Year: 2008

weekend box office: doggie doo-doo dominates again

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I understand that in hard times, people just want something silly to entertain them. But Beverly Hills Chihuahua? Really? 1. Beverly Hills Chihuahua: $17.5 million (dropping 40% in its 2nd week) 2. Quarantine: $14.2 million (NEW) 3. Body of Lies: $13.1 million (NEW) 4. Eagle Eye: $11 million (3rd week) 5. Nick & Norah’s Infinite … more…

my British DVD shopping spree

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Oh yes, I bought DVDs during my recent trip to the U.K. A rundown: • The Complete Black Books: Series 1, 2 & 3: A comedy about people who work in a bookstore. I’ve been hearing about this for ages and have been dying to see it. And now it’s all mine. Bwahahahahaha! (Turns out … more…

David Tennant in ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’

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Please don’t consider this a review. I saw the very first preview of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new production of Love’s Labour’s Lost. This was the very first time the company was performing the play in front of an audience, and it was obvious, at least to someone like me, with experience not just as … more…

trailer break: ‘Quarantine’

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Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… It’s the Rage virus meets the housing crisis. I hear there are some apartments going cheap in Los Angeles… Quarantine opens today, without benefit of press screenings.

screencap Friday: what the flick? #40

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Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from one of the DVDs in my collection (and it’s definitely from a movie, not a TV show). Guess the movie for fun and, well, fun. No prizes, just bragging rights. But hey: one guess per comment — no fair hogging all the guesses.

Body of Lies (review)

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How do you win a war you can’t win? The short answer is probably: You don’t. You don’t win it. You just go on losing it for a long, long time.