Also by Ray Pride
In the Love for Mood
A case of too much of a so-so thing, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a fatal mismatch of sensibilities, orchestrated by a master of complete control, David Fincher, with a poet of the passive, screenwriter Eric Roth
(2008-12-23)
Tip of the Week
"The world doesn’t give a shit about me. I'm here. I'm really here." I don't know all the implications that can be wrought from this great line in "The Wrestler," an original script by Robert D. Siegel, a former editor of The Onion. But self-pity is never part of it
(2008-12-23)
Why So Serious?
Greater love hath no movie reviewer than for his or her year-end listmaking. Listen to the bite-sized litanies zipping across the internet and you'd be convinced the best movie you can see this holiday season would be "Slumdog Millionaire," with its essentially despairing content—as in Dickens, children will be well and truly endangered—ennobled and made shiny-good by bright, bold Danny Boyle adrenaline. But tragedy for tragedy's sake is on the front burner. It's nothing new, releasing dead-serious pictures at the dead of Christmas
(2008-12-16)
You Feel Lucky, Hmong?
Holy Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award! "Grand Torino" is a dark comedy, an engaged anecdote about class and race, a stripped-down example of palooka art, and Clint Eastwood, at 78, has made a modest yet almost radical entertainment. It's a gleeful astonishment
(2008-12-16)
(2008-12-16)
Tip of the Week
(2008-12-09)
You are a Crook
(2008-12-09)
Tip of the Week
(2008-12-02)
Tip of the Week
(2008-11-24)
Where the Hearth Is
(2008-11-18)
Tip of the Week
(2008-11-18)
Tip of the Week
(2008-11-11)
