Little Fockers, the third, and hopefully final, film in the trilogy that also includes Meet The Parents and Meet The Fockers, ends with a scene that serves as a surprisingly apt metaphor for the series as a whole. Early in the film, Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) gives a speech in which he recounts some of […]
Monthly Archives: December 2010
Colin Firth and The King’s Speech
December 13, 2010 at 4:26 pm
Every Jane Austen fan remembers her first time. Reading Pride and Prejudice, that is. Still I’ll never forget the first time I saw the BBC TV mini-series of Pride and Prejudice, the 1995 Simon Langton version so perfectly executed that the film adaptation gods must have wept when they watched it. Days later, I popped […]
Blue Valentine
December 9, 2010 at 9:11 pm
If you’ve heard anything about Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine, it was probably in the context of the MPAA’s laughable decision to stick the film with the dreaded NC-17 rating (since reversed to a still-too-harsh R), or maybe you have a bearded, plaid-loving friend who keeps gushing about Grizzly Bear writing the film’s score (as a […]
Vision: From the Life of Hidegard von Bingen
December 7, 2010 at 9:06 pm
Film lovers and critics must expect to receive a certain amount of grief for their taste in movies, but there is a different kind flak awaiting the cinephile who loves a good foreign flick. Americans hate foreign things, especially foreign films. Just try asking a friend to go to a foreign film, and you will […]