Month: August 2009
caption this! image from ‘Avatar’
Fun for Wednesdays! We look at an image from an upcoming movie and write snarky, witty, or otherwise entertaining captions for it. No prizes, it’s just for fun. Avatar is the long-awaited epic science fiction film from James Cameron that is going to change cinema forever, cure world hunger, and bring peace to the Middle … more…
more from Neill Blomkamp on ‘District 9’
I’m totally obsessed with District 9, and I don’t care who knows it. I haven’t been this gripped by a movie in years: it’s almost like being in love: I can’t wait to see it again. (I’m gonna have some time to kill on Thursday evening before my midnight show of The Final Destination, and … more…
trailer break: ‘Avatar’ teaser
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I always welcome a new James Cameron movie, and this looks pretty much like, you know, a James Cameron movie: I see flashes of Aliens in this, and The Abyss, and that’s fine. But I simply cannot conceive of the 3D being so mindblowing as to push … more…
Goodbye Solo (review)
He’s the best American filmmaker working today whom you’ve never heard of: Ramin Bahrani has the exquisite talent of making the ordinary and the mundane soar into realms of rarefied and unexpectedly moving drama.
I talk to ‘District 9’’s Sharlto Copley…
…over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Enjoy.
question of the day: Is Redbox going to kill Hollywood?
I’ve got a piece up over at Film.com about Redbox, the buck-a-day DVD rental kiosks you may have seen around your town in supermarkets and drugstores. Hollywood is terrified of Redbox’s success and is trying to hobble the company’s service: Warner Home Video and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment… are demanding that Redbox hold back … more…
North American box office: ‘Basterds’ is glorious
Bidness is boomin’ for the Nazi killers: 1. Inglourious Basterds: $38.1 million (NEW) 2. District 9: $18.2 million (2nd week; drops 51%) 3. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra: $12.2 million (3rd week; drops 45%) 4. The Time Traveler’s Wife: $9.7 million (2nd week; drops 42%) 5. Julie & Julia: $8.8 million (3rd week; drops … more…
watch it: ‘Doctor Who’ PBS pledge break from 1987
Oh my god… This is from California PBS station KVIE, but the pledge breaks were exactly the same on the other side of the continent for me on WLIW on Long Island. IO9 has more. Oh, the fannishness, it hurts.
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Fast Lane’
What? You say this looks an awful lot like Fast & Furious? Shame on you! Hollywood doesn’t cheat! Hollywood doesn’t rip off! My goodness, how suspicious-minded you are! A high speed chase on the freeways of Los Angeles reveals a turf war between two competing car theft rings. Lieutenant Baynes (Steven Bauer) decides to send … more…
