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Michael Winterbottom‘s The Look of Love, which I saw last night, was/is an almost entirely flat thing to sit through and is enlivened only by Steve Coogan‘s droll (if one-note) performance as British adult magazine and sex-biz entrepeneur Paul Raymond. An impressive recreation of ’60s and ’70s styles and mores, it’s a film that basically … Read more

In a 12.27 N.Y. Times interview with Zero Dark Thirty director Kathryn Bigelow, Brooks Barnes writes that Bigelow and ZD30 screenwriter-producer Mark Boal “have succeeded — perhaps a bit too well — in renewing a conversation about America’s use of torture to fight terrorism.” But Bigelow “was not particularly keen to discuss torture over lunch, … Read more

To recap a 6.8 riff about Alan Spencer‘s Bullet In The Face, an absurdly ultra-violent IFC TV series…in quotes. Deadline‘s Ray Richmond wrote that the first three episodes are “uproarious and twisted [and] rife with cinematic-level violence and wildly politically incorrect imagery. “This] is the kind of stuff that may have spooked IFC into turning … Read more

Here’s the first teaser for Alan Spencer‘s Bullet In The Face, an absurdly ultra-violent IFC TV series…in quotes. Deadline‘s Ray Richmond reports that the first three screened episodes “show it to be uproarious and twisted [and] rife with cinematic-level violence and wildly politically incorrect imagery. “This] is the kind of stuff that may have spooked … Read more

A friend writes: “The Butter script was number three on the Black List and was one of the funniest scripts I’ve read in years. If the movie comes even close to the script, it will be this year’s Little Miss Sunshine. “Plot is the story of a young black girl who doesn’t like white people … Read more

It’s not that Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell flirted with witchcraft. A mildly creepy thing to admit, sure, but at least she was honest in doing so on Politically Incorrect in 1999. The problem is that O’Donnell explained it by saying that she “dabbled into witchcraft.” That’s a disqualifier right there. What else doesn’t she … Read more

“Christina Hendricks thinks all the talk about her body is a little embarrassing,” writes New York‘s Amy Larocca. “‘It kind of hurt my feelings at first,” the Mad Men star remarks. ‘Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous, you get really self-conscious. I was working my butt off on the show, and … Read more

Yesterday afternoon L.A. Times/Notes on a Season columnist Pete Hammond took me to task for suggesting that the Academy might want to backhand Precious costar Mo’Nique for having said on her BET talk show that (a) she doesn’t understand why she needs to roll up her sleeves and campaign for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar … Read more

“A filthy-rich fantasy for these cash-strapped times, Beverly Hills Chihuahua features the voices of Drew Barrymore and much of the industry’s top Latino talent in a live-action talking-dog lark that should please young pups. At the same time, it peddles tacky stereotypes in thick Hispanic accents, effectively ceding whatever dignity the breed regained since the … Read more

I’ll never forget the thoughts and feelings that were coursing through my system seven years ago today, starting a little after 9:30 am as I stood inside Bay Bloor Radio, located in the basement of Toronto’s Manulife Center, and watched the unfolding horror on big-screen projection. I’ll also never forget my astonished reaction on Wednesday, … Read more