The Amazing Spider-Man.

08Jul12

Anthony Lane has a great line in his review of The Amazing Spider-Man which summarises my feelings about the film quite succinctly. He notes a wonderfully fun scene early on in which Parker hasn’t quite perfected his powers yet. In a New York subway carriage that proves to be the cause of some calamitous consequences, a girl’s top […]

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Tags: andrew garfield, anthony lane, batman, emma stone, marc webb, martin sheen, new yorker, spiderman

The Dictator.

26May12

Reviewing The Dictator in the New Yorker, David Denby writes that if Sacha Baron Cohen could only fine-tune his craft he could be the Groucho Marx of our time. If we were to judge him on the basis of Borat and Brüno, that daring duo of mockumentaries which duped people into thinking they were talking to someone as bigoted, […]

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Tags: borat, bruno, david denby, new yorker, sacha baron cohen, the dictator

Crazy Kael.

16Dec11

I began and finished A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael today. It’s a nice little book, both easygoing and short whilst retaining a decent amount of insight. It’s written in transcript form based on an interview with Kael by a close friend – another, younger critic whose first form of contact with her was a letter […]

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Tags: a clockwork orange, boogie nights, eyes wide shut, full metal jacket, magnolia, midnight in paris, new yorker, paul thomas anderson, pauline kael, pretty woman, sex and the city, sopranos, stanley kubrick, the departed, there will be blood, west wing