World Trade Center
December 3rd, 2006
Our mail these days looks like Ray Pride’s, times two, and we’re trying hard to work our way through a ridiculous stack of For Your Consideration screeners before the NYFCO awards meeting next week. It’s the only explanation I have for putting on Oliver Stone’s insufferable September 11 drama. Maggie Gyllenhaal and Maria Bello act their hearts out, but it’s no use–nothing can save this crushingly sentimental turd. At least United 93 had the good sense not to milk that day for “uplift.”
World Trade Center. Oliver Stone, 2006. *
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Thank You For Smoking
February 19th, 2006
Sharp and sweet satire. Much funnier than, say, 40 Year Old Virgin, and much much smarter. It’s Fox Searchlight, played at Sundance, but if this is an indie film I’ll eat my DVD of Reservoir Dogs.
