As some critics discovered recently, most notably the two Davids (Edelstein and Denby) but also Keith Uhlich over at the House Next Door, writing reviews can sometimes be a risky enterprise. It’s a testament to the Dark Knight hype machine that there were insults and even death threats from people who hadn’t even seen the [...]

The Rebel Scum’s video for, Bak Datang, their first Malay single, is finally out on YouTube. I remember being invited to the shoot, sometime last year, but I had to decline because I was working on a pitch. (And the shoot was scheduled on a Sunday afternoon. Yeah, what the fuck, right?) Well, too bad. Otherwise I could’ve [...]

Ah. The hat that first gets tossed out of the truck. Then the man. We see the man’s shadow on the car as he puts on his hat, revealing his immediately recognizable profile. Then the camera swivels around like it does so much in this movie, we see the man’s back…and then finally, his face [...]

I haven’t written a review of Iron Man here yet. It’s partly because I already wrote one, partly because everyone else already seemed to have said their bit (and gotten responses), but mostly because I didn’t really think I could add anything different to the discourse. Good thing there’s such a thing as commenters. Some background for [...]

READ THE ENTIRE ENTRY BEFORE WATCHING! Another fautless step in The Dark Knight promotional campaign, there. Ledger is amazing in the hints of his character shown here, Bale looks even more comfortable in his role, Gylenhaal should be a massive step up from Holmes, Caine is suitable comic relief but Eckhart looks like he might steal the [...]

This post is slightly useless as a guide for Dutch people, I suppose, since they can read my reviews in Dutch on Filmtotaal. For me, though, it’s a way of finally writing something in English about all these movies. After the jump, reviews of Margot at the Wedding Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead Naissance des Pieuvres/Water [...]

I never quite know how to start a post about a movie I get to late. I don’t mean classics - I like discussing classics because it frees me from saying the obvious, and allows me to reflect purely on my own reaction, and the small things that stick out to me. But movies that [...]

… a post on PTA’s grand opus. Tomorrow. I think it’ll be good to let my brain process the images and sounds - God, the sounds! - in dreams tonight before I even try to write anything. Let things gel a little. Also/mostly I’m too tired and overwhelmed/confused to make any kind of sense right [...]

The Coen series finally came to a conclusion yesterday with my second viewing of No Country For Old Men. And well… there is something I feel I should confess: I try mighty hard to come across as determined and opinionated and right, but the truth is I’m someone very prone to doubting her own [...]

Shoot ‘em up Is exaggeration inherently funny? Your answer to that question probably determines in large part whether Shoot ‘em up, in which Clive Owen literally shoots over a hundred ‘them’s up, will work for you. Me? Exaggeration is one of my favorite tricks, and I had fun with the movie.It did become rather repetitive in [...]