for a way to go with it and see where he tries to take you. His homilies, homespun wisdom and relationship/life advice have a touch of Oprah about … Continue reading →

What makes a film a classic? What causes a movie, in an age when nobody watches old movies, to grow in esteem, to become timeless, to burn itself into world culture as a legendary work of art? Sometimes, it’s an … Continue reading →

To the uninitiated, the British TV comedy “The In Betweeners” is but a “horny teenager” movie writ large, peppered with the foulest British slang, a short series stuffed with jaw-dropping vulgarity and craven crassness. Every boys-on-the-make cliche under the sun … Continue reading →

Celeste of “Celeste & Jesse Forever” is a professional trend-watcher, someone who can size up people, ideas and “brands” based on demographic data and simple observation. One trend she might pick up on is the one “Forever” represents. In a … Continue reading →