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Another Contender!
After suffering through the pretentious nightmare that is M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village on Sunday, I spent Monday night sick as a dog in NYC seeing the new Brittany Murphy mess Little Black Book. And now we’ve got a two-film race for worst film of 2004! Who wins? As always, YOU decide!
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Busiest. Week. Ever.
Tons of reviews for you, my favorite readers, on this fine Sunday afternoon. Below, you’ll find three new Rocky Mountain Bullhorn reviews of The Bourne Supremacy, Bus 174 and the 1950 John Huston classic The Asphalt Jungle. But wait, there’s more! I’ve also got four new online reviews. They are: Slant magazine: Harold and Kumar…
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Back in the saddle
As regular readers have probably noticed, I haven’t posted any reviews of films I’ve seen for pleasure (as opposed to for work) in the past month or so. The reason is, I’ve been too busy dealing with our move to CT, doctor’s appointments for the impending baby (December 4), and writing lots of freelance reviews…
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Robots or Cary Grant?
Will Smith’s latest summer spectacle isn’t as bad as Wild Wild West or Men in Black II, but one would hardly call I, Robot great…or very original. Unfortunately, at least one of this weekend’s other releases – the gay relationship drama Touch of Pink, which features (as its gimmick) an imaginary Cary Grant character –…
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Anchormaniac
Will Ferrell is crazy, and his new film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, is crazy funny. I itemize the insanity at Slant magazine.
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Knights of the Bland Table
Take out all the magic and romance from the King Arthur legend, and what do you get? The lame new Jerry Bruckheimer-produced King Arthur. My Slant magazine review slices and dices this medieval misstep…
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Two Losers, Two Keepers
I’ve been busy reviewing in this, my last weekend in NYC before making the move out to Stamford, CT next week. For filmcritic.com, I’ve got a positive review of Russian Ark director Aleksandr Sokurov’s new film Father and Son, as well as a brutal critique of next month’s The Door in the Floor, a repulsive…
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Wife-to-Order
What can one say about a pointless remake that no one is interested in and has already been beset by horrible advance buzz? I do my best with Frank Oz’s new The Stepford Wives over at Slant magazine.
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Sunset Romance
Most Hollywood romances seem like they were made by evil Hallmark elves (who do exist, by the way), which is why it’s nice to find that Richard Linklater’s Before Sunset – the follow-up to his 1995 sleeper Before Sunrise – is as stunning as its predecessor. My rapturous review is over at Slant magazine.
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Pitch Blah
Pitch Black was a respectable sci-fi thriller, but its sequel – this Friday’s The Chronicles of Riddick, starring the Lou Ferrigno-esque Vin Diesel as a badass anti-hero who can see in the dark – is overstuffed sci-fi pretentiousness at its worst. My Slant magazine review turns the lights out on this dud…
