Reviews
DVD - Margot at the Wedding
Noah Baumbach’s follow-up to the absurdly hilarious 2005 Oscar nominee The Squid and the Whale, Margot at the Wedding, was near the top of my most-anticipated releases going into fall of last year. The trailer was good. It looked like Nicole Kidman was trying to act again and I was looking forward to seeing Jack [...]
Movie Review: Atonement
The French coast has never looked as good as it does in Atonement. Too bad this is not a movie about the French coast; it’s a film about a little girl’s overactive imagination.
When 13 year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a series of erotic encounters between her sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley) and the maid’s university-educated son [...]
Record Review: Say Anything - “In Defense Of The Genre”
Say Anything have a reputation for being probably the most overwrought band on the emo scene - their full-length debut began with a rambling prologue from mastermind Max Bemis about exactly the kind of album he was trying to make, and everything after that was unrepentant yelping, screaming, and overdriven guitars; the protracted wait between [...]
Movie Review - The Savages
The Chicago International Film Festival wrapped up last night and the film that closed out the final night was Tamara Jenkins’ first feature-length film in roughly nine years, The Savages. Some may remember that Jenkins first got acclaim with her last film The Slums of Beverly Hills in 1998. The Savages could not [...]
An Evening with Malcolm McDowell - Chasing Chicks with Your Wang Out
Legendary English actor Malcolm McDowell was in town yesterday to premiere his new film Never Apologize. The new documentary is actually a one-man show McDowell performed last year as a dedication to filmmaker Lindsay Anderson (If…, O Lucky Man!–both starring Malcolm McDowell and both featuring punctuation in their titles). McDowell was in town for a [...]
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