Sex and the City 2 (review)
Thank Jimmy Choo for feminism! Am I right, ladies? I mean, not the nasty hairy feminism that’s all about equal pay and publicly subsidized day care and all that nonsense…
Month: May 2010
new this week in U.S., Canadian, and U.K. theaters: ‘Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time,’ ‘Sex and the City 2,’ ‘The Losers,’ ‘[REC] 2,’ more
U.S. AND CANADA/OPENING WIDE Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time: It’s tanking in the U.K., and now it gets a shot at tanking in North America. [trailer] review to come If you can’t make it to the multiplex, try: • Big Trouble in Little China (1986): In which Kurt Russell goes up against an … more…
trailer break: ‘The Oath’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Yesterday, I wrote about how filmmaker Laura Poitras has been targeted by the federal government because of her work investigating and critiquing the U.S.’s prosecution of the “war on terror.” This is her latest film. It’s easy to see why it might make the feds uncomfortable, but … more…
question of the day: Tim Burton’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ is a billion-dollar movie: why?
Today, Tim Burton’s baroque and pointless adaptation of Alice in Wonderland will cross the $1 billion mark in worldwide box office receipts, as The Hollywood Reporter noted the other day. It’s notable, too, as the first of the billionaire movies to have opened not in the summer season or at Christmastime but in spring. (The … more…
watch it: “Tea Party PSA (FreedomWorks) from D.C. Douglas”
Remember D.C. Douglas, the voiceover actor who was fired from GEICO after he left a nasty (and admittedly juvenile) voicemail for teabagger org FreedomWorks? He’s back, and his satire a lot sharper now: (via Americablog)
wtf: documentary filmmaker’s notes copied by government agents
Filmmaker Laura Poitras makes a documentary called The Oath about Abu Jandal, who was once Osama Bin Laden’s bodyguard and is now a cab driver in Yemen. So of course she’s now probably on all sorts of government watchlists, to the point where she often has troubled getting on an airplane. She’s a journalist, mind. … more…
poster convergence: ‘I Am Love’ and ‘The Little Mermaid’
It’d good to be the queen… We rarely see people sitting in movie posters, perhaps because it indicates a level of inaction that it is inadvisable to suggest regarding most movies, which are supposed to be exciting and in motion. And yet, there’s a kind of power suggested by these two seated women. Tilda Swinton … more…
trailer break: ‘Get Him to the Greek’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I know I’m probably setting myself up for disappointment. Because though the provenance of this film — from the same people who brought us Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Yes Man and Superbad — does not inspire confidence in me, there’s something about this trailer that makes me … more…
question of the day: What about those last images in Lost of the crashed plane on the beach?
Yes, it’s one more Lost post, one more instance of me talking more about a show I said I was done talking about. Hey: it’s my site. I was intrigued this morning to come across a post at the L.A. Times blog Show Tracker about those final shots of the Lost finale. You know, the … more…
omg: Neil Gaiman turns in his ‘Doctor Who’ script
From Neil Gaiman’s own Twitpic feed: That’s Gaiman on the right, Steven Moffat in the middle, and Richard Curtis (who will also be contributing a script to an upcoming series of Doctor Who) on the left. (Thanks to the many readers, including Kat and Keith, who sent me this via email and Facebook.) That’s pretty … more…
