watch it: a Thanksgiving greeting from New York City
Hate ta tell ya, but you’re not gonna be wakin’ up, little turkey dude. (Funny renditions of “New York, New York” always crack me up…)
Year: 2008
trailer break: ‘The Reader’
Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Ah, romance! Nazis! History! Books! Swimming as a representation of innocence! An Oscar-nominated cast! The Reader opens limited in the U.S. on December 10, and wide on January 9, 2009; it opens in the U.K. on January 2, 2009.
U.K. box office: ‘Quantum of Solace’ still holding strong
It’s still all about James Bond at the British box office: 1. Quantum of Solace: £2.9 million (4th week; drops 44%) 2. Body of Lies: £.99 million (NEW) 3. My Best Friend’s Girl: £.91 million (NEW) 4. High School Musical 3: Senior Year: £.6 million (5th week; drops 38%) 5. Zack and Miri Make a … more…
watch it: “Thank You Sarah Palin – Thanksgiving Version”
What I’m thankful for this Thanksgiving eve: that Sarah Palin is not going to be our vice president in a few months, and that people who think like this has been repudiated: This is not, by the way, a joke: these folks are completely serious. (Hat tip to my friend and fellow film critic Dan … more…
Four Christmases (review)
Brad and Kate are perfectly, deliriously happy with their unmarried, child-free existence, so naturally this cannot be allowed to stand.
Australia (review)
If director Baz Luhrmann had decided to shoot in black-and-white, you’d hardly be able to tell this wasn’t made around 1939 or so. Sure, all those gorgeous helicopter shots of the wild and dangerous and beautiful Outback would be a dead giveaway, so they’d have to go. But otherwise…
no go on ‘Gran Torino’
My day started off shitty, with all sorts of hobbling of the site just as I’m starting to build up traffic again. Fantastic. I get some new people in here, and the first thing they see is a messed-up site with half its content missing, or a site that looks okay but when they try … more…
watch it: “Doctor Who – Hakuna Matata – Spoof”
One last little bit of silliness for the Doctor’s big birthday: Some people have way too much time on their hands.
more site strangeness
As you probably noticed, the site was acting bizarrely for much of the day — server errors when you tried to post a comment, then half the content disappearing… I only just collected emails that have been piling up for the last 24 hours, and a day’s worth of email related to a site like … more…
North American box office: ‘Twilight’ doesn’t suck
The holiday weekend started early this year. These are the kinds of numbers we usually see over a long weekend, when kids are off from school and adults are off from work and everyone’s in a mood to see a movie, not a regular ol’ weekend, and particularly one over which, you might think, people … more…
