May 26, 2013
The Hangover Part III [2013]
The final “Hangover” movie doesn’t include a hangover or the old spirit and wild laughs of the previous films. There is too much Zach Galifianakis and way too much Ken Jeong, but when Galifianakis resigns from the Wolfpack, it is genuinely sad.
d: Todd Phillips | imdb.com | trailer
Archive | The Hangover | The Hangover Part II
May 25, 2013
Star Trek Into Darkness [2013]
J.J. Abrams makes well-executed but benign PG-13 pop culture, and he has done it again with his second “Star Trek” movie, which seems like just the second part of a reboot. Kirk cries in the first act, then Spock shows he has feelings in the third.
d: J.J. Abrams | imdb.com | trailer | Ultimate Saga trailer
Archive | Star Trek [2009]
April 21, 2013
April 16, 2013
Room 237 [2013]
Five film obsessives explain what Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” is really about in this sort-of documentary. Their theories are complete and wonderful nonsense. Ultimately, the meaning of the film doesn’t matter, only that it means everything to these people.
d: Rodney Ascher | imdb.com | trailer | Last Call with Carson Daly
The Shining | The Power of ... | All work and no play makes Jack ...
April 7, 2013
Spring Breakers [2013]
Four college girls, two of them with a Disney pedigree, hit Spring Break and jail in an arthouse exploitation film. Then James Franco, wearing grillz and cornrows, bails them out, croons some Britney Spears and then the gunplay. This is really good (trash).
d: Harmony Korine | imdb.com | trailer | Chauffeur
April 5, 2013
Roger Ebert [1942-2013]
Roger Ebert reviewed movies for 46 years at the Chicago Sun-Times, where he won a Pulitzer Prize, and later on his web site and Twitter. But it was on television, as the larger half of “Siskel & Ebert,” that
he made film criticism accessible to everyone.
Appreciation | Chicago Sun-Times | A.O. Scott | Richard Corliss
Famous reviews | Hoop Dreams | North | Cop and a Half
On talk shows | Johnny Carson | David Letterman | Bob Costas
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