Weekend Countdown: Hard Labor for Labor Day
It’s Labor Day Weekend, and we’ve decided to take a mo and celebrate the hardest labor of all. The pregnant kind. Here are our five favorite pregnant lady flicks. 5.…read more →
Archive For August, 2013
Demanding to be Seen
by George Wolf Surreal, perverse, curious and horrifying, The Act of Killing demands to be seen as much as any film in recent memory. It is anchored in…read more →
Being in Love Means Never Having to Say “Slow Down!”
by Richard Ades Just days after the events depicted in Before Midnight, Jesse (Ethan Hawke) is still smarting from the emasculating attack he endured at the hands of…read more →
Weekend Countdown: Best Young Actresses Not Named Jennifer Lawrence
Shailene Woodley, the 21-year-old who stole scenes from Clooney in The Descendents, finally returns to the big screen with another awe-inspiring turn in this week’s The Spectacular Now. Woodley is…read more →
Pub Crawl Interrupts Review of Movie About Pub Crawl
by George Wolf After successful romps thru zombie flicks (Shaun of the Dead) and cop dramas ( Hot Fuzz), Simon Pegg and company finish up their “Cornetto Trilogy” with The…read more →
They’re On a Road to Nowhere
Prince Avalanche by Hope Madden David Gordon Green is a curious filmmaker. Beginning his career with poignant, Southern independent films, he is perhaps best known for the breakout hit Pineapple…read more →
Sometimes Actually Spectcular
The Spectacular Now by Hope Madden The Spectacular Now suffers slightly from high expectations. National critics quickly heralded the film the summer’s best, and its quirky indie pedigree is tough…read more →
You’re Next Did Nothing First
by Hope Madden It looked like 2013 might be the year of the horror film. First came the visceral thrill of the Evil Dead reboot, then the spectral…read more →
Too Good to Hate
by George Wolf Here’s a news flash: Cate Blanchett can act a little bit. In fact, her performance in Blue Jasmine is so effortlessly great, it’s as if…read more →
Countdown: Top 5 and Bottom 5 Sequels
Yes, the humorless Kick-Ass 2 disappointed, as sequels so often do. Which are the biggest disappointments? And on a brighter note, which sequels lived up to – even exceeded –…read more →