Monday, December 14, 2009

New Releases, 15 December 2009

Beware the ides of December, for they bring cinematic awesomeness straight to your eyeballs...

THE HANGOVER
This summer's comedy sensation, just in time for Kwanzaa.  With comedian Zach Galifianakis
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2009/06/05/hangover/index.html

TAKING WOODSTOCK
Ang Lee's heartwarming glance back to the summer of love, with a top notch cast, including comedian Demitri Martin
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090826/REVIEWS/908269991

G-FORCE
Totally one-upping the last two, G-Force is a talking hamster pic with the comedic voices of Galifianakis, Arrested Development's Will Arnett and Tracy Morgan
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090722/REVIEWS/907239997

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
Not to be outdone, Quentin Tarantino put Austin Powers himself, the quasi-comedic Mike Myers, in his WWII epic
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1917595,00.html

THE HEADLESS WOMAN
Fantastic and mysterious film from Argentina.  If Yakov Smirnov was in it we could continue our current theme, but he wasn't.  Maybe for the best.  
http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/movies/19headless.html?ref=movies

THE TUDORS Season 3
Latest season of the real housewives of Tudor England
http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/item_SUnxGY5cwK62XN6QXdrfyJ

KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS
Never eat a poisonous mushroom again!  You know all those times you've been at a fancy dinner party and mistaken a shiitake for an Amanita Muscaria and everybody laughed and then the host punched you in the nuts?  It'll never happen again.
http://www.eyeweekly.com/film/onscreen/article/50596

THE OTHER MAN
Film about a man.  No, not that man.  The other one.  
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/sep/11/entertainment/et-other-man11

PSYCHO WARD
I don't know if this film is any good or not, but the review of it on Dorkgasm.com is fantastic.
http://dorkgasm.com/node/272

Have a great week, and don't forget to share several films with your loved ones!

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

New Releases, 8 December 2009

It's official, we can't go outside anymore.  So why not curl up with some movies, seven features and a tv show perhaps?

LOST Season 5
The latest season of the perpetually confusing phenomenon.  Now with more polar bears
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/01/21/DDNK15DKAG.DTL

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE
Number six, in which Harry comes to America and volunteers for the Obama campaign
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2009/07/15/harry_potter_review/index.html

JULIE & JULIA
From the hit blog to the bestselling book to the silver screen, the intertwined stories of Julia Child and Julie who cooked her food for a year.
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2009/08/24/090824crci_cinema_denby?currentPage=2

PUBLIC ENEMIES
Johnny Depp plays Dillinger in this well-reviewed crime biopic.
http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?FID=136004

WORLD'S GREATEST DAD
The latest is a weird string of critically acclaimed, little-seen Robin Williams vehicles, this one is supposed to be quite funny
http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=reviews&Id=11513

SOMERS TOWN
Understated charmer about two boys running amok in London
http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2009/09/04/somers_town_a_slice_of_life_in_an_unforgiving_london/

BEAUTIFUL LOSERS
Documentary about Shepard Fairey and his artistic cohorts in California
http://www.boston.com/movies/display?display=movie&id=12308

HOLLYWOOD JE T'AIME
A look at the underbelly of Hollywood
http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/reviews/Hollywood-Je-Taime

Have a fantastic week, stay warm and keep watching stuff!