The current cinema, perky edition

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• Lex says:

  September 26, 2012 at 4:52 am

  LOOOOOOOOOOOK AT HER!!!
  CUTE! CUTE!
  Oh, and… CUTE!!! Kendrick isn’t as saucy as Em-Stone and def­in­itely not as HYPNOTIC as K‑Stew, but she seems like she’d be the best girl­friend ever. Also I liked her singing that Cam’Ron song in End of Watch.

• rotch says:

  September 26, 2012 at 10:21 am

  Ah, so sad to read that about Hotel Transylvania. Tartakovsky’s out­put, spe­cially the sub­lime Samurai Jack, had me hop­ing for a strong film debut.

• george says:

  September 26, 2012 at 4:39 pm

  That pic­ture perked up my day! She’s the greatest.

• Cadavra says:

  September 27, 2012 at 1:51 am

  See, I had the exact oppos­ite reac­tion to HT. It strikes me as a movie for the boomers. The kids today–their “mon­sters” are Freddy, Jason and Jigsaw. They would­n’t know Dracula from Drake. The fact that the movie addresses the idea that the clas­sic mon­sters are some­how out­dated (not unlike that clas­sic moment in “The Simpsons“ ‘ Halloween epis­ode a couple of years back) kind of tickled me. But you’re right that the rap num­ber at the end neg­ates everything that happened before, but such num­bers are appar­ently de rigueur ever since the “Shrek” movies beat the idea to death.

• Lex says:

  September 27, 2012 at 7:08 am

  LOOK AT HER BEING A LITTLE KENDRICKY!
  Can someone tell me if she shows her feet in this?
  She is SO CUTE and SO FUNNY and I usu­ally NEVER EVER like funny women unless it’s Emma Stone and the late great awe­some Brittany Murphy, but some­thing about Little Kendricky makes me feel secure where even though she’s being all silly and funny, I don’t feel threatened as an alpha male and would think she WAS SO COOL AND DOWN AND FUN and OH MY GOD IS SHE AWESOME.

• Chris L. says:

  September 27, 2012 at 9:42 pm

  Lex’s instincts are right-on here (if you dis­count the “non-threatening” requirement).
  Also, a note to cast­ing dir­ect­ors: Kendrick + Elizabeth Olsen = Apotheosis of Squeezability.

• jbryant says:

  September 28, 2012 at 1:37 pm

  She is indeed awesome.
  Glenn, per­haps you’ll prefer one of her upcom­ing films, Joe Swanberg’s DRINKING BUDDIES. Oh, wait…

• Glenn Kenny says:

  September 28, 2012 at 1:42 pm

  Heard about that, JBryant. Too bad. With the obvi­ous excep­tions of Kent Osborne and JS’s wife (and even there the jury could con­ceiv­ably said to be out) pretty much every­one who works with Swannie lives to regret it.

• Petey says:

  September 28, 2012 at 6:04 pm

  Now I’m truly con­fused, Glenn. Should we be expect­ing a Kenny/Faraci box­ing match or a Kenny/Swanberg box­ing match?

• Glenn Kenny says:

  September 28, 2012 at 6:25 pm

  I’ll take ’em both on. Faraci first, as I’ll be able to take him out with a love tap. Swanberg will be a trick­i­er pro­pos­i­tion. Give me a month to train though and I’m pretty sure I can make his moth­er wish she nev­er had him, his wife wish she’d nev­er mar­ried him (that’ll be a little tough­er since as far as I can glean—from her film, her per­form­ances in her hus­band’s films, and a brief face-to-face meeting—she’s only barely sen­tient), and so on, and so on. I’ve got every con­fid­ence that Swanberg loathes me even more than he does Faraci, but we’re nev­er gonna “duke it out” because a) it’s just too adolescent—I’m in my fifties for heav­en’s sake; and b) I think he knows that I know more about him than he’s com­fort­able with, and wants to keep away. Which is rather prudent of him I must say.