I saw Terminator 2: Judgment Day last night for the first time. Only eighteen years after it was released. And despite it being eighteen years later, it was one of the best films I’ve ever seen. Let’s break it down into five points: More »« Less

One of my favorite movies is Capote. It’s a gripping portrayal of Truman Capote’s yadda yadda yadda, but what I really like is how SMOKING HOT Catherine Keener is as Harper Lee. Oh yes. The best way for me to explain this to you would probably be to say that it’s similar to how I imagine how you, dear reader, feel about Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy. I don’t care who you are; I’m sure you have good feelings about that.

I was considering watching this fine cinematic venture the other night, and did a little impulsive googling, which yielded one of the most incredible film reviews I have seen in a long while. Behold this excerpt, all emphasis mine:

Truman had a lot of friends: homosexual, black-what have you, including the woman female novelist Harper Lee with whom he had a lesbian relationship. Wearing an unflattering wig, Catherine Keener’s Harper Lee was a volcano of seething lesbian ambition. The way Philip Seymour Hoffman pursed his lips while slurping on a Tom Collins really captured the character of this homosexual bon vivant like a photograph. It was almost eerie. Hoffman played this role with the relish of a born homosexual. He has said in interviews that he took up acting to meet girls after a football injury, but we don’t buy it. We know a homosexual when we see it!

I was both saddened and unsurprised to find that the dynamic duo responsible for this were composing in the vein of satire, but their prose still thrills. I will be hanging my hat upon the phrase, “a volcano of seething lesbian ambition,” for a long time to come!

Remember back in February, when I told you about Let the Right One In? I think I’ve watched it a dozen times since then, and I still love it every bit as much. I watched it again a few nights ago, in fact, and was struck by how right the tone felt with the sense of coming autumn that’s in the air.

In particular, there’s a scene where young Oskar drops the needle on a 60s sounding 45, trying to look cool in front of Eli, and it really conveys so much of the raw feeling of adolescence– the gawky need to appear cool without being sure what that really is; the way the feeling of rock music resonates with your rushing hormones though the content of the lyrics is still distant and indecipherable; and for me at least, the way that the bite of chilled air and dark winter nights hook into the melancholy and maladjustment of puberty. More »« Less

Here at the mitchco a go go, we love Tina Fey with the sort of burning intensity that’s usually reserved for describing late-stage STIs. To get your Monday started off right, here are links to four Tina Fey interviews that we enjoy visiting again and again:

1. Alec Baldwin interviewing Tina Fey, soon after Mean Girls was released and when 30 Rock was still just a twinkle in her eye (if you love 30 Rock, this one is a treat!)
2. An interview with Tina Fey from a 2003 issue of The Believer
3. Writer and Actress Tina Fey, on Fressssh Air, right after Mean Girls had come out, April 28, 2004 (audio)
4. Tina Fey: Sarah Palin And ‘Saturday Night’ Satire, talking about her Palin parody and 30 Rock on Fressssssssh Air, November 3, 2008 (audio)

Whew! We hope that was as delightful for you as it was for us.

I know this is a parody, but I would actually pay money to see this movie:

Alicia Silverstone + Alanis Morissette + Soundtrack Movie cannot equal anything other than an epic fucknut insane piece of cinema. Thanks for the heads-up, Liz!