trailer break: ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’

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…

oh-no DVD of the week: ‘Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus’

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…

question of the day: How will the Flixster acquisition of Rotten Tomatoes change movie buzz online?

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…

trailer break: ‘Sex and the City 2’

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…

feminist insists she isn’t one…

…the meaning of Brittany Murphy; why Sex and the City is a poor icon for women… Yup, it’s The Week in Women, my regular column over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, returning from its holiday break. Enjoy.