Take The City And Run

So, once upon a time, Steven Spielberg made this movie about aliens coming down to Earth and causing all sorts of paranoid, perplexed pandemonium. But, whataya know? They didn’t even start a world war, much less a war of the worlds. Instead, they just belted some big tuba from their mothership in a wonderful duet […]

This week’s issue of Time offers a host of articles on Abraham Lincoln. One essay on the great Illinois statesman is by none other than today’s most well-known Illinois politician: Barack Obama. And there’s plenty more where that came from.

Reuters reports (via Movie Marketing Blog) that AMC will give moviegoers their money back if they don’t enjoy Cinderella Man. Seems like a pretty ballsy move, but it’s definitely good to see a company throw their support behind a movie they actually believe in instead of the usual case of trying to shove big budget […]

A trailer for Peter Jackson’s remake of King Kong is available online (via Gothamist).

Stella landed on Comedy Central last night. For many who came of age in the mid-nineties, The State’s MTV show is a fond memory, much mourned since its premature demise. If only Comedy Central had been around back then! After all, between Reno 911 and, now, Stella, more than half the members of the state […]

MTV’s new season of Made premieres tonight with an episode that Jenny worked on.

War Of The Worlds(dir. Steven Spielberg; w/ Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Tim Robbins)Chances are it will disappoint, but sometimes you just have to go see stuff get blown up.
And if big budget, sci-fi action flicks just aren’t your thing, maybe you’ll be interested in…
The Beat That My Heart Skipped(dir. Jacques Audiard)

A look at some recent movies that haven’t sucked (also see: Batman Begins and Mad Hot Ballroom):
Cinderella Man (dir. Ron Howard)
What’s the deal with boxing movies? Hollywood, it seems, loves a brawler. The ring offers an ideal setting for the classic rags-to-riches underdog story and, in this case, the usual Imagine Entertainment Oscar-baiting sentimentality that […]

Jen offers an interesting and amusing look at similarities between the Christian Bale roles in Batman Begins and American Psycho, offering an imagined inner monologue by Bruce Wayne in the style of Patrick Bateman. Excerpt:
“After I remove the bat mask I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower I use a water activated […]

Landmark Sunshine Theatre and Two Boots Pioneer now have some competition in the midnight movie game: Paris Theatre recently began a new series, inaugurated with timely showings of All The President’s Men. And with this week’s feature being 2001: A Space Odyssey (Saturday night only), you have to wonder if the Paris’ programming will end […]

Directed by Christopher Nolan, 2005viewed June 17, 2005IMDb listing
All the waiting through ridiculous casting and director possibilities paid off. Nolan, as evidenced by his previous work on Memento and Insomnia, is a maker of intelligent genre films. It’s about time someone treated Batman, a character for whom intelligence is a key character asset, in such […]

Now there’s a Flickr-like site for video clips: Vimeo. More on this later…