Xander ,'Bring On The Night'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
"condescending and misanthropic."
The Coen's have been getting that one their entire career. I'm not sure they'd take that as an insult. "Self-loathing" however is a new one. They are pretty much equal opportunity abusers when it comes to the ethnic/religious backgrounds, IMO.
It's the same thing that Philip Roth got after Portnoy's Complaint. There's a lot of cultural enforcement about ethnic identities within a community.
Half Blood Prince has worked its way to the rep houses, and Emmett and I saw it at the Red Vic on Haight Street. It's my fourth time and it's grown on me. Jim Broadbent's performance is just so masterful - comic and tragic. If you just shift your focus slightly around, it's a very interesting and dark story about Horace Slughorn. I think you could take (the non-magical portions of) the plot and performance, translate them to Germany before and after the war and you'd have a Pulitzer Prize winning play.
I love "Portnoy" I probably read it before I should have, though. It probably gave me wrong impressions. But I think its most lasting impact on me(besides strengthening my resolve to never, ever, eat liver) is the way that it's written, in terms of finding the freaky in ordinary stuff, and the way that you can hear the people's voices. But obviously, I'm speaking as someone outside Judaism. Philip Roth probably gave me my thing for Brainy Jewish Guys, even though I mostly use what I learned from him writing Munch fanfiction more than my own stuff(I don't know how Roth himself would feel about this, but I never accept the compliments without acknowledging him as an influence.)
Zombieland was fun. I think Shaun of the Dead was funnier, but Zombieland was a more successful blend of both drama and comedy. It was unexpectedly affecting at times. And, yes, the cameo was pretty great.
Somebody took the long trailer for
2012
and cut out all the SFX, so you can concentrate on the stellar screaming acting on display:
Interview with Penny Chenery about Secretariat - the horse and the movie.
Ooooh! David Tennant and Simon Pegg are going to be in John Landis's Burke and Hare, based on a true story about two 19th century graverobbers who sell cadavers to Ediburgh medical students.
Ooooh! David Tennant and Simon Pegg are going to be in John Landis's Burke and Hare, based on a true story about two 19th century graverobbers who sell cadavers to Ediburgh medical students.
Nobody worry if you hear a giant squeal. That's just me, dying of happiness.
Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune has a four-star rave for Where the Wild Things Are.