The Iron Lady

There is a scene towards the beginning of this misconceived borefest that encapsulates the monster of acting that is Meryl Streep. There is no other reason to watch this muddled film. Streep is a freak. We all know she can do voices and mimic accents like an android, but in this scene, as Margaret…

Live Kvetching the GG’s: The Ordeal.

Fantastic opening by Gervais, making fun of the GG’s. And Eddie Murphy.
List of Rules: Do not mention Jodie Foster’s Beaver. 
Star of Coriolanus, Gerard Butler? What about my BF Voldemort?
Best Supporting actor for Film Drama:
Kenneth Branagh, Albert Brooks. Jonah…

Oscars: The Good News And The Bad News

Good news is, The Tree of Life made it to the Best Picture, and so did Terrence Malick and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki. Also The Artist, which is the best movie this year except for A Separation. I’m rooting for it.
The Descendants is a perfectly decent…

The Devil Inside

Or The Curse of The Blair Witch Project. Ever since the surprising success of that seminal film, everybody wants to make a cheap horror movie that makes a lot of money. It’s a good strategy: you shoot a horror story on a shaky video camera and pretend it’s for real. This saves the producers tons of…

On DVD: The Ides Of March

Good, dirty fun. George Clooney is a much better director than Clint Eastwood, but he gets no respect. I don’t…

Margaret

There is a lot of great material in this movie about Lisa Cohen, an Upper West Side teenager (Anna Paquin) who is partly responsible for a horrific bus accident. Margaret is a tough coming of age story in which Lisa, an entitled, over-articulate brat, learns her life lessons the hard way. The screenplay, by…

On DVD: The Future

I remember reading sundry reviews about this second movie by professional hipster Miranda July, all of them emphatically caveating how you had to endure a lot of twee, mumbling, pointless hipster anomie to finally come to some arty epiphany about the nature of time. Well, Marcel Proust this…

A Better Life

This movie may be the first film to truly broach the subject of immigration in the US as it currently stands, on a cruel impasse of…

Live Kvetching the Golden Globes 2012: THE DRESSES