It’s been a good year for Beatles fans. Beatlemania of a sort struck again on September 9, when the band’s entire catalogue was digitally remastered, making it arguably the most important date for rock music in 2009. The icing on the cake came in the ...
I’m among the whitest people you’ll ever meet. Therefore I felt a little like Professor Berry in the Chris Rock-starring documentary Good Hair. When he learns that many black women routinely apply sodium hydroxide to their hair in order to “relax” and ...
According to Wikipedia, this is at least the twentieth film based on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (and that’s not including its lengthy list of television adaptations). An IMDb search for “A Christmas Carol” comes back with 38 results. So I think ...
If I could choose two words to describe , those two words would be "relentlessly depressing." Spike Jonze's vision is uncompromised, and he has created a serious movie for children, which is great. But what he hasn't done is made a movie as magical, ...
Writer-director Lynn Shelton's Humpday takes the buddy comedy to its oft-implied, always unspoken, blindingly logical conclusion: the two buddies must have sex. I try to shy away from using the term "bromance," but the fact that all of these movies ...
"This is a story of boy meets girl. But you should know upfront: This is not a love story." So begins , the most honest and inventive romantic comedy since Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and almost certainly the best. The boy in question is Tom ...
There's no denying it. When slick vampire Eric (Alexander Skarsgård) defied gravity and flew up, up, and away just like Superman in this season's penultimate episode "Frenzy"... well, I'd put that right up there with Fonzie strapping on his water skis, ...
Lost, five mind-bending seasons in and one left to go, is one of the most complex storytelling achievements television has yet seen. So immersive is it in scope, and so layered in symbolism, that books on its creation almost seem like a requirement. It' ...
in the house. Purdy, the fifteen year old originator of screen destruction, destroyed a screen on the porch within the first couple of days. Max followed suit on the bedroom window screen. Ink, my black female cat, has not yet picked up on this trick, ...
The Seth Rogen in Observe and Report is not the Seth Rogen we have come to know and love. Gone is the adorably scruffy slacker of Knocked Up or Zack and Miri Make a Porno, with his endearing, stuttering laugh. In his place is Ronnie Barnhardt, a meaty ...
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