Duplicity‘s lukewarm box office showing doesn’t have anything to do with her age. By Aymar Jean Christian I saw Duplicity this weekend, and, like everyone else, I liked it. It’s a smart and stylish corporate caper, and a great vehicle for Julia Roberts. She chose her comeback well. But the stage is set for a [...]
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(500) Days of Summer: Review
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on March 27th, 2009
Review of (500) Days of Summer.
‘Tokyo!’ Review
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on March 13th, 2009
Kafka in Japan Tokyo! is easily the weirdest movie in the recent trend of omnibus films. (Grade: C) By Aymar Jean Christian Why the sudden interest in shorts and cities? This year’s Oscar-nominated short films have made over $600,000 in just about a month, which is an incredibly large amount of cash for a genre [...]
How Not to Fail a TV Show
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on March 12th, 2009
TV: How Not to Fail a TV Show By Aymar Jean Christian You may not know we lost an important show this past week: The L Word. The series was among the most inconsistent on television. Each season would have a new focus and tone; characters would completely change personalities; wardrobes would magically improve. Still, [...]
Review: ‘Explicit Ills’
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on March 11th, 2009
Explicitly Relevant: Explicit Ills Mark Webber’s slice-of-life film, despite its rough edges, is an engaging take on contemporary issues such as gentrification and health care.(Grade: B+) By Aymar Jean Christian If Watchmen is any indication, it’s really hard to create a film that’s relevant 20 or 30 years after its source material’s release. This [...]
Holy Box Office!
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on March 9th, 2009
Madea Goes to Jail and Taken are raking it in! Madea has made $76 million and Taken nearly $200 million since being released. Those are crazy numbers for what are essentially small blockbusters – Madea catering to a black audience and Taken a French-directed film with a British star. Can I also mention that both [...]
The Importance of Being Pretty
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on March 3rd, 2009
UPDATE (7/30): EW‘s Ausiello now confirms an extensive Betty makeover is being tested among audiences by ABC! A month after I wrote this original piece, Silvio Horta, the brains behind Betty, suggested these changes would be on the way. UPDATE 2: Ugly Betty moving to Fridays, after ABC flirted with canceling it. If you care [...]
