Ghost Town (review)
Maybe Ricky Gervais is a funny guy, but you’d never know it from this charmless excuse for a supernatural romantic comedy…
Year: 2008
trailer break: ‘My Best Friend’s Girl’
Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Not screened for critics (and so currently has a Freshness rating of N/A on Rotten Tomatoes). I bet it ends up not screening for too many members of the general public, either. My Best Friend’s Girl opens today.
screencap Friday: what the flick? #37
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.
Lakeview Terrace (review)
Oh, to live to see such a rarity: a horror movie for grownups!
watch it: “The Gloaming”
Beautifully creepy…
Igor (review)
Has there ever been so amiably demented a flick as this one?
trailer break: ‘Doubt’
Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Heh: three gods of the screen — Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep and Viola Davis — and one future god — Amy Adams — in a story about how unwavering belief in a god can warp your mind. Doubt opens in December.
watch it: “Pussy versus Printer”
Behold the awesome power of sound FX:
dream cast: hypothetical ‘Lethal Weapon’ remake
It’s Thursday, so it’s time to remake an 80s classic TV show or movie with an all-new cast. This week: Lethal Weapon, the 1987 flick that — along with Die Hard the next year — kicked off a new ethos in action movies of more humor, more violence, and more FX. (If you have a … more…
British box office: ‘Pineapple Express’ opens at No. 1
You may have noticed that I’ve started running down (in the “recent screenings and hot movies” sidebar to the right) what’s at the top of the U.K. box office, and that I’ve been adding links to Region 2 DVDs on Amazon U.K. and listing new Region 2 releases in the “new on dvd” sidebar. It’s … more…
