January 2010 Films Aim to Revive Struggling Actors' Careers
January is notoriously a slow month for movies. But this year, from what I've seen of previews, it looks like Hollywood's throwing in the towel for the entire month.
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Up In the Air Leaves You Down in the Dumps
Once again, American film critics are slavering over the latest George Clooney movie. Some have already proclaimed, Up In the Air is the frontrunner for being named film of the year.
Hollywood Politics: Up in the Air
Opposition to the war saturates the atmosphere of many films, but it's not explicit. The focus is on the personal price that's paid -- as if the war were a condition of nature, like earthquakes.
What Tiger Woods Can Learn From George Clooney: Why Marry and Have Kids?
Some marriages please parents. Others to fit in. Others, to handle an unplanned pregnancy. As reason number seven, here is a good summary of one of the things that can lead to a long term happy marriage.
HuffPost Weekend Box Office Review: Princess and the Frog Puts Disney 2D Animation on Top
When you consider the publicity that this film received for its 'groundbreaking' African American characters, I'm pretty sure Disney was hoping for a bigger opening for The Princess and the Frog.
Stealth Politics
Of course movies have long been purveyors of political views. But there's a second, subtler brand of politics in films that peddle their presumptions so subtly you barely notice.
Selling Metro: Why It Doesn't Hurt to Ask, and Lessons from Cirque du Soleil
Maybe it's time Metro took a look at Cirque's merchandizing and marketing playbook, and maybe it's time Metro asked the business community whether it wants to buy naming rights.
A Holiday Focus on Inspirational Musician Tim Janis
Janis' music has been widely reported by many throughout the world to have healing qualities. Played in dozens of hospitals with the children and adults in cancer wards, patients and families swear to witnessing various miracles.
The Men Who Stare At Goats: Would You Believe the Book Is Better Than the Movie?
Ronson's light touch may work better on the written page because it's harder to believe the veracity of source material when it's in the context of a George Clooney movie.
Walter Kirn Is Feeling Up in the Air
Up in the Air is based on a Walter Kirn novel. As I sit down to dinner with him, Kirn has the slightly wide-eyed look of someone who realizes that the old lottery ticket he's been carrying around in his wallet is a jackpot winner.
HuffPost Weekend Box Office in Review: Blind Side Finally Takes the Top Spot
Ninja Assassin dropped on account of being terrible and shockingly boring for the first half of the picture. It's a bunch of ninjas trying to kill each other and James McTeigue found a way to make that unexciting and tedious.
Why Do We Care About Tiger Woods?
Once we've conflated celebrity with power, it's inevitable that we will see a celebrity's errors as a betrayal. We made him famous, we imputed power to him, and then he took advantage of it.
American Malaise: Up In the Air
We talked to director Jason Reitman, stars Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick, and author Walter Kirn about their timely Up in the Air, a beautiful film about job loss and human connection.
HuffPost Review: Up in the Air
Up in the Air is not revolutionary and its thesis, however insightful, is not one-of-a-kind. But it is the kind of thing we used to take for granted in Hollywood. It is well-written and sharply observational.
Anderson's Latest Is For Devout Followers Only
Are there really fans out there waiting for the latest Wes Anderson film? And are there people clamoring for the mere sound of George Clooney's voice?...
Postcards From the Fun-Employed, Part Deux
I started writing a novel called "Female Kryptonite." It was about Jim - a never married, successful (in business and with the ladies), 40-something who starts to realize he's lonely.
Movie Review: Up In The Air Soars
I've been touting Up in the Air as the year's best film since I saw it in Toronto in September -- and I still haven't seen anything that has changed my mind.
Goats -- The Silence Grows Louder By The Day
It has been 12 days now since I was given the opportunity to publicly question why my central role in unearthing the remarkable true story behind The Men Who Stare at Goats was completely erased.
Thanksgiving Weekend Box Office Review: Sandra Bullock Blind Sides New Moon
Please, let's not turn this film's success into a The Blind Side vs. Precious debate, with alleged implications for Barack Obama and/or Sarah Palin in the next election cycle. Don't be that idiot.
How My Involvement with The Men Who Stare at Goats Was Erased Entirely
Though Men Who Stare at Goats author Jon Ronson himself has acknowledged my involvement in unearthing the book's extraordinary story, I have received neither credit nor recompense.
ReThink Review: The Men Who Stare at Goats -- the First Earth Battalion Wants You!
Simultaneously a dark, sometimes surreal examination of the US military's foray into psychic warfare, and a comedy with some nuggets of alleged truth.
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