Re There Will Be Blood, from Matthew Yglesias: This is totally awesome. Don’t listen to the haters. I realized maybe fifteen minutes into the movie that a sort of had to pee and there were over two hours left and I didn’t mind at all because the movie’s so utterly great. Daniel Day-Lewis is great. ... read more »

Benjamin Schwarz, literary editor of the Atlantic, apropos of just about nothing at all, as far as I can determine, bursts into joyous praise of Cary Grant here. Well, I like Cary as much as the next galoot, but I can’t help noticing that Bennie, in all his enthusiasm, passes over a few things, LIKE ... read more »

Over at Jabberwock, Jai Arjun Singh dismembers a film you’re quite unlikely to see, Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal.

Over at Slate, Daphne Merkin heart Californication star David Duchovny. In fact, Daphne heart David so much that she writes to him like this: “Maybe it’s the way you seem to be both the ultimate feminist and the ultimate sexist all at once: someone who understands women’s plight—their need to inflate their breasts, denude themselves ... read more »

Kim Masters, Slate’s assassin for hire, who clearly does not know the meaning of the words “You’ll never have lunch in this town again,” pisses all over Jerry Seinfeld’s major new pic, Bee Movie. Jerry, it seems, is a “rich, arrogant guy,” while producer Jeffrey Katzenberg tends to get engaged in compulsive suckup to megalomaniac ... read more »

OK, Bob was not widely known as a film star, but a dead celebrity is a dead celebrity, right? Besides, there’s plenty of trés hip Bob Goulet shit on the web. Go here for a site that lets you pay your respects to Sir Lancelot. There are some nice video clips of Bob here, although ... read more »

“Well, you know, we only go round once in this life.”“If only I could be sure of that.” And so it goes with Adrian Monk, some-time detective and full-time obsessive-compulsive, prince of the hand-washers and king of the hypochondriacs. Because what hope do we have in this germ-laden, four-dimensional ball (or is it a torus?) ... read more »

Well, balls for a week, at least. George Packer slaps around Brian De Palma’s Redacted, which pretty much claims that the U.S. is the Great Satan.[1] George also has a nice riff on Artie Schlesinger’s diaries, not terribly film-related, although at one point Art tried his hand as a movie reviewer for the pretty much ... read more »

George Clooney, when he was happy Over at Slate, Kim Masters has a pretty heavy rap on the various reasons why George Clooney’s new biohazard pic, Michael Clayton, only turned in $10 mil at the box office. Frankly, I blush to read that piece, because, well, I may be talking out of school here, but ... read more »

If you’re Troy Patterson of Slate magazine, well, you have it rough. It’s your job to uphold the banner of civilization amidst the vast effluvium of bad taste that is popular culture in America today. As an example, just last night Troy was forced to watch, and critique, A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila. ... read more »