Here’s an excerpt from my review in The American Conservative:
The bald and square-jawed Ed Harris has played American heroes and psycho killers since first drawing notice as astronaut John Glenn...
Canadian Caper Ben Affleck has made himself into a brand name over the last half decade for directing well-made suspense movies for intelligent grown-ups: Gone Baby Gone, The Town, and now Argo. They’re...
ArgoStar WarsDie Hard I finally got around to seeing “Argo” earlier this week, and was astounded at how thoroughly it failed (in my view) to measure up to the considerable hype. I’d...
The white protagonist is a fumbling pansy, but that's his character as the geeky scientist trope. Definitely easy to ignore and not get too annoyed by. There were a couple scenes and lines in there about a woman being strong and tough, while making the white men seem like threatened bigots blind to how badass chicks can be. â—”_â—” But that is also to be expected. Just a cheesy family flick, so don't...
Lance Arrival is a girl sci-fi movie in the tradition of Jody Foster’s Contact. Amy Adams plays a linguist (or some other kind of language-related academic) with a sad back story much like Sandra...
Klavan On The Culture var dataLayer = window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; dataLayer.push({ 'videoName': 'THE ARROYO: Official Trailer', 'videoType': 'Curated' }); Jeremy Boreing's film The...
Here is the umpteenth British film that attacks and satirizes the British upper classes. So what else is new? What is new is the depths of irrationality and absurdity to which the film sinks. Here is the...
The movie brought in $683,000 on 299 screens yesterday. Not bad for a low-budget indie — the per-screen take is higher than any film above it except the two big openers this weekend — but...
From my movie review in Taki’s Magazine: Atlas Shrugged: Part I is the most universally despised movie of 2011, but I liked it. Critics hate this adaptation of Ayn Rand’s 1957 cult novel...
From my movie review in Taki’s Magazine:
Atlas Shrugged: Part I is the most universally despised movie of 2011, but I liked it. Critics hate this adaptation of Ayn Randâs 1957...
Roger Simon posits that conservatives should stop whining about Hollywood bias and just make better movies, citing the “fiasco” of “Atlas Shrugged” as exhibit A. It isn’t...
From my review in The American Conservative:
Many successful date movies, such as “Casablanca” and “Gone with the Wind,” combine a love story for the ladies and a war for the...
Here’s my American Conservative review of “Australia,” which only got one Oscar nomination — Best Costumes for director Baz Luhrman’s wife. (So, Baz gets shut out, but at...
Avatar Archives Is the new edition of “Avatar” worth another look? I haven’t gotten it yet, but the Wall Street Journal says it’s a must: Avatar Extended Collector’s Edition...
An unintentionally funny story about how “Avatar” fans are depressed after seeing the movie — because our own world doesn’t measure up to Pandora.]]>
Lou Lumenick is on vacation but over at his blog I posted some thoughts on the 20-minute clip reel of James Cameron’s “Avatar,” a spectacular-looking 3D adventure that combines elements...
From my upcoming review in The American Conservative:
The director and the screenwriter of “Babel,” the Golden Globe-winning “Best Drama” of 2006, have been feuding over...
Car chases.
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