It's easy (and fun!) to scoff away at films that recycle old devices and try to pass them off as new. Usually that sort of thing makes me furious...or at least annoyed and/or whiny....
Darlings. I write this to you from my silken boudoir, perched on a heap of dressing gowns, money, and servants. Yes, that is correct. I have abandoned my boring, polyester world for a life within a sc...
2.5 stars
According to me, Michele Gondry is very creative at putting together music videos, but he shouldn’t bother making full-length films. According to everyone else I know, he burst forth from ...
(from my review at RVAnews!)
5/5!
Remember when you went to see Napoleon Dynamite for the first time, and all your friends were like “Dude, you are going to lose it because it is all so hilarious,â€...
4/5
(From my review at RVAnews)
The Wendell Baker Story is a simple, heartfelt picture that slipped through the cracks after its initial limited release in 2005. Distributing it nationally in spring 2...
Wes Anderson, 2007
Dear Wes Anderson,
Hey buddy! It was good to see you again the other day! I was glad to see the color and substance return to your films -- that Life Aquatic period of yours made yo...
Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, 2007
3/10
I wasn’t completely against going to see The Nanny Diaries. In fact, I truly enjoyed the book of the same name. It’s chick lit, for sure, but it...
Greg Mottola, 2007
5/10
Maybe it’s the fact that I was never a teenage boy, or maybe it’s the fact that I was distracted by the giant diamond engagement ring on my finger, but I just couldn’t fu...
John Dahl, 2007
8 out of 10 stars
(from my review at Lost At Sea)I have a theory about mob movies and the way we perceive them in the 21st Century. I believe we have absorbed Tony Soprano as our “re...
Brad Bird, 2007
4 out of 5 stars
(from my review at Lost At Sea)
Remember when Pixar was so insecure about the way their newfangled technology represented humans that they only sporadically showed ...