Category Archives: Opinion

Anthony Lane maybe has fallen off the wagon of righteousness in recent days/years–but I insist that his collection of reviews, Nobody’s Perfect is filled with such delightfully cruel lines, such LOLs, that it’s worth a read. I cannot defend these … Continue reading →

Ah, the boys of the New Yorker. You’ve gotta love ’em. Wait, do I? Do I have to love them? I have been increasingly irritated by the New Yorker, my all-time favorite publication, and its admirably staunch refusal to feature … Continue reading →

Well! If I have ever used the phrase “run, don’t walk,” to tell you to do something, I have never meant it more than I do now, when I say run, don’t walk, to your nearest cinema multiplex, and pay … Continue reading →

In honor of me about to see “Bridesmaids”–as you should all similarly be about to do (VOTE WITH YOUR DOLLARS, PEOPLE, RALPH NADER TAUGHT US THIS)–let us all bask in the terrible gender stereotype of the rom-com female, who, as … Continue reading →

I saw the last Claire Denis movie I saw, 35 Shots of Rum ( despite the title, it’s not the follow-up to Cocktail) which I saw in a New York Movie Theatre with my super-cool friend Mary Manning, who always … Continue reading →

I know this blog is really me n’ Regardings reviews blog, but in case you missed it, bell hooks’ review of the Social Network was tacked into this collection of interview excerpts from her interview with Ms. Magazine: “I noticed … Continue reading →

1. Le Petit Soldat: Hilarious in light of my colleague’s recent remarks on Jean Luc Godard, but it must be pointed out that I share a Netflix queue with my husband, a pretentious film scholar, and that thus our queue … Continue reading →

1. Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye About three years ago, maybe when I very-first got Netflix, I put about 200 movies on my cue right away, and right now I am hitting a spate of them–art documentaries and Brando films. … Continue reading →