Archive for January, 2010

Sex: One teen-ager’s final frontier

Rating 3.00 out of 5

[?]Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed

Michael Cera is inspired to be bold by Portia Doubleday.
Michael Cera carries the burden of his familiar presence lightly enough to keep from wearing out his welcome. In Youth in Revolt, Cera (familiar from Juno and Superbad) again follows in his own footsteps, playing a baby-faced high-school kid [...]

The messy imagination of Terry Gilliam

Rating 3.00 out of 5

[?]Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed

Heath Ledger standing tall before the looking glass.
There’s no shortage of imagination in Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, but when it comes to other matters — a compelling story for example — the movie is running on empty. Less a movie than a tribute to visual [...]