Joe R could use some help here, folks:

Need: a bar that’ll be showing the Islanders-Sabres playoff game next Friday night.
It’s for a Sabres fan (obviously), so on the off chance that some
Buffalo expat has …

Bonsall.
Richardson.

It does have some pacing problems, and a tendency to fall back on trite background imagery during voice-overs, but these are pretty minor complaints overall; the story itself is painstakingly assembled and chilling.   One …

Fabulous!Again with the weird hats on Rosalind Russell — was that in her studio contract or something? — but it’s so silly and catty and it zips right along.Thumbs up.(7/3/06)

Worthwhile once you get to the end, but really unfun to watch — which is partly a compliment to Gena Rowlands’s performance (un! comfortable!), partly a comment on Cassavetes movies in general (awk! ward! and! …

What a marvelous movie.Over and over again, I would start to feel a stirring of impatience with the repetition and the collaging, only to get sucked back by an image or a twist.And what splendid …

Trog is laughing right now because I had this out from Netflix for six months, no joke.But I’ve finally watched it, and…wow.You know, I’d never seen a Joan Crawford movie; I’d seen Mommie Dearest about …

Oh my crap, where to begin with this…”movie.” It has so many serious problems, I can’t even decide which one is primarily at fault, but I think it’s a “flawed in its inception” issue, because …

I saw this a bit ago, but forgot to write it up here.It was good, and yet it was annoying.The acting was good, and yet it was…annoying.I liked watching it, and yet I kind of …

Pretty good; I’d expected better reviews after the seemingly endless pre-release hype, but it’s actually quite good despite some lukewarmness in the press.It just suffers from the usual problems biopics have — too much symbolic …