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...
Reporting Live
Michael Winterbottom has spent the last 10 years as one of the world’s most prolific and influential filmmakers, and yet A Mighty Heart marks...
Drew’s Clues
When feminism was still known as “the women’s movement” and associated with corset-wearing suffragettes, along came Nancy Drew.
The plucky, defiantly modern girl detective was...
Team Manager
Daniel Del Purgatorio has never attended a horror-movie convention, which may sound odd for a self-confessed horror enthusiast who speaks glowingly of Takashi Miike’s...
