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Movie Review: The Men Who Stare at Goats - While We Yawn

I’m positive there is a good movie buried somewhere deep inside The Men Who Stare at Goats. Sadly though, I looked and I listened and, yes, I even stared, but I couldn’t find it anywhere. Lore is filled with stories of the military conducting crazy ...

From TODD FORD, Blogcritics.org,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,  The Pentagon

Movie Review: Where the Wild Things Are

was made with all crazy kinds of passion. Director Spike Jonze imbues every moment with a sense of vision, long gestating. It’s a movie with lovingly crafted images. Unfortunately though, passion is often woefully not enough. Movie history is filled ...

From TODD FORD, Blogcritics.org,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Spike Jonze,  Dave Eggers

Movie Review: Paranormal Activity

I’m going to say as little as possible about the new horror movie because spoilers would be, in this case, especially ruining. But I will say this: I was shaking as I left the theater. Not so much because I was scared, although I found the movie very ...

From TODD FORD, Blogcritics.org,  24 Oct 2009

Movie Review: Bright Star

To get closer to poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw), Frances ‘Fanny’ Brawne (Abbie Cornish) decides to brush up on her reading. She starts carrying an armful of books including Paradise Lost everywhere she goes. Suspicious, Keats’ roommate decides to toy ...

From TODD FORD, Blogcritics.org,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: John Keats,  Ben Whishaw,  Abbie Cornish,  Jane Campion

Movie Review: Capitalism: A Love Story

It sounds pretty crazy to make a movie for popular consumption on the subject of capitalism. It sounds pretty dull, but not in the hands of the always provocative Michael Moore. may just be his masterpiece. It’s masterful in the sense that it ...

From TODD FORD, Blogcritics.org,  14 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Michael Moore,  George W. Bush,  Rush Limbaugh

Movie Review: Whip It

Whip It is the most pleasant surprise I’ve had at the movies since Dirty Dancing – and that was a long time ago. Both are feel-good movies in the very best sense. A tad bit predictable, yes, but you still cheer for the characters regardless. They’re ...

From TODD FORD, Blogcritics.org,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Ellen Page,  Kristen Wiig,  Drew Barrymore,  Juliette Lewis,  Marcia Gay Harden

Movie Review: The Informant!

works. It is one of the best times I’ve had in a movie theater in ages. But maybe it shouldn’t have worked. It’s a movie chock full of nutty decisions on the part of director Steven Soderbergh (Ocean's 11). How can so many bits of mismatched craziness ...

From TODD FORD, Blogcritics.org,  21 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Steven Soderbergh,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Marvin Hamlisch,  Woody Allen,  Mark Whitacre

Movie Review: 9

9 is one of the most visually stunning movies I’ve ever seen. I couldn’t tear my eyes away from its depiction of a post-apocalyptic future without humans and only populated by the machines and little fabric dolls of man’s creation. The movie is part of ...

From TODD FORD, Blogcritics.org,  14 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Tim Burton,  Judy Garland,  Timur Bekmambetov

Movie Review: (500) Days of Summer

In a way, the tagline for says it all and says nothing at all: “Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love. Girl doesn’t.” Sure, it neatly captures the story of Tom Hansen (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Summer Finn (Zooey Deschanel) as they meet and date and part – ...

From TODD FORD, Blogcritics.org,  9 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Joseph Gordon-Levitt,  Zooey Deschanel,  Dave Eggers,  Anna Karina

Movie Review: Taking Woodstock

The terrific, entertaining, lovingly detailed, and a bit disappointingly underwritten movie owes a great deal to the monumental concert movie Woodstock , 3 Days of Peace & Music. It makes similar use of split screens to show us two, three, even four or ...

From TODD FORD, Blogcritics.org,  1 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Janis Joplin,  Jimi Hendrix,  Demetri Martin,  Mick Jagger,  Melvin Belli

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