Year: 2009

my week at the movies: ‘Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America,’ ‘Alien Trespass,’ ‘Miss March,’ ‘The Last House on the Left’ (and ‘Race to Witch Mountain’ too)

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While much of the rest of the NYC critical community will be attending a screening of Race to Witch Mountain tonight (here’s why I won’t), I’ll be seeing Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America (opens in New York City on March 13; no U.K. release date has been announced), an ultralow-budget epic about two … more…

MaryAnn wearing a red nose at BAM

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I attended a performance of The Bridge Project’s production of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Friday night. And here I am outside the BAM Harvey theater wearing my Red Nose Day red nose. I’m doing something funny for money all week as part of the U.K.’s Red Nose Day … more…

‘Watchmen’’s opening weekend: $55.7 million (estimated)

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The weekend estimates are in, and it looks as if the chatter around Watchmen’s performance is going to go negative. With a weekend take of $55.7 million (that may change slightly when the final numbers come in later), the handwringing and questioning analysis and careful couching has already begun. “‘Watchmen’ falls short of expected box … more…

question of the day: Should it be illegal for paparazzi to photograph celebrities’ children?

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An article at whiotv.com captures Julia Roberts’s rage at celebrity photographers: “It should be against the law to take a picture of a celebrity’s child,” the Oscar winner told Allure magazine, adding that she doesn’t know “what is going on with this crazy, bloodthirsty child hunt.” Roberts said that she and her husband, Danny Moder, … more…