View image This is this. You know what I mean, right? "This is this!" -- Michael Vronsky (Robert De Niro), The Deer Hunter Three little words (well, two, really) -- each, individually and collectively, with flexible meanings. Yes, the significance…
View image Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jack Black in "Margot at the Wedding." No relation. Well, OK, Leigh is married to the writer-director, but that's not to invite speculation. The logic that structures Dennis Lim's New York Times interview with…
Mark Olmstead is the father of Marla Olmstead, the young artist seen in the documentary "My Kid Could Paint That." Ebert's review is here.
Q: One of the things that's been bugging my inner biology geek about "Bee Movie" is that Jerry Seinfeld is the wrong sex to be a worker bee. All worker bees are female, and they're the only ones who would…
That's Dennis, "the second guy from the right, in the blue checked bathrobe." Do not file this post in the self-help section. (For one thing, there isn't one.) A while ago, I published a frame-grab from David Mamet's "House of…
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It's the player piano roll, the 8-track cartridge, the Apple Newton, the Microsoft Bob (or Microsoft Sidewalk) of its day -- the 1981 RCA SelectaVision Capacitance Electronic Disc! Basically, it looked like a grooved black vinyl LP in a plastic…
View image Here's a sampling of various political/ideological (and generic) readings of Joel and Ethan Coen's "No Country For Old Men." This just gets more and more fascinating to me -- probably because I would not emphasize such an approach…
View image A way of perceiving the world. Critic Richard T. Jameson writes about the Coen brothers' body of work at MSN Movies: There are hundreds of things thrillingly right with "No Country for Old Men," the new film from…
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