PRODUCER: How are you getting along with the locals? DIRECTOR: Like dykes and dogs. Alright fine I love David Mamet. This is a cynical film about making a movie in a small town. And it’s also an old fashioned romantic comedy. Alec Baldwin sleazes around town and Sarah Jessica Parker is the needy emotional vacuum [...]
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State and Main: Movie Review
Posted in movie review, tagged david mamet, movies, screenwriting, state and main, writing on April 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Hot Tub Time Machine: Men on the verge of a nervous breakdown
Posted in movie review, tagged craig robinson, john cusack, movie review, rob corddry on March 26, 2010 | 4 Comments »
How is this better than The Hangover? Rob Corddry’s hilarious alcoholism and mania is used right away to drive the film. (Go UMASS!) I felt like I was back at 88 Pelham Road (the dawg pound, home of my UMASS friends)- don’t go on the trampoline with your forty and all those mushrooms! The Hangover, [...]
Sherlock Holmes: Movie Review
Posted in movie review, tagged guy ritchie, jude law, movie review, robert downey jr., sherlock holmes on March 10, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I went to the Cabot Cinema in downtown Beverly for this movie with my wonderful neighbors. Any film watched there is improved by the handmade chocolates, mulled cider, and tuxedoed magician playing piano in the lobby. Long, fun, and silly this is Holmes as Indiana Jones, lacking in depth but making up for it in [...]
Herb and Dorothy: Movie Review
Posted in movie review, tagged art, museums, herb vogel, dorothy vogel, herb and dorothy, documentary on February 14, 2010 | 4 Comments »
This lighthearted documentary by Megumi Sasaki is appropriate for today: it is about a Museum Club for two that has lasted for 45 years. Herb was a high school drop out and wannabe artist/postal worker. Dorothy had moved from Elmira to the big city and got a job at the Brooklyn Heights branch of BPL. [...]
Julie and Julia: Movie Review
Posted in movie review, tagged cookbooks, cooking, nora ephron on November 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Yes, I know this movie came out what feels like years ago: the content is 1950s and 2002, the concept in very Ephron eighties. Poor little Amy Adams sounds like she’s doing a Meg Ryan impersonation the whole time. But I like waiting until movies play at my neighborhood theater where I can get hot [...]
Roxanne by Steve Martin
Posted in movie review, tagged daryl hannah, procrastination, romantic comedy, steve martin on November 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Instead of watching the New York teams fail miserably, I watched this fantastic romantic comedy courtesy of Mr. Steve Martin. If you haven’t seen it lately, you really should. Sweet, funny, intelligent, it has a sunny small town California setting without meanness but with excellent physical comedy. It’s magical and hopeful and the conceit, based [...]
Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice
Posted in movie review, tagged audiotour, dating, dogs, mfa, museum, museum club, museums and art, venice on August 6, 2009 | 4 Comments »
“Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice,” on view in the Gund Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Mar 15-Aug 16, 2009. I sprung for the audiotour and it made the exhibition for me- especially the sassy Italian clothing historian. With her guidance, the details on these velvety scenes made social historical sense. I also very [...]
The Hangover: Movie Review
Posted in movie review, tagged dating, fear and loathing in las vegas, movie review, the hangover on July 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The musical cues in this film are amazing- they grabbed me by the neck and rubbed my face in my pleasurable addictions. When the bachelor party goes up on the roof, dressed to party and taking their first drinks, the lights of the city in front of them, I felt that familiar buzz of potential [...]
You treat me badly, I love you madly: Disney, Cinderella and Selena Gomez
Posted in movie review, tagged addiction, another cinderella story, fame, greedy, perversion, racist, sexist on July 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Miranda made me watch this movie yesterday. Another Cinderella Story on DVD and BLU-RAY It was excruciating. But I loved hearing her explain how she feels when she watches romantic comedies like this: it’s her drug of choice. I get that.
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