A Serious Man is a brilliant movie, one of the Coen Brothers’ best.
Alice’s Adventures in Neverland
The new Alice in Wonderland is perfectly fine as 3D spectacle, but it’s missing most of its muchness
Best of 2009: Movies
Real bloggers make year-end lists because they get paid per post. I’m doing it because I like to talk.
Empty Shells
Avatar is fine for what it is, but watching it just made me kind of sad and disillusioned about the creative process.
CSI: Victorian London
Evidently I saw the new Sherlock Holmes movie tonight. I remember the color gray and some explosions.
Helveticus Indiefilmicus
Fantastic Mr. Fox is one cuss of a good movie, as long as you like Wes Anderson.
Counting the Beams
I Know Where I’m Going is a love story between a man and a woman, a director and a country, and me and the movies of Powell and Pressburger.
It Makes Me Wonder
Rediscovering Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s amazing WWII romantic propaganda fantasy A Matter of Life and Death (Stairway to Heaven in the U.S.)










