Bright Lights After Dark’s Tom Sutpen on a lesser-known earlyish work from Paul Thomas Anderson, starring then-girlfriend Fiona Apple:
“Across the Universe” is a music video produced in connection with an immensely obvious and stupid movie of the late-nineties entitled Pleasantville (a film Anderson otherwise had nothing to do with); and if you have to call [...]
Kevin Ely and Beau Leland have crafted the kind of music-based movie I’d love to see more of at a music-based fest like SXSW.
February 28, 2008 – 2:35 pm
Tarsem finally follows-up The Cell with another big slab of eye candy.
January 2, 2008 – 12:55 pm
Thank goodness for critics who like stuff besides slow-moving artsy-fartsy films.
December 13, 2007 – 10:15 am
As it did 19 years ago, seven dramatic best picture nominees seems a bit much.
October 15, 2007 – 5:43 am
Hollywood takes credit for Al Gore’s Nobel. Plus, WB’s JESSE JAMES “strategy” seems to have the desired effect.
September 14, 2007 – 3:00 pm
You can expect one more Toronto-related segment on next week’s FilmCouch, but until then, our coverage of the 2007 Toronto Film Festival is complete. Here’s a round-up of our reviews; all were contributed by Karina, except where otherwise noted.
Across the Universe: “The tween and teen girls fueling the success of High School Musical and Hairspray, [...]
September 12, 2007 – 5:45 am
The final installment of ReelerTV in Toronto, starring Peter Bogdanovich.
September 10, 2007 – 3:48 pm
Julie Taymor’s long-awaited Beatles-fueled musical seems to have split critics neatly into two camps. There are people like Aaron Dobbs and Anne Thompson, who give Taymor’s spin art 60s pastiche an A for effort, but ultimately concede that the film could, at the very least, stand to have some rainbow-hued fat cut. Then there are [...]
August 13, 2007 – 8:39 am
It’s a psychedelic musical with political subtext, based on songs that were written half a century ago. No wonder Sony’s hedging their bets.
