Greene Journalism
Much like Dreamgirls, Talk to Me is set in the recent past and addresses the vexing question of the place of black entertainers in...
Aerosol Cheese
John Waters’ 1988 film Hairspray marked that precarious moment when it looked like Waters would successfully transform from the ultimate filmmaking outsider to a...
Bale Out
Werner Herzog isn’t the last filmmaker you’d expect to make a straight-up drama about U.S. military heroism, but he’d be pretty far down the...
Freezing Spell
The opening scene of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix takes place in brilliant sunshine, which we don’t often see in these...
The Brad Seed
To begin with, the current film Joshua has nothing to do with the sleepy 2002 movie by the same name that starred Tony Goldwyn...
Hit Me Again
Of all the living actors who’ve been knighted by the queen of England, have any of them found their way into more crappy movies...
Robots in Distress
The time seems ripe for a re-evaluation of Michael Bay. It’s been almost 10 years since his Armageddon ruled the box office by sheer...
C’est délicieux, ce film
I keep worrying about Pixar. I worry that they now put out a movie every year instead of once every two or three years,...
Health Scare System
Those reports you’ve heard about the new, self-effacing Michael Moore turn out to be more or less true in his latest documentary, Sicko.
Turning...
Oh, God! Book II
The biggest laugh in the 2003 comedy Bruce Almighty didn’t come from the movie’s star, Jim Carrey.
It came from a then-little-known Steve Carell, playing...
