Favorite Oscar moment
Thursday, March 11th, 2010It occurred backstage, during a Q&A with Best Actor winner Jeff Bridges. It's about 1:30 into this clip when he quotes the Dude: "Strikes and gutters, man."
It occurred backstage, during a Q&A with Best Actor winner Jeff Bridges. It's about 1:30 into this clip when he quotes the Dude: "Strikes and gutters, man."
Spot on Avatar review
Monday, February 1st, 2010I have no idea who RedLetterMedia is, but his reviews are spot on. The killer quote from his Avatar review: The ultimate irony with Avatar is that for all the time and money spent to make this movie in 3D, the story and the characters were still stuck in ...
Music is the freight train
Thursday, August 27th, 2009I was taken with Passing Strange when I saw it at the Belasco last year. The more I listened to the music, the more I admired the show and the magnificent Stew who wrote and starred in it. I told friends about the wonderfully inventive show about finding yourself, about ...
The Fallen did not get his revenge
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009He fell. Hard. Though not as hard as his nemesis, Best First (aka Optimus Prime) who took the prize home for my favorite moment in this mashup of a film, filled so full of clichés it could have been a stuffed grape leaf of derivation. I don't think I'm giving ...
Holes: Terminator Salvation
Monday, June 1st, 2009There may be too may to list. John Connor seems to have only these tapes that his mother made to connect him to her. As if the current television show, "The Sarah Connor Chronicles," never happened. As if he didn't spend most of his life running from much more ...
Hollywood
Thursday, April 30th, 2009At the screening of The Road, we sat one row in front of the invited guests, who included the writer (Joe Penhall) and the director (John Hillcoat) of the movie. The first invited guest to arrive, and who took the seat directly behind me, was none other than Brett Ratner, ...
