trailer break: ‘Priest 3D’
It looks like a joke, something invented to poke fun at the excesses and ludicrousies of comic book storytelling…
Year: 2011
question of the day: Have you ever lied about liking a movie, and if so, why?
I do think that any film critic who lies about his or her reaction to a movie needs to find different work. But there would seem to be no reason why a member of the moviegoing public wouldn’t lie about liking a film…
watch it: “School House Rock – No More Kings”
This cartoon may well be part of why I have no great affection for the British royal family.
omg omg omg: Lee Pace is in ‘The Hobbit’
Okay, that means that David Tennant won’t be the Elven King. But still: *squee*
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: “10 Moments from Doctor Who Scarier than The Silence”
Well, the moments are Doctor Who adjacent, anyway… and very British — I don’t get much of what’s here. It is scary, though…
Hanna (review)
Joe Wright makes sure his story looks great — and sounds great, with its aurally spectacular Chemical Brothers score — but it’s an empty experience, a Frankenstein story with no heft, indeed with little apparent awareness of the classic tale it is evolved from.
trailer break: ‘After the Apocalypse’
The title makes it sound like a cheesy Syfy Saturday night movie, but it’s a real-life horror story about how the Soviet Union nuked its own people…
question of the day: How will Hollywood react to the death of Osama bin Laden?
Be afraid: The bin-Laden-is-dead movie may well be the cinematic equivalent of what we saw on the streets of New York and Washington on Sunday night: guys in baseball caps waving giant American flags and hooting “USA! USA! USA!”…
terrible movie quotes: ‘Scream 4’ (contains a minor spoiler)
“One generation’s tragedy is another one’s joke.” –Dewey (David Arquette), and others…
terrible movie quotes: ‘Arthur’
“Wash your winkie.” –Hobson (Helen Mirren), to Arthur (Russell Brand)
