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I’m curious: Are you looking forward to The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader? (more…)

Parents everywhere will soon be rushing out to theaters with their children and spending close to 50 or 60 bucks just so they can watch this movie… (more…)

A very special guest appears at about 0:49 in the new Toy Story 3 trailer.

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I’ve been reading about this film for so long, it’s great to finally see a trailer. (more…)

I met Chris Willman on a shuttle bus that was carrying film critics from a hotel to a theater in Beverly Hills for the sneak preview of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. If I recall correctly, he sat behind me, next to another writer I admire: Frederica Matthewes-Green.

I was already a Willman fan because he valiantly defended U2′s underrated album Pop in the pages of Entertainment Weekly. Since meeting him, I’ve followed his writing more closely, and I was thrilled when he posted a note on my Facebook page today to tell me that he’d posted reviews of two movies I’m eagerly anticipating: Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air and John Hillcoat’s The Road.

The news about both of them is very good.

Here are Willman’s two encouraging articles: (more…)

I’m intrigued.

I’m rather excited about this.

Anybody want to make a guess as to why I’ve watched this trailer several times?

Is there any better big screen actress working today than Juliette Binoche? I’d like to hear your idea of who you think has a better record of great performances… in great films.

Last year, she showed up in Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Flight of the Red Balloon and astonished me again. This year, it’s Oliver Assayas’ Summer Hours, which a few friends have already highly recommended to me. I can’t wait.

Fans of the Dardennes Brothers should note: Jérémie Renier is in this film as well.

You can see it in HD here.

There’s such an easy beauty to the look of these clips that I find myself wanting to go there, recline on some lawn furniture, sip a glass of wine and relax.

The new strand of The Auralia Thread will be called Raven’s Ladder.

I hope you like it. Tonight (all night) and tomorrow morning (all morning) I am packaging up my first draft for the editor. I have that familiar sensation of excitement and nerves and relief and apprehension…

Anyway, that’s what I’m doing tonight. What are you doing?

You’re watching the trailer for the new Jim Jarmusch film… at Twitch.