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For the last six months or so, I realize as I look back, I’ve been in some sort of larval state as I try to figure out how I can make at least some of what I’ve been doing here since 1997 continue to work in an environment in which, we’re told, film criticism is … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Heh: Girls are dumb. They can’t even count to three. Heh heh. OMG, it’s like a 1992 action movie crashed into an idiotic rom-com. Secret agents at the wedding? High-larious! Girls in hideous bridesmaids’ dresses screaming during a car chase? High-larious! Don’t let anyone tell you Tom … more…
And new releases fail to engage: 1. How to Train Your Dragon: $15.4 million 2. The Back-up Plan: $12.2 million (NEW) 3. Date Night: $10.5 million (3rd week; drops 37%) 4. The Losers: $9.4 million (NEW) 5. Kick-Ass: $9.3 million (2nd week; drops 53%) actual numbers, not estimates Ugh. It was ugly out there this … more…
I knew it! Stephen Hawking says aliens will want to enslave us and eat our brains, or maybe our sun, or something, and he’s, like, the smartest smart guy ever, so he should know, right? Then again… aliens can be cute: Or dangerous only insofar as they will expect you to buy them pints: Or … more…
I have no idea what a Justin Bieber is.
In case you haven’t already seen this… Everybody — even octopuses — love shiny objects. (Thanks to bronxbee for being the first to send me this.)
The overall affect is most like that of a screensaver…
…mostly behind the scenes for the moment, as I think about reinventing myself and this site for the criticism-is-dead era. One of the things to happen immediately: I’m dropping the “my week at the movies” posts. They never really garnered much interest, as far as I can determine. I suspect that some readers may be … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Paul Walker and Hayden Christensen in the same movie? Is that even legal? Shouldn’t audiences be protected from that kind of thing? And did I not just say that Zoe Saldana is in freakin’ everything at the moment? When does the girl sleep? This trailer makes me … more…
At long last, the filmed version of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Hamlet — starring David Tennant, with Patrick Stewart as Claudius — is arriving on American television, on PBS’s Great Performances: Shakespeare’s immortal “To be, or not to be” takes on a whole new meaning (and medium) as classical stage and screen actors David Tennant … more…
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