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“You’re not the man you once were,” says the star of Star Wars II and III, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith.
“None of us are,” growls the Oscar winner for Leaving Las Vegas.
My review of Outcast is up at The Dissolve.
The rocket-boots (and the wolf DNA) make the man. Channing Tatum & Mila Kunis (Warner Bros.)
Sorry, you guys: Jupiter Ascending, the Wachowskis' latest sci-fi epic, is neither the trainwreck you want nor the home run you need. My review, for The Dissolve.
Ralph Fiennes and Tony Revolori as Gustave and Moustafa.
And here're Nos. 25-1 on the poll of the best films of 2010-4, as chosen by The Dissolve's staff and contributors. I wrote the entry for The Grand Budapest Hotel. As with every Wes Anderson movie save for The Darjeeling Limited, I've loved it more each time I've seen it.
The Dissolve invited a bunch of its contributors to join its staff in selected the 50 best films made so far this decade. I ran out of time to submit my ballot, but I still did writeups for a couple of the winning films that I agreed belonged in the half-decade's top 50. The first half of the list – or the bottom half – was posted today. The one I wrote up for this part, Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice, came in at No. 48.
"Most men know less about their own bodies than they do about their automobiles."
John Ford, who made Stagecoach and The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and who won the Academy Award for Best Director four times – not for any of the first-rate pictures I've just named – also made a sex-ed film for G.I.s in 1942, the same year he collected his third Best Director Oscar for How Green Was My Valley.
Okay, maybe that's only funny to me. Anyway, if you think it's worth 26 minutes of your life to learn how not to catch syphilis from – in the charming patois of Sex Hygiene – "a contaminated woman," you can watch this not-so-casually misogynistic but highly informative short above. Even if you're already fully briefed on how to protect yourself from the predatory vaginas of dirty, dirty whores, this film has at least two other things to recommend it.
1) It features the greatest reaction shots ever captured on film.
2) Eisenhower-era TV Superman George Reeves and Robert Lowery, who played Batman in the 1949 serial Batman and Robin, appear together briefly in an early scene, so if you want a preview of what next year's Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice will be like, well... it will probably be like this, at least in hair-gel terms.
Read MoreIt's a cruel irony that Joe Anderson's performance as an Aryan Nation asshole who takes a black family hostage is the best thing about the grim, dim Supremacy.
My review of Supremacy, Deon Taylor's dreary thriller marketed under that meaningless, catnip-for-dim-people phrase, Based on Actual Events, is on The Dissolve today. It's a deeply unpleasant genre movie that's convinced it's saying something bold about Race in America. I had to resort to quoting the film's press notes. I don't feel good about it, but if you read them you'll see I had no choice.
Writer/codirector/star Simon Helberg and Melanie Lynskey in We'll Never Have Paris.
My review of Simon Helberg's autobiographical romantic comedy – hey there, Buddy, are you sure you want to do this? – We'll Never Have Paris is on The Dissolve today.
Michael Mann's Heat, one of my favorite films, is The Dissolve's Movie of the Week this week. I contributed this essay about the sprawling crime picture's many progenitors, including the short-lived-but-great late-80s TV series Crime Story.
You'll want to read Scott Tobias' keynote and Nathan Rabin & Matthew Dessem's forum discussion, too. The latter is where I learned that Kate Mantilini, the Beverly Hills bistro where Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro's famous late-night sit-down in Heat was shot, closed last year. When last I was there, in 2005, a giant still from The Scene hung on the wall.
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