Catch-Up

Well, despite my best intentions, this blog hasn't had a proper review-link update in two weeks. And I've got no excuse, except to say that I've been crazy busy writing.

Anyway, of this latest batch of critiques, particular attention should be paid to The Wrestler, Tokyo Sonata and, um, not The Secret Life of Bees. Because it's just such a brutal, brutal film.

Now Playing:

Body of Lies (Slant magazine)

City of Ember (Slant magazine)

Beverly Hills Chihuahua (Slant magazine)

RocknRolla (Slant magazine)

The Express (Slant magazine)

The Pleasure of Being Robbed (Slant magazine)

Coming Soon:

The Secret Life of Bees (Slant magazine)

NYFF:

The Wrestler (Slant magazine)

Tokyo Sonata (Slant magazine)

DVD:

Le Doulos - Criterion Collection (Slant magazine)

Le Deuxième Souffle - Criterion Collection (Slant magazine)

Comments

[rob]

It's okay -- we forgive you.

Glad to see Aronofsky's "The Wrestler" getting such good reception; once I saw your take on it, I knew that I'd nothing to fear. Already I suspect some Best Actor attention for our leading man. FYI, if you recall the female character of "the pharmacist" in the film, that's a fellow HS graduate of mine.

[Nick]

I remember a male musclehead who acts as Rourke's illegal "pharmacist," but I don't recall a woman playing any such character. My memory is, it seems, overloaded with film info at the present moment.

Rourke will definitely get an Oscar nod. Given the current lack of competition, he might easily win one too...