If we take the entirely creepy 1934 carol “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” at its word, the man in red sees us when we’re sleeping and knows when we’re awake, and thus, he knows if we’ve been bad or good. What the song fails to inform, is the state of Santa’s personal behavior. Has […]
Ron Burgundy tries to hang himself in the first 15 minutes of “Anchorman 2”—and for a second, even this Anchorman fan thought that might not be a terrible idea. It’s been nine years since the brilliant “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy” began its long journey toward becoming a cult classic, and expectations for a […]
Guys! Guys! Why didn’t you tell me about this? They made a movie out of my book? Have you heard about this? Talk about crazy, right? I mean, one minute I’m dicking around in my office at Oxford—making up Elvish, for flip’s sake—and the next minute I’m in a movie theater, wearing 3D glasses, about […]
Watch the trailer for Homefront, and you won’t quite be able to tell if it’s parody or not. You’ve got Jason Statham starring, of course, as a tough guy with a history. In this case, he’s a cop who used to wear a really bad wig and go undercover with biker gangs. Statham is seen […]
“I didn’t live a lot of lies, but I did live one big one.” That’s how the new documentary from director Alex Gibney opens, with a half-confession from disgraced cycling superstar Lance Armstrong. It is a perfect first line and sets the tone for the rest of the stunning film, which chronicles Armstrong’s miraculous cancer-be-damned […]
The latest Patagonia-sponsored movie GO! A Snowboard Road Trip is gorgeous and jam-packed with big air and backcountry shred sequences shot in the American West; all set to a thoughtful, down-home, not-what-you’d-expect soundtrack (honky-tonk and hard-driving blues are a welcome relief from the endless glitch-hop and electronica so prevalent in modern snow films; seriously, if […]
Besides being a good band name, Chekhov’s Gun is the principle protecting cumulative narrative coherence: A gun introduced in the first act must go off by the end of the third. In the first act of Short Term 12, the studiously humane drama written and directed by Destin Cretton, we’re instantly introduced to a number […]
Santa is famous for doing some pretty unbelievable things. Delivering toys to all of the world’s children in one night, flying a sleigh led by magical reindeer with light-up body parts, and living comfortably with an army of tiny toy builders in the world’s northern-most and harshest climate. But conquering Martians? All Christmas spirit aside, […]
Perhaps some of the most iconic images of rock music aren’t even about the music, but about the fans—grainy black and white footage from the early years of the '60s; teenage girls shrieking for the Beatles as if possessed. And, in a time before Facebook “likes,” when managing a fan club meant much more than […]
The quality control folks in the Hollywood schlock factory are a meticulous bunch: They know their craft, they execute it with pragmatism, and for all they lack in ambition, they make up in consistency. Every now and again, though, the schlock factory’s well-oiled mechanisms pump out the occasional defect—a film that, though decked out in […]
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