Film Review: Coco Before Chanel Fashion Icon Biopic Looks Fabulous But Hangs Kinda Funny As the title clearly indicates, the Gallic import Coco Before Chanel explores the life of fashion maven Coco Chanel before she changed her [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Oct 29, 2009 Read More
Film Review: Big Fan Obsessive Indie Comedy Explores Dark Side Of Fandom Listen to enough sports radio and you’ll get the idea that professional sports aren’t mere recreational distractions. There’re not just regional pissing contests, [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Oct 29, 2009 Read More “Wooo! Parking lot hotdogs!”
Film Review: Unmistaken Child Buddhist Quest Opens Door To Exotic World Kids these days are under a lot of pressure. There’s the pressure to excel in school, even at a young age. There’s the [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Oct 22, 2009 Read More “Can I achieve enlightenment and watch ‘Yo Gabba Gabba!’?”
Film Review: Astro Boy Japan’s Favorite Robot Kid Flies, But Doesn’t Soar, In Americanized Version It seems odd, in such a rabidly anime- and manga-literate culture—where practically every new pop-culture entry is stumbling over itself to emulate the [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Oct 22, 2009 Read More OK
Film Review: Where The Wild Things Are Fearless Fantasy Captures The Imagination As Well As The Emotion Of Being A Child Where the Wild Things Are is the first kid-oriented film to come out of Hollywood in a great while that doesn’t begin with [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Oct 15, 2009 Read More Pokémon has changed a lot in the last decade.
Film Review: Earth Days Inspirational Documentary Gives Us A History Of The Environmental Movement And Cleans Up After Itself Award-winning documentary filmmaker Robert Stone ( Radio Bikini, American Babylon, Neverland: The Rise and Fall of the Symbionese Liberation Army, Oswald’s Ghost ) [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Oct 15, 2009 Read More “Check out my wind-powered camera.”
Film Review: Zombieland Who Doesn’t Find Exploding Brains Hilarious? For whatever reason, we live in zombified times. From movies ( Dead Snow ) to video games (Left 4 Dead) to novels ( [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Oct 08, 2009 Read More “That’s what you get for insulting the memory of Flatt and Scruggs.”
Film Review: Bright Star To Paraphrase Mr. Keats’ Most Famous Line: A Thing Of Beauty Is A Joy For Fans Of “Masterpiece Theatre” Jane Campion—writer and director of The Piano— is in familiar territory with Bright Star, a lush, intimate, swoon-inducing biopic about the doomed romance [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Oct 01, 2009 Read More And now
Videonasty: The Wanderers (1979) The Wanderers (1979) The Warriors is one of my favorite films of all time. Indeed, Walter Hill’s 1979 gang classic holds such a special place in [...] Kurly Tlapoyawa \ Sep 24, 2009 Read More
Film Review: Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs Hallelujah, It’s Raining Mentos! While it can’t approach the rarified atmosphere of a Pixar film, Sony’s ambitious, 3-D, computer-animated kiddy flick Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 17, 2009 Read More “I’ve invented Peripheral Artery Disease!”
