POSTED // Apr 23,2008 - Baby Mama? Really? That’s where we’re going with this? We’re turning supposedly grown women into juvenile idiots like we’ve been doing with supposedly grown men of late? Look: Babies are great. Sex is great. Messy and ridiculous...

POSTED // Apr 23,2008 - I just came back from Paris—10 days and 20 hours ago, or so, as I write this. I could count the minutes, but that would be pathetic. It was my first trip there, and it was indescribably wonderful. As someone who lives in New York City—and...

POSTED // Mar 12,2008 - Oh, sure, it’s always better to see a movie on the big screen, right? I mean, that’s what we cinephiles always say, isn’t it? But, you know, it ain’t necessarily so. Not always. I’m not just talking about the fact that your...

POSTED // Mar 5,2008 - I wouldn’t want to live in the world of The Bank Job, in which absolutely everyone is corrupt except for the bad guys. Wait: I guess we already do. Sure, of course we do, because this is based on a true story, and what’s most interesting about...

POSTED // Jan 23,2008 - The original working title of Untraceable was Streaming Evil—which has precisely the right amount of built-in schlock for the tedious bit of horror exploitation this is. You can imagine something titled Streaming Evil starring Sarah Michelle Gellar,...

POSTED // Jan 16,2008 - There’s a reason why it seems like we are seeing the same movies over and over again: We are. This is why when a movie like There Will Be Blood comes along, it is so deep-down thrilling in a way that’s both visceral and intellectual. It feels...

POSTED // Nov 28,2007 - I’m outraged, I tell ya, at how Joel and Ethan Coen have tried to fool us into thinking that Scottish actress Kelly Macdonald is actually from west Texas in No Country for Old Men. Proud Americans should boycott this movie! Spread the word to each...

POSTED // Nov 14,2007 - Ever notice that big numeral 1 on the back of your DVDs? That’s its region coding: North America is Region 1 as far as the DVD mafia is concerned. Any DVD you buy in the United States or Canada is coded for Region 1, and any player you buy here...

POSTED // Oct 10,2007 - The conventional wisdom among American conservatives is that Hollywood is liberal and godless—but just try finding a movie coming out of the studios that features a real, out-of-the-closet, honest-to- … well, honest-to-God, atheist. You might...

POSTED // Oct 3,2007 - The Jane Austen-ification of chick culture is something of a conundrum for a thinking gal such as myself. On the one hand, Austen was all about independence, backbone and not settling romantically. On the other hand, her popularity these...