In the past couple of years, HBO has offered plenty of programming focused on the Iraq War, nearly all of them painful documentaries: Baghdad Hospital, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, Alive Day Memories.
Now the network takes the narrative approach with the seven-part series Generation Kill, based on the first 40 days of the war as seen by […]
While WALL-E continues being hailed the new standard for animation excellence, today’s movie poster is for an alternative animated style: rotoscoping, in which live action footage is “traced” over. The film is Year of the Fish, a Sundance 2007 selection and festival favorite from Boston to Dallas to San Francisco.
Rotoscoping results in a type of “animated […]
UPDATE (07.31.08): Read my review of Sixty Six on filmcritic.com.
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What’s more uncomfortable than being a 12-year-old? How about being a 12-year-old preparing for a Bar Mitzvah? Wait, it gets worse. Your Bar Mitzvah is the same day as a major event that has the country in its grip. This is Sixty Six, a 2006 production finally getting […]
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Rachel Weisz. Natalie Portman. Norah Jones. Jude Law. This is definitely not a collection of unattractive people. This is the cast of […]
What’ll it be? A G-rated sci-fi family-pleaser from a remarkable studio with nothing but hits? Or a sexy, hyper, bullet-dodging actioner with a good cast? How about both?
:: WALL-E
Rotten Tomatoes: 98 / 100
Metacritic: 91 / 100
filmcritic.com: 5 / 5
Easily, the most impressive reviews of the year. As spectacular as the visual detail of a Pixar film. There’s […]
Just wanted to catch everyone up on more goodies from the buzz-nutty Coen Brothers’ dark comedy, Burn After Reading. Clooney, Pitt, McDormand, Malkovich, Swinton… Imagine if these hacks could recruit some real quality talent?!
Brad Pitt and his greatest wardrobe accessory, 1990s hair
George Clooney and Frances McDormand at a Fargo screening (not really)
Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich!
The pillows […]
