Good lord, am I to fall behind on even just posting links over here?

OK, here we go, since last we spoke:

2 weekly roundups:
Popcorn & Candy: Float On
Popcorn & Candy: The Marrying Kind

3 movie reviews on DCist:
I'm Still Here
The Town
A Woman, a Gun, and a Noodle Shop

and, 1 review on NPR:
The Romantics

Oh, what a busy week. Next time I decide to do something like this, somebody slap some sense into me. After Wednesday's review of The American, everything just goes into a blurry haze. Let's get to linking, shall we?

First, there's the usual weekly film column, in which we talk briefly about The Tillman Story and a screening of Roman Holiday among ( Read more... )

My review on DCist of the quiet new George Clooney thriller, The American.

The next installment of our summer rooftop movie series was announced today over at Cinéma sur le toit. Check it out.

Two reviews for today, both movies about criminals, but that's where the similarity ends. One is an awful, formulaic, cliche-ridden GQ ad posing as a heist movie, Takers (on NPR), and the other is a good-bordering-on-excellent account of the life of notorious French criminal Jacques Mesrine, the first of two parts, Mesrine: Killer Instinct (on ( Read more... )

After taking a head-clearing week off for vacation, P&C returns with a rather trashy group of film picks: Popcorn & Candy: Double Trouble

Despite the radio silence, I did, in fact, have a couple of movie reviews posted last week. It's just I was relaxing on the beach when they did. So here they are, belatedly ( Read more... )

Three reviews for today:

On NPR, a solid little British abduction thriller in The Disappearance of Alice Creed.

And on DCist, the mountaineering documentary about an attempt to (somewhat) recreate the first attempt at climbing Everest, The Wildest Dream, as well as the new Todd Solondz, a ten-years-after sequel to Happiness in Life During Wartime

Popcorn & Candy: Peanuts & Pratfalls

Not as good as the first, still better than the average horror flick: my review of [REC] 2.