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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

Love in the time of apocalypse.

Movie Reviews & Stories In a world where the Armageddon plan of attack didn’t work and the asteroid is still coming for us, a dialed-down Steve Carell sits listening to a forecast of the end of the world. His wife fl More

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 SAUNDRA SORENSON

Surviving Progress

Spoiler alert: We’re all screwed.

Movie Reviews & Stories Surviving Progress, Mathieu Roy and Harold Crook’s harangue against modern civilization, is Seeking a Friend for the End of the World for those who prefer their pre-apocalypse movies aggressively More

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Heavy Muddle

Rock of Ages will bash your brains in, and not in the good way.

Movie Reviews & Stories At the 2009 Tony Awards, Poison singer Bret Michaels performed his band’s 20-year-old party anthem “Nothin’ but a Good Time” in conjunction with Rock of Ages, a Broadway musical glorifying More

Wednesday, June 13, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Whine Tasting With Adam Sandler

Parsing the not-many voices of America’s laziest comedian.

Movie Reviews & Stories At this point, it’s clear Adam Sandler is just trolling us. He’s self-aware enough to know he’s the laziest, most cash-grabbingest comic actor in the country. You can’t even hate him for More

Wednesday, June 13, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Hysteria

A movie with great buzz. Am I right, ladies?!

Movie Reviews & Stories It is absolutely true that many Victorian-era doctors would masturbate their female patients. It wasn’t... More

Wednesday, June 13, 2012 SAUNDRA SORENSON

Cave of Misbegotten Dreams

Thinking about God, aliens and aryan androids in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus.

Movie Reviews & Stories In Prometheus, Ridley Scott’s long-anticipated return to the science-fiction genre, the director confronts a... More

Wednesday, June 6, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Moonrise Kingdom

Wes Anderson’s first boner.

Movie Reviews & Stories How telling, in hindsight, is that scene in The Royal Tenenbaums where Gene Hackman tries to restore Gwyneth Paltrow to her childhood by taking her to an ice cream parlor where the speakers play V More

Wednesday, June 6, 2012 AARON MESH

Safety Not Guaranteed

Mumbling through time.

Movie Reviews & Stories There is something heartbreakingly true in witnessing a wizened writer in his mid-30s demand of an intern, “Why are you sitting there in front of that screen? You’re a young man!” Why are More

Wednesday, June 6, 2012 SAUNDRA SORENSON

Enemy of the State

This Is Not a Film is a stirring act of mundane defiance.

Movie Reviews & Stories This Is Not a Film opens with Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi alone at his breakfast table, spreading jam on flatbread and talking to a friend over speakerphone. “I’m stuck in a problem,” he More

Wednesday, May 30, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

The Intouchables

It’s the casually racist buddy comedy of the year!

Movie Reviews & Stories Can there be a more insulting “fish out of water” trope than putting a bored black man in front of a chamber orchestra, then holding for laughs? It’s where poor Omar Sy finds himself as Dris More

Wednesday, May 30, 2012 SAUNDRA SORENSON

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