Year: 2009
Duplicity movie review: good clean fluff
It’s not that I don’t like fluff: it’s that I don’t like dumb fluff. And yet clever fluff is so very rare. So of course I cheer a hearty “Hoorah!” for Duplicity.
trailer break: ‘Fast & Furious’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… “A lot has changed”? Nothing has changed! It’s the same movie over and over again — they even recycled the title this time! Is dropping the thes really enough to make sure people don’t confuse this with the first movie… or is keeping the title almost identical … more…
question of the day: Was Jon Stewart unfair to CNBC when he lambasted Jim Cramer?
It’s hard to believe that someone so prominent would be so willing to out himself in public as a big ol’ crybaby: NEW YORK, March 18 (Reuters) – NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker fired back at comedian Jon Stewart on Wednesday, saying it was “unfair” and “absurd” for the funnyman to criticize CNBC and … more…
WTF? Natasha Richardson 1963-2009
How do you go from talking and joking to brain dead? How do you go from healthy and vital to… not? You’re 45 years old and you slip in some snow and you’re dead? WTF? I mean, what kind of universe do we live in where this can happen? I understand the medical stuff, the … more…
U.K. box office: gone to the dogs with ‘Marley & Me’
The cute-puppy movie proves it doesn’t need a holiday weekend to win: 1. Marley & Me: £4.4 million (NEW) 2. Watchmen: £1.4 million (2nd week; drops 57%) 3. Gran Torino: £.82 million (4th week; drops 33%) 4. Slumdog Millionaire: £.76 million 5. The Young Victoria: £.63 million (2nd week; drops 38%) (actual numbers, not estimates) … more…
Battle in Seattle (review)
I’ve never been much impressed with Stuart Townsend as an actor, but with *Battle in Seattle,* his first film as writer-director-producer, I have enormous new respect for him as an artist and storyteller.
watch it: “Comic Relief – Mamma Mia – Dawn French – Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley – Part 1”
Part II is here. (It’s not too late to give some cash to Comic Relief — you could win some cool Red Nose Day gear from me.)
trailer break: ‘Monsters vs. Aliens’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Aren’t we the lucky duckies: we get a boob joke and a poop joke right in the trailer! Look, this concept has the potential to be genuinely funny and visually striking, but can we please declare a moratorium on poop jokes? I find it impossible to believe … more…
question of the day: What can we hope for from the just-greenlit ‘MacGyver’ movie?
The hypothetical MacGyver movie we fantasized about four months ago here is actually coming to fruition, according to CBC News: A big screen version of the long-running TV series MacGyver is in the works by New Line studio. “We think we’re a stick of chewing gum, a paper clip and an A-list writer away from … more…
