Five Minutes of Heaven (review)
After a disastrous foray into Hollywood, German director Oliver Hirschbiegel returns to the realms of uneasy morality he explored in his portrait of Bunker Hitler in *Downfall*…
Month: November 2009
trailer break: ‘Everybody’s Fine’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… It’s Planes, Trains and Automobiles, but sad (or sadder), and with Robert DeNiro. Hopefully not doing his crazy-dad Meet the Parents schtick. It looks like not, but you never know. Everybody’s Fine opens in the U.S. on December 4, and in the U.K. on February 19, 2010.
2012 (review)
It’s kind of awesome, the film’s self-involvement. This isn’t really a movie: it’s more director/FX-mad wannabe supervillain Roland Emmerich calling out every other disaster film that has ever come before… including his own. Aliens blowing up the Empire State Builder? What piker came up with that?
question of the day: Is chimp-attack victim Charla Nash being exploited by Oprah and other news organizations?
Charla Nash, the woman who earlier this year was mauled by a chimp and lost most of her face in the attack appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show yesterday to talk with Oprah — as much as her devastated face will allow her to talk — and to reveal the extent of her injuries. Perhaps … more…
U.K. box office: ‘A Christmas Carol’ not so jolly
Probably the Brits were even more pissed about the trashing of Dickens: 1. A Christmas Carol: £1.9 million (NEW) 2. Michael Jackson’s This Is It: £1.4 million (2nd week; drops 52%) 3. Up: £1.3 million 4. The Men Who Stare at Goats: £1.2 million (NEW) 5. The Fourth Kind: £.85 million (NEW) (actual numbers, not … more…
bias update: November 11
obsession: Doctor Who (and eager for “The Waters of Mars”) boyfriend: Ben Mansfield in Primeval (where did this cutie spring from?) psyched: Up in the Air (more George Clooney? yes, please) girl crush: Emily Blunt in Young Victoria (it’s good to be the queen) dreading: The Twilight Saga: New Moon (vampires who don’t suck suck) … more…
caption this! image from ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’
Fun for Wednesdays! We look at an image from an upcoming movie or TV show and write snarky, witty, or otherwise entertaining captions for it. No prizes, it’s just for fun. OMG OMG OMG New Moon is gonna be here next week OMG OMG OMG: What’s it all about? Following Bella Swan’s ill-fated 18th birthday … more…
watch it: “Doctor Who: Dreamland First Clip!”
I hadn’t heard about this CGI-animated version of Doctor Who till I ran across a posting last week on TV Squad… and frankly, what I see here I like even less than the traditionally animated “The Infinite Quest.” Yea to a Doctor Who story set in the United States — at Area 51, no less. … more…
WTF?: Twitter feed to become TV show; apocalypse edges nearer
Supposedly, 29-year-old Justin Halpern recently moved back in with his parents, and has been tweeting the “wisdom” of his 73-year-old father at shitmydadsays. Sometimes his father says things that are mildly amusing, such as: “The baby will talk when he talks, relax. It ain’t like he knows the cure for cancer and he just ain’t … more…
trailer break: ‘The Missing Person’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… As I tweeted after I saw this last night, this is one of the rare movies that shoots for a modern noir feeling and actually achieves it. And this trailer is an excellent representation of that. The Missing Person opens in the U.S. on November 20; no … more…
