Washington Post (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
There's a deranged grandeur to Nicolas Cage's performance in " Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans ," in which he plays a police officer who plunges into drug addiction after a heroic on-the-job accident. Cage throws himself into a role of a man not so much battling as fervidly dancing with his...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Movies come, movies go. But a rare few arrive like gifts, sent by some cosmic messenger to stir the senses, awaken compassion and send viewers into a world made radically new by invigorated alertness and empathy. Such is the movie "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," which surely qu...
Spanish Teaching (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
CBC.ca Movie review: Ann Hornaday on 'The Box'Washington PostA TOUGH DECISION: James Marsden and Cameron Diaz. (Dale Robinette/warner Bros. Via Associated Press) By Ann Hornaday Between "Donnie Darko," "Southland Tales" and now "The Box," Newport News native Richard Kelly is becoming the cinematic poet laureate …'The Box'Los Angeles TimesJames Marsden...
Spanish Teaching (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
New Yorker Ann Hornaday reviews 'The Men Who Stare at Goats' and 'A Woman in Berlin'Washington PostFew cinematic pleasures are as sublime as George Clooney in full Clark Gable mode, as he is for much of the comedy "The Men Who Stare at Goats." His hair cropped to a metal-filings brush cut, with a full mustache [...]
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Between "Donnie Darko," "Southland Tales" and now "The Box," Newport News native Richard Kelly is becoming the cinematic poet laureate of suburban Virginia, in all its drab monotony and sneaking sense that something's going on behind those neat lawns and identical doors.
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Few cinematic pleasures are as sublime as George Clooney in full Clark Gable mode, as he is for much of the comedy "The Men Who Stare at Goats." His hair cropped to a metal-filings brush cut, with a full mustache to match, he cuts a figure similar to Gable when he was beginning to thicken and age...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
The British actress Carey Mulligan delivers a quietly astonishing performance in "An Education," a beguiling little film that, with deceptive restraint and forthrightness, opens up worlds of roiling, contradictory emotions.
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
It surely speaks to the success of torture porn -- a subspecies of the horror genre known for its graphic, sadistic violence -- that its slashing, spurting vernacular has finally migrated to the art house. With "Antichrist," the venerated Danish auteur Lars von Trier experiments with how far he can...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Is "Where the Wild Things Are" a work of art or a desecration?
Movie Marketing Madness (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Ann Hornaday in The Washington Post (10/26/09) writes about the Fox Searchlight biopic Amelia and uses it as a hook on which to ask the question of whether or not women go to the movies. If you look at the list of movies that have succeeded in recent years in attracting women and becoming successful and [...] Did you like this post? Read all the Movie Marketing Madness columns here. Or you...
Alliance of Women Film Journalists (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Yet more bullshit “explanations” for why there aren’t more movies about women… HOLLYWOOD HATES WOMEN, PART 10,853,184. Ann Hornaday in The Washington Post laments the disappearance of strong women from multiplex screens: In an era when women in movies fall along a spectrum defined by Hannah Montana and “Twilight” on one end and “Sex and the City”...
Spanish Teaching (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
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Spanish Teaching (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
New Yorker The Men Who Stare at Goats New York Times In “The Men Who Stare at Goats” George Clooney wears a heavy mustache and a somewhat shaggier version of the military haircut called a high and tight, two adjectives which also describe his performance in this likable, lightweight, absurdist comedy. … The Men Who Stare at Goats' MiamiHerald.com Movie mini-review: Ann Hornaday on George Clooney...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
by Amanda Marcotte I spend a lot of time thanking Sady Doyle for saying it, but I have to, because she’s so good. Thanks for this, Sady. Ann Hornaday’s editorial about “strong women” in movies, and particularly t...
Top Stories from Newser (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
This weekend's battle at the multiplex, where sci-fi trounced Amelia Earhart, has carried over into the world of virtual opinion. Washington Post critic Ann Hornaday fired the first shot, and Sady Doyle fires back, explaining that she senses a “note of condescension.” See Amelia , Hornaday implores. “No Manolo Blahniks! No...
