The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans
Werner Herzog in spirit sequel to the 1992 film Bad Lieutenant is a trippy, darkly humorous, detective story with Nicholas Cage’s Terrance taking us on a wild ride into depravity that we can’t really predict. During the mayhem of hurricane Katrina Terrance and his partner watch a prisoner trapped in a cell as the water […]
“Pants on the Ground” from American Idol Spurs Slew of Covers and Remixes
In my opinion, the American Idol formula is wearing a little thin. When Simon Cowell is deciding to leave the show and mega-bucks behind, I think it is especially clear. It really is just more of the same every season, and it seems like the contestants that don’t even win the competition often become more […]
Golden Globe Predictions 2010 – Film
Here we are, a day before the second biggest award show of the movie season. Every year the Hollywood Foreign Press nominate people in the arts of film and television, and every year someone gets angry at the lack of nominations or the fact that the “wrong” person won. I like the Golden Globes because […]
A Single Man – Movie Review
Based on a novel of the same name, A Single Man stars Colin Firth as George, a middle-aged homosexual English professor. Set in 1963, the film takes place over the course of one day as George attempts to go about his daily routine while still struggling with the grief of losing his partner Jim (Matthew […]
The Lovely Bones – Movie Review
Based on the runaway bestselling novel, The Lovely Bones tells the story of Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan), a 14-year old girl murdered in the early ‘70s. Susie narrates her story from beyond the grave, not as a ghost story per se, but as an ethereal onlooker; trapped between this life and the next in a […]
The Book of Eli – Movie Review
Denzel Washington’s latest film The Book of Eli provides me with yet another opportunity to use the phrase “post-apocalyptic”. (It seems like recently I’ve used it so frequently I’d be well served to give the phrase its own shortcut key.) It’s been thirty years since “the flash”, presumably a nuclear war of some kind though […]
