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Cheers! It's on my Worst of 2002 list in the General Film Forum archives. (And I would like to say that you're still being much too kind about this dreadful mess of a movie!)

Ummmm, Ann-Margret anyone? The only woman who's been called the female Elvis? The woman who wore a hot pink ruffled top with matching Capri pants and gyrated in a teen club in Bye Bye Birdie! (A...

And she did do a mean cover of "The Clapping Song" on her first album years ago. ; )

It would have to be a tie between Memento & The Shawshank Redemption. While taking into effect that both are good films, when it comes down to it Memento is essentially nothing more than an average...

There have been very few signs of true life at the Academy Awards the past oh, I don't know, 30 years or so. My favorite moments have been Robin Williams singing 'Blame Canada' from South Park,...

This really doesn't have much to do with anything that's been posted recently but I thought I would send it in anyway: a friend of mine was leaving the theater after watching The Hours and heard...

And there's also:

Willem Dafoe in Shadow of the Vampire -a pretentious piece of crap but he was fantastic

Gary Sinise & Robin Wright in Forrest Gump -I don't want to start a...

Forget you two, how 'bout Brett Ratner? : )

Didn't mean to come off as some sort of bitter old man with a bleak view of the future in that last posting; I agree with your statements about some of the examples you offered and I like your...

Yes, it is a real issue -and one to easily address- but with mainstream America happily lapping all of it up, can it be resolved? I don't think so. It's been this way for years and I don't really...

Now that this has degenerated into a disturbing A Beautiful Mind debate, I would like to sum all this up with the words spoken by Ronnie Howard in the beginning of his DVD commentary for Mind: "We...

You've also reminded me of other examples:

Jodie Foster in Panic Room (she and the young girl who played her daughter were wonderful but the film was nothing more than a bourgeois B-movie that...

I second that.

Purchased:

1. 8 Women (it's fun -a guilty pleasure)

2. Pennies from Heaven (album)

3. Barbarella (album)

4. Paris Blues (CD)

Since there's so much hype around the Oscars and who's going to win and all that, out of curiousity -and general boredom- I was interested to see if people had any examples of great performances in...

And he favored The Rules of Attraction. ; )

Persistent little thing, aren't you?

Yes, always see a film regardless of what the critics say and J. Hoberman is a good judge of solid filmmaking but remember that he did gave a rather blase, slightly stiff review for The Pianist.

Forgot about this one: Afterglow, a last conversation with Pauline Kael

A great last reminder of an intelligent, funny woman and a first-rate film critic.

ps- thanks for the Ain't It slam!

Cheers!

Here, here! I've always found the Academy to be nothing more than a big boys club that's easily turned off by an empowered -or strongly passionate- woman. (I'm not forgetting Chicago; I think it's...

Oh thank you for the Mary Ann direction! She's wonderful! And very funny! I love film critics with a sense of humor -it's rare- and she's refreshingly fun to read. The only other critics that I...

I have to say that I have an overwhelming amount of respect for you when it comes to posting your feelings; it's easy, terribly easy, to 'critique' -i.e. rip apart, tear down, trash- a movie but...

I agree with you on Renee, Richard, and Bebe Neuwirth -I haven't heard Ute- and thank you very much for posting your opinion.

the buoy from the beginning of Jaws (I'd put it in my pool and re-enact the scene for guests)
the plastic chest Jane Fonda wore in Barbarella
the straight razor used in Dressed to Kill
the bucket...