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...
Berg Blanket Bingo
It takes a while to make an animated film. Long enough, in fact, that when directors Ash Brannon and Chris Buck and producer Chris...
Jack of Diamonds
OK, so Ocean’s Twelve came out two and a half years ago, and a lot of ticket-buyers felt as if the thieves on the...
36 Weeks Later
For months, Knocked Up has been the subject of deafening internet buzz, hotly anticipated as the funniest movie of the summer, or even the...
My Name Is Earl
Kevin Costner has been miscast quite often in his career, but perhaps never more disastrously than in the movie out this week, Mr. Brooks....
Flop Cards
I don't play poker. I missed out on the whole craze that ignited and then waned earlier in this decade.
I'm still not sure whether...
Love Bug
Purely from an intellectual standpoint, the existence of Bug tickles me. I love how it starts out as a kitchen-sink indie drama and then...
