28 Silly Things About Interstellar
Oh my. I don’t always have beefs. I saw Big Hero 6 this weekend and was rendered nearly beefless. But the thing about beefs is once you have one good beef core, more beefs...
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Jack Reacher is Hilarious
Louis CK told me to be judicious with “hilarious,” but Jack Reacher was hilaaaaaarious. It was also ugly, with a prison rape joke in the first stanza of dialogue, but mostly it was hilarious....
23 Silly Things about The Dark Knight Rises
Alfred, that is a lot of silly things (Thanks is due to many co-hecklers in the production of this heckle.) Nolan’s Batman saga is like a coin. The first side features breathless cause-and-effect (Batman...
Splitting Hairs with Brave
I’d have to be a total jerk to criticize Brave. It’s fleet, entertaining, funny and charming. It’s eye-shatteringly beautiful, exquisitely animated and perfectly performed. Its heart is in the right place. The slapstick is...
Prometheus
Might solve a mystery… or rewrite history! What what. What what what. Prometheus is exquisitely made and beautifully acted. The art direction will melt your face. The cinematography will scorch your scalp. But the...
In Defense of Battleship
Battleship pleasantly surprised me. Successfully selling shlocky dialogue, SIR. It’s not that I have a soft spot for “E for effort” action movies. Of the Transformers movies (with Rifftrax; I found the first one...
Nolan’s Catwoman
This is the image they released for Anne Hathaway’s Catwoman in the upcoming Dark Knight Rises. It annoys me. It’s not that she is posing (she has settled into the classic contrapposto with spine...
Verizon’s Asian-American Dad Buys Yellow-Haired Doll
These stills are from a Verizon Wireless TV spot. I first noticed it last year around Father’s Day, and I spotted it last night on Hulu, which was handy for screen caps. In the...
