time-traveling husbands are implausible, but aliens who like cat food aren’t?
Plus: Roger Friedman just now noticed how Hollywood hates women? Yup, it’s another installment of The Week in Women, over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Enjoy.
Month: August 2009
watch it: “So Your Cat Wants A Massage?”
Cat video Friday takes a strange turn: So there are crazy cat ladies after all! Not that there’s anything inherently weird about massaging your cat — no, seriously, I mean that — but there’s something not right about this chick. “Who’s the best cat in the United States?” Who limits their love geographically like that?
U.K. box office: ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ jumps in at No. 1
But it was a slow weekend overall last weekend: 1. The Time Traveler’s Wife: £1.4 million (NEW) 2. Aliens in the Attic: £1.3 million (NEW) 3. G-Force: £.94 million (3rd week; drops 23%) 4. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: £.93 million 5. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra: £.83 million (2nd week; drops 53%) … more…
screencap Friday: what the flick? #85
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.
trailer break: ‘Law Abiding Citizen’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I mentioned a couple days ago, when I featured the trailer for Gamer, that it sounded like maybe Gerard Butler’s American accent had improved dramatically over its dreadfulness in The Ugly Truth. And here we can tell that yes, he’s been working with a voice coach or … more…
August 21: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but you’re in the Nazi-killing business, and business is booming. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, did you see Inglourious Basterds this weekend?” … more…
question of the day: Can any movie possibly live up to ‘Avatar’’s advance hype?
The movie won’t open till just before Christmas, but already James Cameron’s Avatar is being hyped to levels that it seems impossible it could actually meet. We already know, for instance, that this is the movie Cameron has been actively working to drive cinematic technology forward in the last 15 years in order to make: … more…
Post Grad (review)
People have names like Ryden Malby only in the movies. And we’re only expected to like people like Ryden Malby in the movies… though I don’t see why we should give in to that kind of peer pressure.
Shorts (review)
I’ll give Robert Rodriguez this: He follows his own vision. But so did Ed Wood.
trailer break: ‘Nation’s Pride’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Fooled ya: this is the “trailer” for the fake film-within-the-film in Inglourious Basterds. It’s meant to have been directed by Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister for propaganda, but actually it’s directed by Eli Roth, who made the low-budget Cabin Fever and then helped invent torture porn with … more…
