In last week’s issue of Time mag­a­zine their film critic Richard Corliss wrote a rather lengthy arti­cle on why he thought that all of the best movies this year were block­busters. Some of his favorites from the past year were Iron Man, Speed Racer, WALL-E and The Dark Knight, and while I agree with two […]

I’m a fre­quent reader of Ain’t It Cool News, the grand­fa­ther of all movie rumor sites that was started by rotund Aus­ti­nite Harry Knowles in 1996. If you want to know some­thing, any­thing, about an upcom­ing movie that’s sci-fi or arty or action related it’s the place to check out first. More than likely that […]

I like the Jason Bourne movies because they’re gritty and real­is­tic (kinda) ((If you can say any­thing about these movies it’s that they reignited the James Bond fran­chise. Daniel Craig is no Pierce Bros­nan in Casino Royale. He’s one mean SOB.)) and Matt Damon is much bet­ter as a CIA assas­sin than I thought he […]

Laura Lin­ney is, accord­ing to many peo­ple who know more than I do, sup­pos­edly a good actress, [1. She’s been nom­i­nated for two Acad­emy Awards for Best Actress and Best Sup­port­ing Actress as well as won many other act­ing awards.] but it’s hard for me to see what all the fuss is about. When I […]

There is a film that pre­miered at Cannes this year called Short­bus. I don’t expect you to have heard about it or John Cameron Mitchell, the direc­tor of the film, but I read about this stuff, hence my knowl­edge of its exis­tence. The film is pretty much polit­i­cal porn, at least that’s what Mitchell says […]