Month: November 2009

watch it: “2012: It’s a Disaster!!!”

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Because I cannot get enough of razzin’ 2012 (like here): Why aren’t the people who make the actual movies as clever as the fans who make fun of them? Recommended by Muzz in comments — thank you, Muzz — and because, as Hank Graham also noted in comments, 2012 is going to be supplying glorious … more…

trailer break: ‘Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans’

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Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Sometimes… good cops go bad. Beautiful: “What are these iguanas doing on my coffee table?” –Nicolas Cage. “There ain’t no iguanas.” –Val Kilmer. And: “Shoot him again — his soul is still dancing.” –Nicolas Cage. I think I’ve got some entries in the year’s worst dialogue… or … more…

the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Robsessed’

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I actually feel bad for this guy. I think he had no idea what he was in for with Twilight: The exclusive, Access-All-Areas pass inside the Life of Hollywood’s Hottest New Talent….. Robert Pattinson After clinching “Top Male Hottie” at the Teen Choice Awards, winning “Breakthrough Performance” and “Best Kiss” awards from MTV Movies for … more…

The Box (review)

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It’s a box. A cardboard box. Frank Langella brings it to your door, and inside is the Pop-o-matic of Death, and you either push the big red button under the plastic dome, in which case someone you don’t know dies and you get a cool million in a briefcase, or you don’t, in which you don’t get a movie made about you. Resisting the Moral Dilemma? No movie for you!

my week at the movies: ‘2012,’ ‘Women in Trouble,’ ‘The Strip,’ ‘A Single Man,’ ‘The Missing Person,’ ‘Nine,’ ‘Everybody’s Fine,’ ‘Serious Moonlight’

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Woo-hoo! It’s the end of the world — again — as Roland Emmerich knows it, and I feel fine. Oh, there can be no question that this is crap, but will 2012 (opens in the U.S. and the U.K. on November 13) be glorious crap? I think it might be. I hope it might be. … more…