Archive for the ‘New Movies’ Category
Friday, June 19th, 2009
Citizen Cain
‘Year One’ is better than ‘Wholly Moses’ anyway.
THOUGH IT’S too small for a big screen, Year One’s rigorous close-ups on Jack Black’s face will make this movie play better on TV. The hapless hunter-gatherer named Oh (Michael Cera, the film’s reliable standout), and the second-lowest man in the clan, ...
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
No, wait, the line up is apparently Penn as Larry and Del Toro as Moe. What the hell is up with that? You're telling me Sean Penn isn't angrier than Del Toro?
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
And Bencio Del Toro is either Shemp or Larry, I can't tell which. But it's apparently not bullshit, despite how it sounds. And now, 44 years after Godard predicted it during the end titles of Weekend, this IS the end of cinema:
Casting Announcement
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
The Hangover. A well-built, good-looking and satisfyingly low comedy with a sturdy silent movie two-reeler plot and the wit to realize that the Three Stooges format is solid gold. A quartet of Southern California types heads to Vegas for a bachelor party. They’re given a backhanded approval from the father ...
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
May 3 at 9pm: at SFIFF at the Kabuki, part of the Foreign Territories short series: Mathew Szymanowski’s History of Solitude, a.k.a. Historia Samotnosci. You wouldn’t go to Poland expecting it to look almost exactly like the United States, but that’s the trick this talented Santa Clara-raised expatriate filmmaker plays ...
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
Smooth as Silk: Malin Akerman in ‘Watchmen’
(Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures)
Nocturnal Proclivities
Watchmen: the most divisive film since they buried Kubrick.
By Richard von Busack
IN 2009, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ clock is set at 5 minutes to midnight; the famous graph is used to suggest how close the world is to ...
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
Corpse Run is an entertaining coming-of-age movie about a group of PC gamers. It’s a low-budget Reality Bites, with a lot more beautiful people then you would expect see playing video games 24/7. Director and writer John-Michael Thomas creatively uses random inserts of game modes, voice-overs and the Windows blue ...
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Friday, February 13th, 2009
Bad Credit
Isla Fisher goes shopping in ‘Confessions,’ but the joke falls flat in broke economy
FROM THE POSTERS for [i]Confessions of a Shopaholic[/i], Isla Fisher looks like Amy Adams’ twin sister. Up-close, she’s a stranger creature, nearer to Lucille Ball. In slow-mo, director P.J. Hogan shows off Fisher’s prodigious jiggle-power. It ...
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Monday, January 12th, 2009
Tipsier, blousier and with more cleavage than the Oscars, the 65-year-old Golden Globe awards went on with its show last night. The telecast faced tight competition from Jack Bauer and the ladies of Wisteria Lane. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association ceremony is best known as the group unhampered by having ...
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
You want to tread with care when you’re treading on the dreams of young girls, but by God, that pitiless fountain of Mormon gibberish Stephenie Meyer is a bad writer, so bad she’s apparently unable to spell her own first name. An English BA at BYU doesn’t keep you from ...
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