Leatherheads: George, Let’s never talk about this again

I'm really hoping that this is comedy's year. The Oscars are slowly reflecting America's fatigue of big, sweeping epics in favor of more detailed and experimental character studies (a result of our w...

Run Fatboy Run: A pleasant jog down memory lane

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....

Funny Games: Worst Date Movie Ever

The funniest thing about Funny Games is how spitting mad it made Roger Ebert. Ebert is one of my favorite movie critics....

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day: The Art of Elegant Comedy

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...

Wake Me for the Summer Blockbusters

(from my article at RVANews!) It’s going to be a bleak time in movie theaters for a little while.* The Oscars are over, but the world’s not ready for this year’s roster of superhero sequels. The...

Be Kind Rewind: 2.5 Stars. Be Kind Rewind’s Version of Ghostbusters: 5 Stars.

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 ...

The Savages: There’s Gray on the Horizon

Tamara Jenkins, 2007 4 stars Greetings, good people! I have been enjoying three days of a work conference in yon Colonial Williamsburg! Everything is so pleasant here; there are guys in three-cornered...

Cloverfield: NYC Can’t Catch a Break

2.5 stars (from my review at RVAnews!) This is what happened. I saw Cloverfield on a Friday night, a fair amount of my friends saw it Saturday night, and our Monday morning nerded-out IM conversations...

There Will Be Blood: A Nice Clean Drama This Is Not

Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007 4.5 stars Paul Thomas Anderson, acclaimed director of quirky hits such as Magnolia, Boogie Nights, and Punch-Drunk Love, has finally struck oil instead of silver with There ...

Atonement: A First World Tragedy in Three Acts

Joe Wright, 20074.5 stars (from my review at RVAnews) I’m upset because it’s probably not feasible to watch Atonement every day. Seeing it in theaters, certainly, is impractical after three or fou...