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If you regularly check my on-the-fly ranking of new theatrical releases as I see them, then my top 10 movies of 2009 are no surprise: I shuffled a few titles around a bit last month, but the films ranked in the top 10 for 2009 haven’t changed much in months. (The 2009 ranking is here; … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I know I’m dating myself when I say that I don’t watch Saturday Night Live because it hasn’t been funny since about 1984. And this kind of crap is why. It really pisses me off to see SNL making fun of my longtime boyfriend MacGyver like this. … more…
I’ve got a piece up over at Film.com running down the top five things I’d do if I ran a movie studio. Number 1: For every $100 million-plus movie my studio produces, I take another $50 mill; I’d divide it evenly among 10 young, hungry filmmakers based on their scripts, their previous experience, and their … more…
Sometimes, the best defense against the Dark Arts is to care: See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
So, I watched the 1985 BBC miniseries Edge of Darkness [Amazon U.S.] [Amazon Canada] [Amazon U.K.] upon which this new movie of the same name (opens in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. on January 29) is based, and I quite enjoyed it. Of course, it’s a six-hour character-driven drama, and the new movie — … more…
The American television network Fox is developing an American version of Torchwood. The Hollywood Reporter has the gall to frame it: Huge news for sci-fi fans: Fox is developing a stateside version of the U.K. hit series “Torchwood.” Yeah, “huge news” like Hitler invading Poland is “huge news.” It gets worse: Unlike U.S. adaptations that … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… It’s Taken meets Die Hard! It’s the first action comedy of the War on Terror! Take that, bad guys! From Paris with Love opens in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. on February 5.
Here I’ll highlight here all the studio films in 2010 I won’t get to see before they open because they’re not being screened for New York critics. I’ll also link to my review, if I do subsequently cover the film anyway. Hard to believe we’ve gotten all the way to the third week of January … more…
Oh, I can’t decide which one I hate more! Could it be God Send Me a Man, from Tyler Perry’s brother Emmbre Perry? Stacy is a promiscuous 20-something woman who is quick to judge those around her and has nothing but bad luck in love. One day Stacy decides to re-evaluate her life in the … more…
[spoiler for The Book of Eli… sorta] For the first little while as I was watching The Book of Eli, I find myself thinking, “If the book is a Bible, I’m gonna scream.” Not — as reader TwistedKestrel suggested in comments — because I automatically hate any movie with a Christian theme, but because that … more…
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