My Best Friend's Girl - Review

Author: amanda
Date: 03/29/2010

"The Ugly Truth" about "My Best Friend's Wedding" with BONUS! tips on how to lose a girl in ten ways.

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The Ugly Truth - Review

Author: amanda
Date: 03/29/2010

"The Wedding Planner" meets "Someone Like You" in PG-rated "Superbad".

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War Inc. - Review

Author: amanda
Date: 03/29/2010

War, Inc.
c/o Jason Bourne
1 Wal-Mart Place
"Grosse Point Blank", Anyjackistan
12345 United States Middle-East Territories

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Duplicity - Review

Author: amanda
Date: 03/15/2010

Runaway Bride meets Mission: Impossible II
or
Oceans Eleven for two.

-amanda

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Beer Wars - Review

Author: amanda
Date: 03/15/2010

Every quirky documentary you've seen about someone's passion, but this one is about beer.

-amanda

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Pandorum - Movie Review

Author: amanda
Date: 02/22/2010

Review in 10 words or less:

"Event Horizon" and "The Time Machine" in "The Abyss"

-amanda

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Armond White doesn't get it

Author: richard
Date: 02/22/2010

Read his review of Shutter Island here

My response to Armond:

Mr. White; I'm going to ask you a question. What yarns of narrative gold have you spun for the canon of contemporary film history and discourse (besides berating a brilliant filmmaker behind your safe artifice of failed wit and snobbery) to justify the right to call Scorsese a hack?

Have you gone bat shit?

You represent all the characteristics that I loathe about critics, which is a function in society that is occasionally useless (Exhibit A: this review. Exhibit B: you).

Does Mr. White seriously get paid to write this bovine shit? Marinade in that rhetoric for a bit, Mr. White, and get back to me ...

1. The Departed deserved its accolades. Every film you see today is relatively "unoriginal", you should get used to that, or you might get a seizure. 2. Gangs of New York: overambitious, overlong, exasperating, frustrating and absolutely brilliant (do you even remember Daniel Day Lewis' performance in that film?) It wasn't perfect, but its ambition superseded its flaws, by a wide chasm of personal certainty. 3. The Aviator was a great period spectacle ... a sprawling biopic, not purposeless by any means.

The Aviator is purposeless? Did you write that statement while having an aneurysm? DiCaprio is a versatile actor (it's hard to forgive him for Titanic, sure, but ... ). You clearly have an Anti-Leo Bias (which likely predisposed you to snipe at all the genre conventions you espied in Shutter Isle's preview before you even walked into the actual film itself). I haven't seen DiCaprio this emotive and haunted since Basketball Diaries ... stop persecuting him because he took a Titanic turn for the mainstream (years ago) and let the guy act ...

In fact, I should use your "negative" film reviews as a barometer to what is actually worth watching. "Oh, White didn't like it? Okay I'll watch it."

Do you want to make a film that corrects all the alleged/trite flaws that you disapprove of in Shutter Island? Perhaps even one as great as Goodfellas or Casino or Taxi Driver? OK ... stop wasting our time by berating Scorsese and start making films yourself. Oh ... you don't want to? That's not your job? Why? 'Cause you're a pussy?

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-richard

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