my week at the movies: ‘Twilight,’ ‘Good,’ ‘Bolt,’ ‘Australia,’ ‘Four Christmases,’ ‘Transporter 3’

I am indeed still unreservedly psyched for Australia (opens wide in the U.S. on November 26, and in the U.K. on December 26). I know, I know: I’ve heard all the rumors about supposedly reshoots and cancelled premieres and last-minute edits, and I don’t care. I’m treasuring my little bit of naive excitement for the movie for one more day, and then I’ll know.

I do suspect that my tender hopes for Four Christmases (opens wide in the U.S. and in the U.K. on November 26) will be thwarted. But you never know.

I expect nothing at all from Transporter 3 (opens wide in the U.S. on November 26, and in the U.K. on December 5) beyond loud action, a couple of dumb one-liners, and a reinforcement of my opinion that Jason Statham is an unappealing thug... or, if he isn’t, he plays one on TV. I love this, though, and by “love” of course I mean “approach with nothing but derision”: the director’s name is Olivier Megaton. Which, you’ll be shocked to learn, is not his real name, but is instead how he apparently feels about the impact he makes upon the world, and that it is something akin to that of an atomic bomb. *snort*