Archive for the 'Movies' Category
Posted by kittson on 31 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Movies, Review, Friday Night In
If Blades of Glory is sold out at all your local theaters this weekend, why not get your Will Ferrell fix by spending Friday Saturday night in with Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, the hilarious story of the rise and fall and inevitable comeback of the world’s greatest (fictional) Nascar driver Ricky Bobby […]
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Posted by kittson on 16 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Movies, Review, Friday Night In
If I were to list the events depicted in Walk the Line – music tours, infidelity, drug abuse, prison (hey, I did list them) – it may sound a lot like an episode of VH1’s Behind the Music. However, this film about the life of the late Johnny Cash (based on his own autobiographies) is […]
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Posted by kittson on 09 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Movies, Review, Friday Night In, YouTubery
If you skipped Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, you probably contributed to the split between Dreamworks and Aardman Animation. Now you feel guilty enough to watch it, don’t you? Well, don’t watch it out of guilt. Watch it, because it’s an incredibly smart, creative, and funny film.
Using stop motion clay […]
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Posted by kittson on 05 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Movies, Review
No, Bridge to Terabithia is not a fantasy film about a secret world. Firmly rooted in the harsh reality of middle school, it’s perhaps the most complex and careful film depiction of the brief stage in life when one finds himself balanced precariously between childhood and adolescence. Based on the Newbery Medal Award winning novel […]
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Posted by kittson on 02 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Movies, Review, Friday Night In
Imagine removing Jack Nicholson’s character Jake from Chinatown and replacing him with the Dude from The Big Lebowski. Then throw in some Quentin Tarantino violence and banter, and the product might look a lot like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
Robert Downey Jr. (who seemingly can do no wrong onscreen) stars as Harry Lockhart, a burglar […]
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Posted by kittson on 22 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Movies, Review, Friday Night In
Have you ever referred to yourself as a metrosexual? Do you spend as much time perfecting your hair as your girlfriend does? Then Hitch just may be the movie for you. It’s a Bridget Jones’s Diary or My Best Friend’s Wedding for men, in which the guys are insecure and the women are gorgeous and […]
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Posted by kittson on 16 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Movies, Review, Friday Night In
One can’t help wondering why Garrison Keillor, whose weekly radio show A Prairie Home Companion is still going strong after 30 years, would write and star in a movie about this same show’s final night on the air.
Directed by the late Robert Altman, in his signature style, where characters talk naturally over each other, and […]
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Posted by tim on 14 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Movies, Review
Sienna Miller may not make the best decisions when it comes men (see Jude Law), but she sure knows how to pick a role. As Warhol muse/superstar Edie Sedgwick in Factory Girl, Miller offers up a triumphant display of talent. It’s too bad she’s stuck in a film with so many problems.
With Guy Pearce as […]
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Posted by kittson on 08 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Movies, Review, Friday Night In
Before funny Will Truman and Grace Adler, and before adorable Jen Lindley and Jack McPhee, there were bittersweet Nina Borowski and George Hanson of The Object of My Affection.
Written by the late playwright Wendy Wasserstein (The Heidi Chronicles) from a novel by Stephen McCauley, and directed by Nicholas Hytner (The Madness of King George, The […]
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Posted by tim on 07 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Movies, Review
Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett’s current offering, Notes on a Scandal, is designed to entice and titillate audiences with its provocative teacher-student courtship and depiction of unrequited lesbian love. Well, it sold me.
Blanchett plays the stunning and coy Sheba Hart, an art teacher with a telling naiveté and a bit more money than she’d care […]
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