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Cloverfield uses a bunch of people’s cell phone videos to tell the story of how happy, wealthy, attractive foodies in New York City are suddenly blindsided by an enemy that they were completely ignorant of but yet had long plotted against them.
After decades — nay, centuries — of suffering at the hands of the Western [...]

“27 Dresses” is a remake of “Pretty Woman,” except here the ingenue is a bridesmaid instead of a hooker.
Sigh.
I could try to say something smart here about a wedding fetish, but really, it’s not even worth it.

I’ve got to get this review in quick, because before I know it I’m going to have this movie forced upon me on a flight.
The last time I didn’t see a movie like this I was on a plane sitting behind a pair of very stern and perhaps even angry 50ish spiky haired women who, [...]

This movie is about an old man who thinks he’s young — or maybe it’s a young man who thinks he’s old — anyway, the plot here is novel because it’s the same guy: the young guy is the old guy, and vice versa. He lives in this big, castle-like estate with [...]

Hey, hold on - there’s nothing numbing my mind. And I’m sitting perfectly still.
Holy crap. I must not think. OK, bring in the emergency standbys. Alphabet backwards … done. Star Trek episodes when James T. was a hottie … done. Grade school classroom seating per alphabetical [...]

I’m now being invited to all kinds of movie previews and showings; quite a perk for a reviewer such as myself. Useless, in other words. I do go see some movies after I’ve reviewed them, but I usually leave halfway through, as I already know how it’s going to go.
This invite left me [...]

There are good books, and there are good movies. Rarely, in my opinion, do the twain meet. Different media, different consumers. Not to say that one can’t go both ways. There are just … boundaries. One might be able to go a bit further in one’s head than by means [...]

Must be, dreaming. Wan, thin, serious women. Related. Toile-covered sofas. (I love that word, toile. It’s so much better than chintz.) A lot of dialog. A lot. Some picking at scabs. Navel gazing. Rehashing of trivial wrongs inflicted. Extended mourning for imagined scenery along [...]

This movie is so 10 years ago. Comets? Cults? Been there, done that, hale-bopp-ta-tee-dopp.
Even so, there’s something truly creepy about this film.
So the Heaven’s Gate “away team” launched off our planet in 1997, following the discovery of what was said to be a ginormous comet, although I could never see it. [...]

I love gritty urban crime dramas: the cigarettes, three-day stubble, east-of-St. Louis accents, big American cars and sparely tchotchked apartments. I’m a sucker for the sinewy smart criminal/detective out for his last big score/bust who talks like a longshoreman and secretly pursues some artistic endeavor in the abandoned top floor of a warehouse with [...]