March 20, 2008
This Week: tales of unbridled retarded joy from the HI!SBSCED! Blog-a-Thon
This ensemble comedy about a lebanese beauty shop is a sweet twist on the chick-flick genre
by Matthew Halliday
With its third-rate futuristic zombie-fighting scenario, Doomsday is as inessential as movies get
by Scott Lingley
After two crappy live-action pictures, Horton Hears a Who! wields the awesome power of Seuss
by James Hamilton
Viva does for tacky ’70s softcore porn what Far From Heaven did for old Douglas Sirk movies
by Tom Murray
The mountain goddess would marvel at the changed chinese landscape of Up the Yangtze
by Matt Hubert
Richard Kelly follows up Donnie Darko with the miscast mishmash known as Southland Tales
by Paul Matwychuk
March 13, 2008
Oh, Roland Emmerich... your dopey prehistoric epic 10,000 B.C. is as irresistible as a black jellybe
by James Hamilton
This Week: Robert Downey Jr.’s upcoming blackface role in Tropic thunder
Funny Games’ audience-alienating shenanigans might actually cause a riot in the theatre
by Paul Matwychuk
Ellen Page tries to pull herself together in the inventively kaleidoscopic The Tracey Fragments
by Scott Lingley
Never Back Down speaks to all our high school memories of taking part in brutal illegal streetfights
by Paul Matwychuk
March 6, 2008
This week: More reactions to 4 Months, 3 weeks and 2 Days
Buddhist cooking doc is a slow but rewarding look at people for whom food is everything—literally
by Matthew Halliday
Sparkling retro comedy Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day merits comparison to My Man Godfrey
by Tom Murray
Jason Statham is in a half-decent movie for once: the gritty ’70s heist picture The Bank Job
by Scott Lingley
Who cares if the Oscars snubbed it? 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is a harrowing masterpiece
by Paul Matwychuk