This film is a perfect example of why the MPAA ban on screeners,ostensibly to combat piracy (and who exactly is black marketing The Station Agent?), is damaging to the little movie. Playing a week long run in a dinky art house to an audience of 5, this little movie is a blistering indictment of […]

Don’t be hatin’. I don’t blame you for not wanting to see this movie - I nearly didn’t - but a desperation for some escapist farce, an over-exposure to the current new releases, and a limited selection at the local drive-in (hey, $6!) is all that got me into the theatre. And I […]

Argh! Chris Rock is so funny! Why did he have to do this? I know why, but still. If you saw Rock’s brief segment in Bowling for Columbine, if not his regular stand-up, you know he’s an affable, positive man who calls the injustices against the people as he sees them. […]

Opening disclaimer: I am acquainted with and/or good friends with most of the major creators on this film. I state that at the outset so you tabloid vultures don’t come out with some article in Variety and some kind of nepotism kind of accusation. That said, I screened this with multiple friends […]

I was surprised at how pleased I was with this film. I had heard bad things about it, and I tend to eschew Al Pacino films as a rule. I am glad I bothered. If you really sit back and let it happen, and watch for all the details, there are some […]

Steven Soderbergh, newly minted Oscar winner, is trying to stretch his auteur muscles with his newfound artistic freedom. But wait - he always had artistic freedom, ever since sex, lies, and videotape, Soderbergh has done what he wanted and the audiences lapped it up. What is different? Now he can *really* do […]

Did anyone see this besides me? I have been mystified by the apparent disinterest to what I could not wait to see. But I crave the dark stuff sometimes…Death to Smoochy is an amusing and dark take on children’s shows and charities. It’s not the world’s cleverest joke to take something pure […]

In my excessively biased opinion, there are two generations for which the teen movie genre means something: Gen X and Gen Y. I myself am classic Gen X, and went with a friend 4 years my junior who, culturally, had a similar experience, but hasn’t seen many of the recent (read: starring Freddie Prinz […]

It should be said that I enjoyed the campy, trashy, gross-out fun of the first Scary Movie, a parody of all the late teen slasher flicks. It should also be said that Scary Movie 2 attempts to include the old as well as the new in its target of parody. Most of all, […]

This is exactly the kind of intellectual in-joke movie that a few people will adore with all their hearts, and a zillion people will go, “ehhh.” It’s a script by David Mamet, starring (among others) Philip Seymour Hoffman and William H. Macy, which should be a no-brainer as far as deciding whether or not […]