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There’s a legal dispute in progress over the rights to Dick Tracy. You know, the hard-boiled crime fighter your grandfather read in the funny papers when he was a kid: Dick Tracy has landed in a Delaware bankruptcy court, as Chicago Tribune parent Tribune Co.’s Tribune Media Services filed suit late Thursday to clarify that … more…
It’s the end of the world as we know it, but the multiplex is fine: 1. Knowing: $24.6 million (NEW) 2. I Love You, Man: $17.8 million (NEW) 3. Duplicity: $13.9 million (NEW) 4. Race to Witch Mountain: $12.8 million (2nd week; drops 48%) 5. Watchmen: $6.8 million (3rd week; drops 62%) actual numbers, not … more…
It’s the little things, really, that make this job so satisfying. Who’d have thunk that when I made reference to, in my review of Knowing, “the nitwits who wrote those preposterous Left Behind apocalyptic end-times fantasies,” that it would provoke such outrage? Okay, perhaps I should have known what I was in for. Reader “Todd” … more…
Ray Griggs, creator of the abysmal Super Capers, previously made this short as a promo for his vision of a film trilogy about the rise and fall of Lucifer. Not a bad idea for a movie trilogy, and this certainly looks much more impressive than Super Capers. Well, until it starts to look like a … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Mike Tyson so repulses me that I don’t know if I want to sit through a movie about him, particularly one that appears, from this trailer, to be geared toward letting him justify himself. Just the fact that the film exists feels like a bit of a … more…
If you’re not in the U.K. you may not have heard, but Jade Goody died yesterday. If you’re not in the U.K., you’re saying, “Who?” She was the star of an early incarnation of the British reality show Big Brother in 2002, and managed to stretch her 15 minutes of dubious fame into seven years … more…
obsession: the plays of William Shakespeare (cuz he never goes out of style) boyfriend: Clive Owen in Duplicty psyched: X-Men Origins: Wolverine (it’s gonna suck but Hugh Jackman will be half naked through half of it) girl crush: Amy Adams in Sunshine Cleaning dreading: X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Hugh Jackman will be half naked through half … more…
This brutally stupid superhero sendup consistently mistakes wholesale theft for creative cleverness.
I wish *Flash of Genius* were’t quite so staid, because it tells an important story, and one the likes of which we hear less and less of the more necessary they become
Lots of spoilers! Assumes you’ve seen the episode!
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