Dear Scarlett Johansson,
Back in February during the Democratic primary, you called my answering machine and you asked me to vote for your candidate Barack Obama in that beautiful, sexy voice of yours. Though I admit I saved that recording for months and I’d play it back from time to time on cold dark nights, no [...]
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Michael J. Smith Sr. in Ballast
Ready or not, it’s officially awards season with the IFP announcing its nominees for the 18th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards (formerly known as the Gotham Awards).
Several films that might be familiar to you if you’ve been reading LiC lately have been showered with a little early awards loving and [...]
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Click image for MovieFone’s Spirit trailer
Maybe it’s because Frank Miller’s adaptation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit has been getting clobbered by nerd-kind since the unwashed masses were given a taste of it at Comic-Yawn last summer, but I’m strangely attracted to it. Call me contrarian or just call me a sucker.
For the record, I liked Miller’s own [...]
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Javier Bardem and Scarlett Johansson in Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Like a fleeting love affair in a beautiful foreign country, Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona is probably best appreciated for what it is rather than analyzed for what it means. It’s a bit of a trifle to be sure, but a supremely engaging and entertaining one. More [...]
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It’s late so I’ll spare you the story of the drunk guy form Michigan at the Arclight bar who tried to share the secret of The Secret with me (”I’m not gay but you have amazing, mystical green eyes.” Wah??!) and I’ll pass up the trailers to get right to the weekend’s movies.
LiC’s first rule [...]
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Penelope Cruz is neither Vicky nor Cristina in Vicky Cristina Barcelona
You can almost feel summer winding down and the fall movie season arriving, can’t you? Here’s what’s on tap this weekend:
Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Woody Allen’s tale of two American women, the sensible one (Rebecca Hall) and the adventurous one (Scarlett Johansson), who travel to Barcelona [...]
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