It’s very long and very bleak, but quite well done for this kind of thing — not too mawkish, doesn’t hit the notes too hard.   Kingsley is excellent.   (1/3/06)

I’d never seen it all the way through before.   I’d expected to feel kind of “eh” about it, but I like Peter Riegert’s dry delivery more and more, and I really liked Boon and …

Heeeeee hee hee.   Not every joke works, but enough of them do, and Tim Robbins’s hair alone is worth the price of the ticket.   High-larious.   The best part is watching Paul Rudd …

I’d read enough sterling reviews that I half expected to be disappointed, or think it was gimmicky, but it’s really good, and Paul Giamatti has deserved this kind of star turn for a while now. …

Just completely and irredeemably terrible, with the possible exception of David Alan Grier.   It’s like the worst SNL sketches in history all strung together, AND you glimpse Ed Begley Jr.’s penis, which GOOD GOD …

(Don’t ask.   It’s for work.)   Blech.   I loved the book, and the elements of the movie are not bad — except for Penelope Cruz, who just is not an actress — but …

Of all the emails I received about last week’s entry, the most disappointed ones came from people I know in real life — people, in other words, who know exactly what I waste my time …

It’s Oscar season again, and just like every year, I’ve seen maybe two of the movies in contention and can “look forward to” forcing myself to watch one film per day every day until the …

Marlon Brando’s Netflix Queue
Alive
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Big
Big Night
The Breakfast Club
Chicken Run
Children of the Corn
Chocolat
Cool Hand Luke
Dinner Along The Amazon
Duck Soup
Eating Raoul
Fat Man and Little Boy
Freaks
Hamburger Hill
Heavy Metal
Home Fries
The Hunger
I Am The Cheese
James and the …

Mr. Sobell turned in a recap of a Miami Vice episode recently, and as I edited it, I went in my mind back to that wonderful time in our culture when Don Johnson went sprinting …