threedonia.com (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
... and revenge flick with no one to root for. I’d hate to see the scripts he rejected. From Kyle Smith : Looking for logic in this picture is like looking for sexy pictures in the Lands’ End winter catalog. So elaborate is the series of booby traps, so extravagant the secret chambers, so precisely timed the gizmos and so feverish Clyde’s vows to terrorize his way to justice that I kept...
threedonia.com (Free subscription) | 27/09/2009
Threedonia friend and N.Y. Post columnist Kyle Smith gave Michael Moore an easy out with an easy question. It was an honest chance for Moore to go on record that he was not all that his conservative critics accuse him of. The results were predictable. I went to a mike and said (I am paraphrasing our [...]
Skysports.com (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
... go.never rated the man , his greatest triumph was with Houlier's squad.Posted 17:20 31st October 2009Kyle Smith (Liverpool fan) says...I cant belive what is happening rafa confuses me why take torres kuyt and benayoun off when there clearly the best players on the pitch, as for voronin who the hell is he, hes a very poor player, we pull of a win against manchester united then lose...
threedonia.com (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Starring Bradley Cooper of The Hangover as Templeton “Faceman” Peck, former UFC champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson as B.A. Baracus, Sharlto Cooper of District 9 as Murdoch and Liam Neeson as Col. Hannibal Smith. Yes, that is the venerable GMC full-sized van in the background. Pros: John Singleton is off the project, replaced by Joe Carnahan of Smoking [...]
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
... loose in fewer than 70 theaters -- a film in the Quentin Tarantino mold of cartoonish violence. Kyle Smith in the New York Post says that the movie can not be regarded as "a taut thriller. More like a fleshy, messy, jangled frenzy of shootouts and much discussion about the mechanics of romantic entanglements that bloom between prison inmates." Robert Abele in the Los Angeles Times...
IMDb News (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
... which is being let loose in fewer than 70 theaters -- a film in the mold of cartoonish violence. Kyle Smith in the New York Post says that the movie can not be regarded as "a taut thriller. More like a fleshy, messy, jangled frenzy of shootouts and much discussion about the mechanics of romantic entanglements that bloom between prison inmates." Robert Abele in the Los Angeles Times...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Cirque du Freak The Vampire's Assistant is receiving a lot of biting criticism from reviewers. Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times calls it "a mess." Kyle Smith in the New...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
After picking up my new copy of National Review (not yet available online), I noticed that the first book under review was 'We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism', by NR writer John Derbyshire. Unsurprisingly, the review--courtesy of New York Post film critic Kyle Smith--is a rave ("delightful", "wide ranging", and "gratifying"). Derbyshire is...
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
... to break down some of those barriers. It's time for someone to figure out this simple fact." Kyle Smith: "Obama's Fumbles On 'Monday Night Football'" The conservative columnist for the New York Post argues that Obama propaganda is seeping into everything (hat tip: Black & Right ): "Remember that time President Bush interrupted the Emmy telecast to tell people...
Another Pundit (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Obama’s fumbles on ‘Monday Night Football’ BY: Kyle Smith Remember that time President Bush interrupted the Emmy telecast to tell people we should support reform of Social Security before it bankrupted the country? Neither do I. Yet when I tuned in to watch "Monday Night Football" this week to check out the Miami Dolphins’ Wildcat offense, I didn’t...
IMDb News (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
is receiving a lot of biting criticism from reviewers. in the Chicago Sun-Times calls it "a mess." Kyle Smith in the New York Post dismisses it as an "inept fantasy." (The headline of his review reads: “Fangs for Nothing: ‘Freak’ Show Sucks.”) Most note that it's aimed at teen boys, and Desson Thomas in the Washington Post advises: "If serious, hard-core vampire movies for adults are...
Cato-at-liberty (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
I’m late to the pile-on because I’m a bad American, and I don’t watch enough football, but not quite two weeks ago, President Obama managed to politicize what for many is a hallowed Monday night ritual . In the New York Post , the paper of record for those of us who grew up in one of the only red counties on the Jersey Shore , Kyle Smith notes that Obama’s ostensible purpose for inserting...
Gene Healy (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
I’m late to the pile-on because I’m a bad American, and I don’t watch enough football, but not quite two weeks ago, President Obama managed to politicize what for many is a hallowed Monday night ritual . In the New York Post , the paper of record for those of us who grew up in one of the only red counties on the Jersey Shore , Kyle Smith notes that Obama’s ostensible purpose for inserting...
Anchor Rising (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
If Not the Law, the CultureJustin Katz Two well-placed articles — by virtue of their proximity to each other — in the September 21 National Review point to a necessary conclusion for a modern conservative political philosophy. The first item is an interior quotation by American Medical Association lobbyist William Woodward within a book review by Kyle Smith (emphasis added):The trouble...
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
... course, is any analysis of the cost of doing business in this town-something that Post columnist Kyle Smith underscores in an editorial in the Post yesterday: "New York City businesses that are stumbling through the recession are starting to feel like the screaming victims in horror movies (“The Devil’s Rejects” and others) who run away from the psychotic family...
