You know how Batman, when he takes a brutal hit, you see him stagger, stuggle to stay upright as he falters unsteady on his feet? The pain is palpable, and you feel the same bone-cracking hurt that he does. He might even go down, and you worry for a second, OMG, Is he alright? Why won’t he rise up? Even though you know in your soul that he’ll ultimately prevail...
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Very few reviews to choose from. Here’s something tepid from the Guardian‘s Peter Bradshaw (as if we care what he thinks Mamma Mia! The Movie is very different. Everything has been squeaky-cleaned up. It too has a feelgood wedding motif – but there is no irony, no heartache, certainly no paralysing illness, no dramatic plausibility, and weirdly, no hint...
What’s fair for the goose, is fair for the geezer. I was planning to expand this concept into something about how cartoons this summer are giving us more meaty news to chew on than actual live-action political discourse, but got too wrapped up in other work. So I’ll have to drop this Salon bomb and run, and come back later to see what you guys think before...
When did our friends at Cinematical go in for cosmetical surgery? Love the new look. Feels, um, cozy, warm… eerily familar. Burgundy is the new black, cinnabar is the new brown. Nicely compatible with AD now. With their sharp new matching tuxedo, I think Cinematical wants to go to Senior Prom with us. Congratulations guys, seriously, it looks terrific. The velvety...
A couple of sour notes from The New Yorker and New York Magazine today (ChicaGotham envy?), but the raves rolling in still far outnumbering the thumps for The Dark Knight. As with the early reviews last week, it’s not so much the overall favorable reviews, but the elevated tenor of the praise that feels noteworthy: Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly …in...
Like a reckless act of slasher vandalism, the scattered cards and splattered blood stains on the latest poster for The Dark Knight foretell a violent clash of sinister forces. In spite of the coarse prankster mockery of the scratched graffiti catch-phrases, the poster has an overlay of aged shabbiness that gives it a surprisingly archaic quality. Maybe it’s the...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2bLNkCqpuY[/youtube] Continuing to catch up with posts and themes of the past week, and hoping to reopen some topics I missed. With another riff on a series for which Sasha and I share equal enthusiasm, here are two memorable scenes from Mad Men, remarkable for how quickly they’re able sweep us up in the emotions of the moment...