If you’ve taken a Romance language, you know that everything sounds better in a foreign language than in English. I took Spanish in high school and even a phrase like “I just took a giant shit ” sounded like poetry when spoken with that beautiful Spanish phrasing.
The same can be said about actress Penelope Cruz, [...]
The Spanish Muse
List of the Week: Movies I Want to See This Summer
18 more days until I graduate.
Still haven’t decided 100% where I’m going to college, but wherever I end up going, I can’t wait to get there. With AP tests and the hoopla in these final months as graduation nears, I haven’t been able to spend much time on this blog. I used to spend my [...]
Roger Ebert’s Journal
Being a film critic involves taking a lot of flak. Setting yourself up for a lot of hatred from Hollywood for expressing a negative opinion. People telling you bitterly that you should try making a movie. Dealing with hexes (more on this below).
Roger Ebert has dealt with all of this and more, always in a [...]
List of the week: Worst actors working today
Some people are just naturally gifted actors. It’s in their blood; that, or they just work really hard at their craft. Some, on the other hand, are naturally awful actors. They are painful to watch on-screen. And inexplicably, they still churn out movie after movie. So here’s a list of some men I consider the [...]
You’re so beautiful, it hurts to look at you
What I love about the short-lived series My So-Called Life (1993) is that it understands me more than I understand myself. My life isn’t exactly the same as Angela Chase’s, but I see the same feelings and conversations manifested in her character, almost frighteningly. I just listen to her voice over during scenes thinking, “That’s [...]
Adios Totes McGotes
Pardon my French, but I Love You, Man is the best effing comedy I’ve seen all year (and probably will see all year).
Gracias to Paramount Pictures
Peter (Paul Rudd) just got engaged to Zooey (Rashida Jones), who has many close girlfriends. He, however, has no close male friends. He has always been very devoted to his [...]
Farewell
Natasha Richardson, 45, died today of injuries from a recent skiing accident on a beginner’s slope in Quebec. You might remember her as the mother in The Parent Trap (1998). She was a Tony-award winning stage actress and the wife of actor Liam Neeson. Such a sudden and tragic death. Her family didn’t see it [...]
List of the week: Movies about high school teachers
The only thing that really excited me about hearing there would be a National Honors Society assembly today was that my classes would be cut down by ten minutes. In my years here, NHS assemblies have not been the most exciting or moving of assemblies. They tend to consist of a droning keynote speech, a [...]
Get the most bang for your buck
You know those days when you’re completely bored and decide to mosey into a theater and see a random movie? Maybe you’ve seen the trailer a few months earlier. Maybe you read a one-sentence description of the movie in the paper. Maybe just you went up to the cashier and mentally stabbed at a movie [...]
It’s not who you love, it’s how
In keeping with the spirit of the wonderful “Gay Marriage and a Chocolate Chip Cookie” assembly in the gym today, I decided to feature a movie called Chasing Amy (1997).
Gracias to View Askew
Directed by the unmatchable Kevin Smith, the movie asks the tough questions about love and relationships. Holden (Ben Affleck) falls for Alyssa [...]
