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Roundtable Report: My first!
It’ll never be like this again so don’t worry! I finally went to my first “press junket” for Run, Fat Boy, Run Read more
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Snow Angels
I can’t honestly tell you not to go see this film, it’s one of those films that you really, really, really want to be outstanding. Adapted as well as directed by David Gordon Green from Stuart O’Nan’s novel of the same name, Snow Angels has a top drawer cast in a dark Read more
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The Boarding Gate
From the moment Sandra (Asia Argento) slinks, literally, into Miles’ (Michael Madsen) overly bright, glassed office somewhere in or near the not Eiffel Tower Paris we know he and perhaps we are in deep trouble. In this role, and others, Ms. Argento plays the kind of Read more
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Paranoid Park
I've always been a Gus Van Zant fan, I mean To Die For, Drugstore Cowboy, the sadly prophetic My Own Private Idaho. After all isn't it Gus we have to thank for the ascent of Ben and Matt in Good Will Hunting. Then there's that unfortunate Hitchcock "remake" and well...uh, never mind. It's 2008 and he's back in Portland and has directed a moody adaptation of a young adult novel by Blake Nelson. Read more
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The Hammer
So I had to quiz my husband about Adam Carolla because I missed the whole Man Show thing. I think it was sometime after AbFab became the last female-oriented show to leave Comedy Central...that is before the happily heralded return of Sarah Silverman. Read more
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The Signal
So it's New Year's Eve in Terminus and everyone's going crazy because their televisions have "disrupted the synaptic neural networks" as Clark (Scott Poythress), the designated tech geek explaner reminds us repeatedly. Just before the nightmare is unleashed, Maya (Anessa Ramsey) and Ben (Justin Welborn), the ostensible heroes, whisper sweet nothings to each other while designating her husband Lewis (AJ Bowen)as the villain of the piece. From then on we follow their meandering journey back toeach other. Read more |
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Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts
Wow...after suffering through that last...ahem...film, it was nothing but a pleasure to sit down and see what the members of the Academy nominated in the short feature category. Read more |
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Pride
An uplifting movie with good performances that periodically drowns in clichés. Underdog sports stories have not been hard to come by since Stallone’s plea for “Adrian!” filled theaters over 30 years ago. Almost every sport has been exploited up on the big screen and the “winners to losers” formula has only been slightly modified.
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For Your Consideration
Normally the biggest factors drawing a person to a film are star or story- the promise of a Richard Gere or a high speed car chase, but there are a select few movies that can draw people in based on the merits of the director. When you go to a Christopher Guest film, you know what youre going to get.
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Samoan Wedding
Samoan Wedding is a feel good comedy about four thirty something men finally coming of age. Like other classic Dont wanna grow up style movies, Samoan Wedding deals with the trappings of adulthood and how ultimately we must accept responsibility in order to develop as people. The Duck Rockers are a gang stuck in the old days of carelessness and freedom.
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The Hitcher
A taught little remake that pretty much blows it for anyone trying to thumb a ride, anywhere. The 1986 version of The Hitcher played on the wariness associated with picking up hitchhikers. While that version was a surreal story full of nightmare logic and camp acting, the 2007 remake offers a nice little counterpoint, anchored in a world of frightening realism.
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