Wreck It Ralph
Bombed because it’s a kids movie full of references only people 30 or older can get.
Awesome tho.
Hanna rocked!
Is there a Fuck Yeah Hanna Heller?
There should be.
Prolost - Your New TV Ruins Movies
This is important, and competently written, because it offers not only a rant but a clear cut, easy, real world solution to the problem.
35mm (by Pascal Monaco)
35 movies in 1 minute. can you get them all?
As anyone who has ever read anything I’ve ever produced knows, my career writing about sports was a total accident. I went into writing because I wanted to be a film critic, because I wanted to be Roger Ebert. I stumbled into the sports thing, and Deadspin, because I like sports and sports are endlessly fun to write about. But it wasn’t the initial plan. If you’ve seen my lengthy, wordy and pretentious movie reviews on this site, you know writing about movies has always been my true love.
So, now that word is starting to leak out, I should fess up: I’m going to be writing about movies full-time, daily. Yahoo — I never know whether or not to include the exclamation point; someday I hope to found a company with interjectory punctuation — has hired me to run a movie blog for them. What Yahoo has been doing with their sports blogs and their news blog The Upshot has been exciting for me, as a reader, to watch happen. I’ll be working with Jamie Mottram — his career and my career have been circling each other for years — the estimable (and fellow June 5 bride) Courtney Reimer and the great Mark Lisanti, who honestly might be my favorite blogger of all time. To be able to be a part of that, writing about my favorite topic, was a no-brainer.
Particularly because the blog is going to have a very Mattoon feel: My co-editor on the site is going to be Tim Grierson, the vice president of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and my closest friend since we were in the eighth grade. This has been a lifelong dream for the both of us. Plus, he’s light years better than I am at writing about movies, so I’m just going to try to keep up with him.
I am not leaving New York magazine, by the way: I’ll be doing this while still covering sports for them. (It is, after all, my favorite magazine.) I look forward to New York having better film coverage than Yahoo and Yahoo having better sports coverage than New York. It’s not every day you get to take down two media organizations at once.
The site, as it’ll look when we’re fully operational, hasn’t launched yet. We’re still working out the kinks and figuring out how not to make every post about Woody Allen. (Though a couple reviews have sneaked their way onto Yahoo’s site.) When it launches, I promise to let the four-or-five people who can’t wait to find out — all named “Leitch” — know all about it. I can’t wait. It’s very exciting.
leitch + mottram + lisanti + reimer = the only movie reviews website you’ll ever need. get hype. and everybody else please stop writing bullshit, because shit just got real.
Longing for the Lines That Had Us at Hello
[The reason for the lack of memorable recent movie lines] may be that a Web-driven culture of irony latches onto the movie lines for something other than brilliance, or is downright allergic to the kind of polish that was once applied to the best bits of dialogue. Thus one of the most frequently repeated lines of the last year came from CLASH OF THE TITANS, which scored an unimpressive 28 percent positive rating among critics on the Rottentomatoes.com Web site after it was released by in April.
“Release the Kraken!” thundered as Zeus — spawning good-natured mockery on obscene T-shirts and in Kraken-captioned photos of angry kitty cats.
I’m in yer moovay, releasin’ yer Kraken.
Carlos
Directed by Olivier Assayas
2010This movie finally gets the trailer and 70s style Serpico knockoff poster it deserves. It screens October 15th in NYC and the 22nd at the Egyptian Theatre in LA. Yes it’s really over 5 hours long and has an intermission (Lawrence of Arabia style) and is really that good. Definitely recommend seeing this if it’s playing in your town.
To clarify a point about the movie somewhere
I wrote i think i did not understand it rather than i hate it and it’s crap certainly not out of respect for Sofia Coppola, whom, i must say, i am certainly not very high on. Possibly out of respect of Tarantino, i’ll give you that much, after all he (and the rest of the jury) gave it the golden lion in venice, and i thought maybe he (and all those others) had seen something i really did not.
And maybe there really is something there and it’s just me hating because the main character is so difficult to identify and empathize with, being essentially a rich privileged bastard living the carefree life of a rockstar. There’s probably somebody out there that totally understands it though, gets it, responds to this, granted it may be just a very limited set of people, who totally know what it means you can’t fuck around anymore with strippers and models in your swanky hotel suite because your fragile ex wife just saddled you with your own daughter for the eternity of two weeks. It’s a tragedy man. But at the same time whoa, you know, it totally opens your eyes on life and shit, duuude, know what i mean?
I’m being sarcastic now, but seriously, Somewhere is like the reverse Precious.
This picture has 22 movies from the 80s as little icons and logos, can you guess them all? I think i still miss some.
John Boorman’s The Matrix.
Bruce Lee would have so owned that role.
The Bechdel Test and a very long list of movies that don’t pass it.
Are there two or more women in the movie?
Do they have names?
Do they talk to each other? About something other than a man?
NO…OH SHOCKING!
The Next Ten TV Actors Who Should Become Movie Stars
isn’t Nathan Fillion already a movie star? Doesn’t really count if it is only on the internet? I guess
The 50 Coolest Movie Cars
Trueno ftw!
