I would have been happy to make fun of Tom Cruise’s “Valkyrie” but I thought it was an intelligent, taut suspenser in the mold of those all-star WW II pictures from the 1960s and 70s....
PJ Media "He's not the messiah; he's a very naughty boy!"OK, so Monty Python's classic Life of Brian, about the confusion caused when a Jewish guy is born the next stable over from Jesus ("What is...
PJ Media 'Tis the season for less than merry holiday films.Four Christmases serves up a selfish couple forced to spend time with their inane in-laws. The French drama A Christmas Tale packs more family...
My review of the Frank Miller comic book movie “The Spirit,” starring Samuel L. Jackson, Eva Mendes and Scarlett Johansson, is up.]]>
My review of the new Adam Sandler kiddie comedy, “Bedtime Stories,” is up.]]>
PJ Media Hollywood films rarely even attempt the sweep and heartbreak of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a bewitching, at times overpowering movie that seems likely to win about 50 Oscars. There...
By Debbie Schlussel
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Because of a snowstorm, I did not make it to a screening of “The Spirit,” and missed “Bedtime Stories”...
Frost / Nixon
Directed by Ron Howard
Classic interviews have a way of fastening themselves like barnacles to the reputations of their subjects--as when Roger Mudd asked Teddy Kennedy why...
As I’ve noted before, I’m a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society. Every major city has one of these and each votes on the year’s best movies, actors, etc....
Just to wind up the year in Nazis, two more WW II flicks hit the screen today: the deeply uninteresting “Defiance” and a Viggo Mortensen film about a liberal German professor who finds himself...
The Wall Street Journal has a huge story on the most hotly anticipated movies of 2009–but near the top of the list is “Watchmen,” a Warner Bros. blockbuster that is tied up in court...
PJ Media November didn't mark the end of the political season. Hollywood hasn't handed out its Oscar nominations yet.And when it comes to who wins that golden statuette, a film's politics often plays...
Lou has the scoop on an outraged moviegoer who shot someone for talking during “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” a guy who could become to film lovers what the shoe-thrower is to liberals....
As documented here, here, and here, through the portrayal of the sympathetic child molester, the onscreen hyper-sexualization of young girls, and child characters liberated through sexual behavior, ...
Revolutionary Road opens its story just after the conclusion of a disastrous community theatre production of The Petrified Forest where, on a small, suburban public school stage, April Wheeler (Kate Winslet)...
Just got around to transcribing this amusing message left on my voice mail at the office on Christmas Eve, the day my review of “Marley & Me” ran. (It was a parody of Dan Fogelberg’s...
Roger L. Simon “Big Hollywood” -- the new project of Internet guru/impresario Andrew Breitbart of Breitbart.com and (formerly) the Drudge Report -- makes its debut Tuesday. Working with his...
Doubt Directed by John Patrick Shanley
John Patrick Shanley won a Pulitzer Prize for his play Doubt, which he has now brought to the screen as writer and director.
Shanley...
When it comes to deploring the leftist hegemony in Hollywood, I can deplore with the best of them. It stinks that America-bashing and God-bashing and |
Ed Driscoll One of the (many) reasons why Hollywood has largely slept through this decade is the fecklessness of its writing. Technically, the craft of Hollywood has never been more sophisticated: watch...
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