It’s that time of the year again when the Oscar nominations are announced in oh so serious, dulcet tones by Tom Sherak, president of AMPAS and some lovely Oscar-nominated (or winning) lass of seasons past. This morning it was Jennifer Lawrence, last year’s pre-eminent gleaming blonde ingenue. Because of the theme of this blog, I’m [...]
I’ll admit this right off the bat: I didn’t really want to see this film but unfortunately I was too late for a showing of The Descendants and sadly, The Artist wasn’t playing anywhere near me. So reluctantly, I agreed to see this flick. All in all, I’m glad I went. Despite my fears that [...]
Okay, here are two things you need to know before you read my review of the American remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. 1) I’ve read all three books of Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” trilogy (the first in the series, “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” is the book upon which the current David [...]
The Alliance of Women Film Journalists is pleased to announce the nominees for the 2011 AWFJ EDA Awards. The winners will be announced on January 10, 2012. As in years past, the awards categories include all of the standard bests that are presented by other critics groups. But, in addition, AWFJ has our unique Female Focus Awards and [...]
Courtesy of Zencollegelife.com, check out their 10 “awesomely bad” movies with cult followings. I agree with “Mommy Dearest,” “Showgirls” and “Rocky Horror Show” but I will cede to them when it comes to the others I haven’t seen. Have a read and enjoy: http://www.zencollegelife.com/10-awesomely-bad-films-with-cult-followings/ (FYI, I’m taking a summer break from the blog–I’ll be back [...]
Back in the 1980s when I had less gray hair, I used to be a big fan of David Lynch. He was the hot, up and coming cinematic wunderkind; and although he had a penchant for exploring the bizarre and eccentric in his films, he always executed it with a stylish aesthetic that made pretentious, [...]
Read my article on Broadway dressers in TheaterMania.com! Here’s the link: http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/news/06-2011/dresser-up_38290.html
Movies about money and the people who make or lose them have always been great fodder. From Oliver Stone’s classic greed is good yuppie cautionary epic, “Wall Street” to HBO’s recent “Too Big to Fail” (about the 2008 fall of Lehman Brothers, the once giant investing firm), movies about money continue to be churned out [...]
David Fincher’s long-awaited version of Stieg Larsson’s hugely popular “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” is coming to theaters at the end of the year. The film, which stars Daniel Craig as the tremendously irresistible (readers will know what I’m talking about) journalist/amateur sleuth Mikael Blomvist and Rooney Mara as the eponymous girl herself, Lizbeth [...]
In the new Woody Allen film, Midnight in Paris, the slightly fallen auteur returns to somewhat stellar form with a charming time-travel fable set in the City of Love. Having reached his peak in the 70s and 80s with such films as Annie Hall (a favorite), Manhattan and Hannah and Her Sisters (another favorite), Allen’s [...]