A foggy day in Seattle town
This week’s Watercooler comes to you from the foggy, drizzly, beautiful city of Seattle, Washington. This photo I took of Volunteer Park is not movie related per se, but it was taken up the hill and down the street from the Harvard Exit, an old (and allegedly haunted) movie theater in [...]
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Things are a little crazy around the LiC head offices as the Thanksgiving holiday approaches, but the monkeys and I did have a chance to catch a screening of Gus Van Sant’s Milk starring Sean Penn as the first openly gay man elected to major public office in the United States on Sunday night. I [...]
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I’d like to kick off this Monday’s Watercooler with a shout out to the dude behind me during Changeling.
Noisiest. Popcorn eater. Ever.
What the hell were you digging for? Gravel? When I was a little kid, we had this massive bushel sized Valencia orange box full of Legos and I swear to god the sound of [...]
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With AFI winding down this weekend, I only caught one new release: Captain Abu Raed, Jordan’s official submission for the Best Foreign Language Oscar. I’m not sure if it was just playing in LA to qualify for the awards or if it will play elsewhere before 2009.
Winner of the World Cinema Audience award at Sundance [...]
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Welcome to another Watercooler boys and girls. If you’ve been keeping up with LiC at all the last few days, you already know how I spent my weekend. I’ll have a rundown of AFI Day 3 sometime today.
In the mean time, I need you to fill me in on what’s happening in the rest of [...]
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Hey everybody. It’s time for another Monday Watercooler where you get to talk about what movies you’ve managed to see lately or whatever else is on your mind moviewise.
First up for me is Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York. I don’t think you can really do justice to a movie like this after just one viewing, [...]
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Sally Hawkins and Alexis Zegerman in Happy-Go-Lucky
It was kind of an interesting if not altogether successful movie-going weekend at LiC.
First up was Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky, a hard to categorize little number starring Sally Hawkins as Poppy, an eternally and somewhat irrationally optimistic London schoolteacher. When her bicycle is stolen, she’s forced into driving lessons with [...]
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I’m afraid I don’t have much to contribute to this week’s Monday Watercooler. I spent a good part of the weekend getting caught up on writing or procrastinating getting caught up on writing. Sadly, I don’t have much that’s ready to show for a weekend’s worth of effort. The Ballast review below is about the [...]
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Michael Cera and Kat Dennings in Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
Happy Monday everyone and welcome to LiC’s weekly look at how you the beloved reader spent your movie weekend. Consider it an open thread with a movie-centric focus. Talk about what you’ve seen lately or anything else that’s on your mind. You can even talk [...]
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I guess you have to hand it to Spike Lee. He had a problem with the fact that Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers overlooked the role played by African-American soldiers in World War II and, after complaining about it, he put his money where his mouth with his own World War II film. The [...]
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I crammed all my movies into Sunday evening and it’s late and I’m tired so I’m going to keep my half of this short. Let’s just say It wasn’t exactly a movie going weekend for the record books, but it could’ve been a lot worse.
First up was Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear and Téa Leoni in [...]
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The fall season officially got underway this weekend as Joel and Ethan Coen scored bragging rights with the #1 film at the box office. Burn After Reading’s estimated $19.4 million haul is the biggest opening ever for the Oscar winning brothers.
A late summer cold and the lack of anything else compelling in theaters conspired to [...]
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Summer Bishil in Alan Ball’s Towelhead
The worst box office weekend in 7 years, got off to a shaky start here at LiC. Though things rallied on Saturday, let’s start off this week’s Watercooler with the bad news: an early screening of screenwriter Alan (American Beauty, HBO’s Six Feet Under) Ball’s directorial debut.
Take a moldy dog turd [...]
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The extended weekend has been a fairly quiet one around the LiC head offices. There just isn’t a lot in theaters I haven’t already seen. Nevertheless, I just got back from the Czech film I Served the King of England. Famed Czech New Wave director Jirí Menzel (Closely Watched Trains) returns to the screen for [...]
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For the first time in a long time I stayed away from the movie theaters this weekend. There were a few things that looked promising, but nothing that felt like a must-see.
I guess we all need a break once in a while.
So, for my part this will be the shortest Watercooler ever, but surely the [...]
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