Argo, Psychopaths: Let’s Fake a Movie!
By coincidence, the titles of both movies this week refer to movies within the movies. Neither Argo nor Seven Psychopaths is really about the...
Frankenweenie: Ghost Dog
Expanded from the same 1984 short film that got Tim Burton fired as a Disney animator, Frankenweenie (which Burton has made under Disney’s auspices,...
Wallflower: End of the Tunnel
Stephen Chbosky’s coming-of-age novelette The Perks of Being a Wallflower was a huge hit when it was published in 1999, and the author received...
Super Looper
You can’t accuse Rian Johnson of lacking ambition. Best known for his polarizing debut film, the 2006 high-school noir picture Brick, Johnson has come...
Pitch Perfect: College Notes
Between Glee, YouTube, and TV’s various singing competition shows, our pop culture is awash in cover songs like never before. That’s why the spectacle...
End of Watch: Partners Against Crime
End of Watch is the third in a string of look-at-me-I’m-so-gritty dramas about Los Angeles cops directed by David Ayer. This one is different,...
Master: Almighty Dodd
Bear with me here. I write this review a scant hour or so after watching Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, and like most of...
Arbitrage: High-Risk Bonds
One thing about New York City: In no other place on Earth are the very rich, the very poor, and everybody in between thrown...
Bill W.: Demon Drink
The title of Bill W. refers to William G. Wilson, the former Wall Street securities analyst who lost his livelihood to alcoholism and the...
Bachelorette: Maids of Dishonor
Remember that post-Bridesmaids wave of ill-behaved female humor that I mentioned last week? It reaches high tide this week with Bachelorette, a comedy that...
