watch it: “Victoria Jackson: ‘There’s A Communist Living in the White House!!’”
This isn’t a joke or a parody. Victoria Jackson, Crazy Person, is totally serious here: (via Jezebel)
North American box office: go ask ‘Alice,’ cuz she’s 10 feet tall
Impossible things: 1. Alice in Wonderland: $116.1 million (NEW) 2. Brooklyn’s Finest: $13.4 million (NEW) 3. Shutter Island: $13.2 million (3rd week; drops 42%) 4. Cop Out: $9.3 million (2nd week; drops 49%) 5. Avatar: $8.1 million actual numbers, not estimates This was the biggest March weekend ever, led by Alice, the biggest March opener … more…
Fish Tank (review)
Some viewers may be turned off by the raw fury of 15-year-old Mia, but they’re probably the ones who need to see this marvelously disturbing film most…
trailer break: ‘Harry Brown’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… They wanted to call it Dirty Harry, but that was already taken. Looks like vigilante violence is now the cool thing for oldsters, too. Fun for the whole family! Harry Brown played theatrically in the U.K. last autumn, and is available for preorder on DVD in Region … more…
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘The Second Best Science Fiction Movie Ever Made’
It says so right there on the box: “Scarier than Wall-E!” After years of living in a utopian alien society where they both amassed tremendous power, two feuding groups of human astronauts briefly return to Earth and begin duking it out to determine who will ultimately govern their perfect planet. Blending tongue-in-cheek humor with spirited … more…
question of the day: John Hughes’ unproduced script: produce it, or not?
The Hollywood Reporter revealed, in the wake of the Oscar tribute to John Hughes on Sunday night, that there exists, in that ghostly nethworld of Unproduced Scripts, one last story from the filmmaker waiting for its moment on the screen… or not. The script, titled Grisbys Go Broke, is apparently about “a wealthy Chicago family … more…
my week at the movies: ‘IMAX: Hubble 3D,’ ‘Green Zone,’ ‘Remember Me,’ ‘She’s Out of My League’
They sent a big-ass camera into space, and now we get to see some pretty pictures in IMAX: Hubble 3D (opens in the U.S. and Canada on March 19; no U.K. release date has been announced). Apparently the astronauts also fixed the Hubble Space Telescope while they were up there — they didn’t just goof … more…
female directors barely exist…
…the joke of enlightened sexism, and more. Yup, it’s The Week in Women — so late that it’s last week’s edition — my regular column over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Enjoy.
watch it: American ‘Spaced’ pilot clips
No. No no no. No. Oh, this is painful. Spaced so does not need to be remade. Certainly not this badly. Why? Why would they do this? This is so wrong. Simon Pegg thinks so too. Fortunately, it appears to have been trashed. Score one for common sense and basic human decency.
‘Caprica’ blogging: “Know Thy Enemy”
Lots of spoilers! assumes you’ve seen the episode!
