critics seem to be crazy about match point: check out the rave reviews. unfortunately, i don’t have enough knowledge of woody allen’s work to be able see this film in the context of his career, nor a special fondness for the guy.

i have no idea what he was trying to do in match point. if the idea is that life is 10% talent and 90% luck, er, okay. if the idea is that scarlett johansson and jonathan rhys meyers are gorgeous, i’m with you, woody, though i have to say you have always creeped me out, and scarlett is TWENTY, for fuckssakes!

i don’t know, dude. affairs are hard to get out of, the high life is hard to throw to the winds, passion leads us to dark places, and babies have a nasty way of popping up if you fuck enough. thing is, none of this interests me very much. or maybe it’s just the way you present it, woody. (more…)

Has anyone seen ‘Ice Harvest’? He seems to have been in some weak movies in recent years. What are his best movies? We can probably all agree on ‘Con Air’ but what after that? For me, probably ‘Grosse Pointe Blank’ (which ‘Ice Harvest’ seemed to be trying and failing to emulate), ‘High Fidelity’ and ‘Being John Malkovitch.’