I suppose it’s inevitable that this film be compared to 2006’s Stranger Than Fiction, but it’s really not the same kind of beast.  It’s true that the central conceit of both is the same: a fictional creation becomes self-aware, taking on a life of its own, but that’s where the similarities end.  Fiction is at [...]

Didn’t John Carpenter do this with James Woods and one of those Baldwin brothers?  (Oh yeah … that was with vampires.)

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Man Push Cart is definitely a Movie That’s Good for You: it shows us a slice of city life that we know is there, but often do not know much about.  Further, in many cases, we don’t want to know about it, because our lives of convenience and ease are built upon people like Ahmad [...]

Since he took over the Batman franchise, and helped make it humorless and dull, I haven’t had much use for Christian Bale.  I know there are people who disagree with me.  Honorable people.  People I like.  And respect.  (Are you listening, Bill?)  But, increasingly, I’ve found nothing to like about the guy.  Now, he’s taken [...]

My wife — God bless her — often watches films doing something else: mayber with quilting in her lap, or writing poetry, or journaling.  I can’t do that and give a movie the attention I think it deserves.  She attributes this to some sort of (imagined, of course) female superiority, like men are linear thinkers [...]