Over at Slate, Timothy Noah, who’s been writing about pop culture and the election, suggests that the success of the SATC movie is the result of disappointed Hillary voters drowning their sorrows.
No, seriously. He wrote that. I guess somebody had to draw this connection; I just can’t believe it wasn’t Maureen Dowd.
A while back I …
An interesting post at Hollywood Wiretap about a subject that I had been curious about but never got around to researching fully: were male critics more likely to pan the Sex and the City movie than women? I hadn’t thought so, mainly because the harshest reviews I’d read were from two female critics, Salon’s Stephanie Zacharek and the …
We don’t usually discuss movie openings in The Morning After, but then again, film adaptions of TV series don’t usually gross $55 million in their opening weekends. Clearly somebody out there saw Sex and the City, so after the jump I have a few extra (very spoilery) thoughts about the movie (which I left out of my review for said …
In this week’s print Time, I joined in the summer arts preview, which you might recognize as pretty much the summer arts preview that ran on time.com. In addition, I reviewed the Sex and the City movie, filling in for Time movie critic Richard Corliss, who was in Cannes when the review needed to close for the magazine. (Tough life.) My …
So yesterday I saw the new Sex and the City movie. I was hesitant to blog much about it, partly because I didn’t want to pre-empt my review in the print Time, partly because I was still figuring out how much information I could blab without spoiling the movie. New Line has been particularly sensitive about press spoilers, perhaps because …
That screening I mentioned having attended last week, by the way? Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. It was a non-critics’ screening, so I’m going to behave and not “review” it here. (One thing: Neal Patrick Harris + unicorn!) But I will venture a prediction. Whether you love its brand of pot humor or hate it, it will have the …
In honor of Black History Month, TIME critic Richard Corliss surveys nearly a century of cinema, and reflects on 25 defining works that broke down the walls of intolerance on the big screen
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From silent vampires to animated murders to sharks that won’t die, TIME chronicles the best from more than a century’s worth of big-screen scares
Movies robots aren’t just mindless automatons. They can often be metal marvels with their own charismatic personalities. TIME looks at cinema’s long tradition of smart silver screen machines.
Every movie fan loves a bad guy (or gal). TIME’s Richard Corliss picks cinema’s best.
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