October 18, 2007 – 2:31 pm
After explaining why Lionsgate declined to screen the film for critics, Armond White begins his review proper of Why Did I Get Married? on contrarian autopilot: “Most critics don’t ‘get’ Tyler Perry basically because most critics are whites who are not only clueless about Perry’s African-American culture, but unsympathetic to his particular expression.” Okay, probably. [...]
August 27, 2007 – 6:37 am
Regardless of how the venerable film critic’s negotiations with Disney shake out, the era of serious televised film analysis now seems like a distant fantasy.
Brian Lowry has a favorable review of The Simpsons Movie: “Put simply, if somebody had to make a Simpsons movie, this is pretty much what it should be — clever, irreverent, satirical and outfitted with a larger-than-22-minutes plot, capable (just barely) of sustaining a narrative roughly four times the length of a standard episode.”
Variety [...]
If you watch one video podcast about the New York movie scene this week, make sure it’s this one.
The director who brought you ‘Point Break’ has set her sites on Baghdad. Also: Sarah Polley returns to acting, and–newsflash!–Adam Sandler’s extended gay joke isn’t that funny.
