The Visitor: Viva summer blockbusters!

I don't know about you, but I started the summer off with a bang. Typically skeptical of summer blockbusters, I was surprised to notice how many of them this year seemed to actually interest me....

Sex and the City: Yeah, I went there.

So the other night I put my brand new marriage* in jeopardy during what began as a pleasant post-honeymoon dinner with my sister and her husband....

Forgetting Sarah Marshall: Forget those flaws!

Sometimes it's tough to like Judd Apatow. I liked The 40 Year Old Virgin, loved Knocked Up, and tolerated Superbad -- it's not really the movies themselves that provoke these qualms. ...

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....

VCU French Film Festival 2008

(repost of my article at RVAnews!) The VCU French Film Festival! An annual three day event during which Richmonders stampede the Byrd Theatre like eager vessels for French directors to fill up with th...

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 ...