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Today’s Hollywood has no place for personality, concludes Henry Stewart at The L Magazine. Or perhaps because a movie about a talking animal that doesn’t come with its own Happy Meal is just too weird. (Perhaps not coincidentally, Fantastic Mr. Fox did get the Happy Meal treatment in the U.K.… where it had grossed, before … more…
UPDATE: Looks like Daybreakers will screen after all. I’ll see it tonight. Pity me. It’s January, and I have to go to the movies. The Spy Next Door (opens in the U.S. and Canada on January 15; no U.K. release date has been announced yet) is from director Brian Levant, who is to cinema what … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Really? A Wild Hogs reference? I will give the trailer the “What color is Michael Jackson?” joke — that’s pretty funny. I’ll even give it the Back to the Future/Bill and Ted retro nostalgia vibe. But the Twitter/Viagra joke has got to go. Hot Tub Time Machine … more…
The purple! It burns! Barbie™ takes flight in her first original princess fairy tale movie, Barbie™ and the Magic of Pegasus. Princess Annika (Barbie™) discovers adventure when she is befriended by Brietta – a magnificent winged horse – that flies her to the beautiful Cloud Kingdom. Annika has only three days to break the spell … more…
Relatively big news yesterday from the realm of entertainment journalism and social networking: Flixster acquired Rotten Tomatoes. The two sites will continue to operate separately, but clearly some integration is in the offing. Says Flixster co-founder and CEO Joe Greenstein, quoted at a post at WebNewser: To use movie terminology, we think this is a … more…
Tons of spoilers. Don’t read until you’ve seen the episode.
The last man to be here was never heard from again. He won’t be back this way till 2010… (h/t to Ken via email)
Sandra Bullock was the top moneymaking star of 2009, according to a poll of theater owners and film buyers. Or perhaps because The Proposal satisfied the unrequited romantic dreams of a generation of lonely women. This has been your WTF Thought for the Day. [my All About Steve review]
I rank 2010’s theatrical releases on the fly…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… In my The Week in Women column this weekend, I despaired that Naomi Wolf had chosen Sex and the City’s protagonist Carrie Bradshaw as an icon of the just-ended decade… a positive icon! a feminist icon! And then I see this trailer. This is feminist? Carrie looks … more…
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