Year: 2010
screencap Friday: what the flick? #106
Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from a DVD… and just to make things harder for 2010, this one is from a TV show which may or may not be in my collection (it’s sooo much easier to do screengrabs now that Netflix is streaming to my computer). Guess the TV show — you don’t … more…
January 15: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, except the apocalypse has arrived, and you’ll be busy protecting your books from rampaging hoards of desperate readers. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, … more…
because karma really is a bitch
As a result of my review of The Spy Next Door, reader SD SD informs me via email: You are now officially cursed for using karma in your movie reviews. It doesn’t matter if you believe or don’t believe in curses. Anything bad that happens to you in your life you will would wonder what … more…
The Book of Eli (review)
Denzel was carrying the fire, right, Papa? Yes. The book was the fire? Yes. No. The boy wouldnt understand.
trailer break: ‘Polytechnique’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… This week, the Toronto Film Critics Association named this film, by Denis Villeneuve, the best Canadian film of 2009. It’s about the mass shooting at the Montreal Polytechnique school in 1989 in which the shooter targeted women studying to be engineers, since he believed that feminism had … more…
The Spy Next Door (review)
One wonders what sins Jackie Chan could have committed in a single lifetime to warrant having an abomination like this pathetic excuse for a movie weighing down his karma.
question of the day: What will the 10 Best Picture nominees be?
Last week, the members of the Online Film Critics Society were polled about which movies we thought will be the Oscar nominees for Best Picture — remember, there will be 10 this year — and these are the films we collectively predicted (in alphabetical order; links go to my reviews): Avatar The Blind Side An … more…
U.K. box office: ‘Avatar’ continues to steamroller the competition
Sherlock Holmes holds strong, too: 1. Avatar: £4.8 million (4th week; drops 20%) 2. Sherlock Holmes: £2 million (3rd week; drops 41%) 3. Daybreakers: £1.3 million (NEW) 4. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel: £1.2 million (3rd week; drops 50%) 5. It’s Complicated: £1.1 million (NEW) (actual numbers, not estimates) New releases couldn’t touch the … more…
because as Jon Gosselin comes, so goes the nation
Folks actually care whom Jon Gosselin is fucking this week, if the fact that People magazine profiled his otherwise anonymous and unceleb-a-riffic new girlfriend is any evidence. Or because privileged society girls who totally plan to go to law school know something about publicity whores that we don’t. This has been your WTF Thought for … more…
