Apologies for the lateness today. I’m hammering this out on the plane en route to Los Angeles. God bless Virgin America/on-board Wi-Fi.
• Alan Duke talks to the Jewish Eli Roth about his pro-Nazi short “Nation’s Pride.” [CNN]
• Saturday Night Live star Bill Hader on why a hard R “MacGruber” might work. [Vulture]
• The top 10 gangster films ever. [Daily Telegraph]
There are so many reasons to distrust “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” a New Line romantic fantasy that resembles a kind of pop, estrogen-pumped “Benjamin Button” in its study of a lifelong, chronologically disordered love affair.
One, it’s been delayed for a whole year — perhaps to avoid a “Button” overlap, but still, it doesn’t augur well. Two, it’s directed by Robert Schwentke, who is best known for the execrable Jodie Foster potboiler “Flightplan.” Three, it’s based on a piece of gussied-up chick-lit as godawful as it is ubiquitous. And four, well, this trailer:
More thoughts, and a new one-sheet, after the cut.