Review: Blood Into Wine

Wine culture can seem particularly daunting to the uninitiated. The sipping, the swirling, the swishing, the spitting, all practices of an art that, for those who are used to pressing their lips to a glass for the sole purpose of having a drink for the sake of a drink, has a such an apparent high …

Golden Globes Wrap-Up

So, ‘Avatar’ takes Best Director and Best Picture at the Golden Globes and the world splits into half. Last night’s Golden Globes presentation was an excellent show, with host Ricky Gervais lampooning everything from Mel Gibon’s alcoholism, to the drama in the world of Late Night NBC. Overall though, I think it was a great …

Short Film: “Obvious Child”

A new film from Lonely Reviewer friends Anna Bean and Gillian Robespierre has just debuted on-line and we wanted to let you know ’cause it’s really good.  It stars Jenny Slate. (You may have seen her debut last week on ‘Saturday Night Live.’)  It’s a touching comedy about abortion and relationships.  I know the phrase …

Remake This: Body Snatchers

Abel Ferrara took on Jack Finney’s horror/sci-fi classic of aliens out to get the human race with 1993’s “Body Snatchers.”  While the story is effectively told and is a good tale, sadly it is inevitably compared to the two previous “Body Snatchers” movies which, for my money, are some of the best films of their …

John Hughes- Penpal

It’s odd- I’ve been thinking about John Hughes’ death a lot more than I thought I would’ve.  Maybe it’s because he quit making movies on his terms, and for his own reasons that he didn’t feel like justifying to the world.  Maybe it’s because if you look at a montage of his movies, you quickly …