We skipped Before You Go last week, primarily due to a packed schedule. Secondarily, because all of last weekend’s major releases sucked. Yes, there are plenty of posts out in bloggy world that say January is not the cinematic wasteland of its reputation, but I say it’s damn close. Clearly, it’s been the perfect atmosphere […]
If an actress were to make a nearly unending series of duds, would she be considered second-rate? A joke, perhaps? Maybe even a business liability? Well, there is such a performer with that unenviable track record. And she appears to continue emerging fairly unscathed. We give you the film career of one Kate Garry Hudson.
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As a kid, I was hooked on the annual yearbook published by the Encyclopedia Britannica. A complete summary of a year’s news and cultural events in one smartly bound volume, 12 months of important stuff finely edited and infinitely addictive. For the 60th year, Screen World has done the same for movies, chronicling an entire […]
by Norm Schrager, posted 01.25.10
4 / 5 stars
Police, Adjective is a difficult film to describe. It’s also a tough one to watch — not because there’s graphic violence or brutal subject matter, quite the opposite. This quiet character study and Cannes Jury Prize winner from Romanian Corneliu Porumboiu (award-winner 12:08 East of Bucharest) exercises an […]
If you were instantly taken with the low-key indie The Puffy Chair (and by “you”, I mean “me”), then you know Jay and Mark Duplass. The writing/directing brothers have leaped — okay gradually walked — from the semi-mumblecore indie world into the universe of major distribution. Now Movieweb has learned of Jeff Who Lives At […]
