Salute Your Undershorts
The secret Hollywood history behind No Pants Day
Josh Rosenblatt
241-270 of 473 entries
Screens, May 2, 2008
Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay
Everyone's favorite stoner pals are back; this time running from the law after being mistaken for terrorists.
Movie Review, May 2, 2008
Baby Mama
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler skewer motherhood but make sure that nothing gets terribly burnt.
Movie Review, April 25, 2008
Chapter 27
Jared Leto gains weight and lets it all hang out as John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, in this fictionalized account of what occurred at the Dakota.
Movie Review, April 25, 2008
Dark Matter
A Chinese student studying theoretical cosmology in the U.S. also has a lot of dark matter occupying his head, and not even the assistance of faculty wife Meryl Streep can prevent it from taking over.
Movie Review, April 18, 2008
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me fame chases after the world's most wanted man and comes up empty but fulfilled.
Movie Review, April 18, 2008
Papa Brasilia
Nelson Pereira dos Santos Retrospective
Screens, April 11, 2008
Sex and Death 101
This serial-killer comedy, which screened during Fantastic Fest, is a self-indulgent, snarky, scattershot affair.
Movie Review, April 11, 2008
Summer Palace
This Chinese film dramatizing the Tiananmen Square massacre earned the director a five-year ban from making movies
Screens, April 4, 2008
Snow Angels
Filmmaker David Gordon Green guides his cast, headed by Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale, through a fumbling world of nursed grudges and blown opportunities.
Movie Review, April 4, 2008
Chicago 10
The trial that resulted from the demonstrations outside the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago were a media spectacle that is well-captured here.
Movie Review, April 4, 2008
The Unforeseen
Executive-produced by Robert Redford and Terrence Malick, Dunn's award-winning documentary looks at the history of Barton Springs, Gary Bradley's role in development issues, and the relationship of Austin's environmental activism to the world at large.
Movie Review, March 28, 2008
Married Life
This film's wonderful, amoral resignation makes Married Life so deliciously different from other period-set crime stories, and its terrific cast keeps thing percolating.
Movie Review, March 28, 2008
Ascending Dragon: Films of Greater China
Two new film series bebop and globe-hop
Screens, March 28, 2008
Sleepwalking
Sleepwalking might have been a terrific character study of damaged adult siblings, but instead becomes a muddled road trip toward redemption.
Movie Review, March 21, 2008
Our Story Begins
Our Story Begins brings together works from three of the author's short-story collections, along with several new tales
Books, March 21, 2008
Under the Same Moon
The film's parallel stories of a mother and son seeking each other across geographical divides is never more than one small step away from mawkishness and cliché – but as a sociological study, it’s fascinating.
Movie Review, March 21, 2008
The Matador
Daily reviews and interviews
Screens, March 14, 2008
Texas Shorts
Daily reviews and interviews
Screens, March 14, 2008
Reel Shorts 1
Daily reviews and interviews
Screens, March 14, 2008
Writ Writer
Daily reviews and interviews
Screens, March 14, 2008
Documentaries and the Cult of Personality
How documentarians pick a winner
Screens, March 12, 2008
The Band's Visit
A lost band of Egyptian musicians from a police orchestra find refuge with some Israeli townspeople.
Movie Review, March 7, 2008
Outsider Art
Music on the margins
Screens, March 7, 2008
The Bank Job
When a gang of thieves break into some London safe-deposit boxes, they enter a world of police corruption, financial malfeasance, sexual degeneracy, political conspiracy, murder, torture, and upper-class salaciousness.
Movie Review, March 7, 2008
Nathan and David and 'Goliath'
After years of making shorts, the Zellner Brothers go big
Screens, March 7, 2008
The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
The Thing About Life is an acknowledgement of the inevitability of bodily decline dressed up in elaborate literary garments
Books, Feb. 29, 2008
Eugene the Destroyer
His comedy kills, and now he's storming the SXSW Web Awards
Screens, Feb. 29, 2008
Penelope
Christina Ricci and James McAvoy star in this modern-day fairy tale about a girl who's cursed with a pig's snout for a nose but must find true love before the curse can be removed.
Movie Review, Feb. 29, 2008
Semi-Pro
If basketball must be mocked, it deserves to be mocked well, and unfortunately, Will Ferrell's Semi-Pro isn’t up to the challenge.
