Kate Moss W Cover

There's really nothing to say. Kate Moss has still got it, her bone structure pains me, I'm obsessed. The cover is really fun too, I love the big hair, really different! Anyway pick this up, I know I will!

(500) Days Of Summer

I was really apprehensive about seeing this movie, I thought it could be a trying to hard to be quirky Juno-style disaster. Much to my surprise this move was delightful! It had it's moments that were pushing the quirk to hard (the precocious advice dispensing younger sister comes to mind), but most of the film was postitivley delightful, spending time with Summer and Tom was a lot of fun, and the unique directorial choices kept me engaged. A musical number, the split screen, the non-linear time line, the narration, somehow all these elements which can be obnoxious separately mesh together to paint a beautiful rich portrait of a relationship within Tom's mind.

Unlike traditional rom-coms (500) Days Of Summer doesn't pretend that it's giving you a mixed perspective, we only see Summer through Tom's eyes, we don't know about her childhood or what she does when she's not with Tom, or what she yearns to be in life. All we know is what she said to Tom, the limited amount of herself that she shared, and that, to me, was very interesting. This ambiguity allowed for a beautiful sequence in which the same montage of shots, when played twice with different music and at a different point in the film painted Summer as a beautiful to-good-to-be-true angel, and a selfish cold bitch.

Give (500) Days Of Summer a shot, it's a sweet August movie that will make you smile.

Brick

I watched Brick again tonight, it's a movie like Annie Hall that I just like the tone of so much. One that I could play in my house all the time just to have something on in the background. In Brick's case I think this has a lot to do with the excellent score.

Brick is a modern Noir set in a high school, Joseph Gordon Levitt's ex-girlfriend ends up dead two days after calling him asking for help with a bad brick, a tug, and a pin. We follow protagonist Levitt through his quest to figure out what happened to, and how to avenge the death of his ex. It's got a really interesting tone, kind of bittersweet. JGL gives a really great performance, he's so talented, re-watching Brick has made me even more anxious to get around to Mysterious Skin and 500 Days Of Summer. Another great surprise in this film is Nora Zehetner who plays femme fatale Laura. She's totally delightful and walks the line between temptress and evil incarnate really well.

The dialogue is what's most impressive in Brick. The first time I watched it I put subtitles on as to catch all the subtitles in the script. The talk is tight, and it doesn't slow down to make sure you understand, it's not all style either, missing one or two lines of dialog could mean the difference between following the mystery and being totally lost. This is all to say nothing of the ending scene which is breathtaking in its beauty. I want to move into this movie's world. Check it out immediatley if you haven't.

New Where The Wild Things Are Trailer

This movie cannot be as good as it looks. If it is I may be forced to set up shop in a theater and not leave until Christmas. The tone is so right on, theres moments of elation and fun, and delight and some truly heartwrenching scenes. I cannot wait. The kid playing Max looks and sounds so great, he's so little kid cute that he makes me want to get pregnant right now. Less than 2 months now and it's still too long.

Rodarte to do a line for Target

Kind of surreal. The infamously unwearable Rodarte is planning a 55 piece line to be sold at Target stores all for under $80. It seems kind of risky for Target, and for Rodarte. There's nothing in my eyes about the brand that screams everyday woman, I feel an Alexander Wang for Target line would have made a lot more sense, but we'll see what the pieces are like. If they manage to keep the feeling of the original line I can see myself picking a good portion of the 55 pieces up.

Funny People

Funny People was probably my most anticipated movie of the summer. I'm a total Apatow fan-girl, Knocked Up, Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared are among my favorite comedies, I've loved nearly everything Seth Rogen has done, and I think Adam Sandler does a great job in more serious roles, his performance in Punch-Drunk Love is especially memorable.

Funny People, is Apatow's third film, and maybe my favorite so far. I suppose it's not as laugh out loud funny as Knocked Up (which is not to say it doesn't have its moments) but the emotional pay-off is greater here, and the characters are more varied and interesting. Sandler's character George is totally miserable, and kind of an awful person, the dynamics between him and Rogen's Ira (playing the lovable nice guy once again) are so fun to watch. You find some part of each of them to relate to, and to hate. There are some really emotionally arresting scenes having to do with Sandler's illness, one of my favorites being the moments after the diagnosis, which in another movie would have been slow motion, close up on his face, sad music being reflective. In Apatow's world, life goes on, fans still ask for pictures, he still has to wait for stop lights etc. Really this is kind of what the movie is about, through the darkest moments in this film, Apatow never shies away from cutting the tension with a dick joke. And for some reason this speaks to me.

The only thing that doesn't work about Funny People is the last act love triangle bit, I see what they were going for, and parts of it are genuinley funny, but in the end the payoff isn't big enough to justify adding another hour to the film (which clocks in at 2.5 hrs). I would have rather seen that time spent with Sandler, Rogen and RZA. Yeah RZA! He's in this! Aces! See it now.