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Someone wanted to know what Snowpocalypse 2010 was like up in my corner of the Bronx, so I wandered around and took some photos this afternoon. It’s not like the winter wonderland images of snow-blanketed Manhattan you see in the movies. When it snows in NYC, it’s pretty for about 10 minutes, and then it’s … more…
And it’s nowhere near done yet: 1. Avatar: £4.3 million 2. The Princess and the Frog: £2.2 million (NEW in wide release) 3. Astro Boy: £1.09 million (NEW) 4. Invictus: £1.07 million (NEW) 5. Sherlock Holmes: £.78 million (actual numbers, not estimates) After last weekend, Avatar is now officially the biggest movie ever in the … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… That image of the city folding in on itself is one of the most mindblowing things I’ve seen on film. The notion of “stealing an idea” is surely going to take on a whole new meaning when it’s the guy — Christopher Nolan — who created Memento … more…
Mary McNamara, the television critic at the Los Angeles Times, today offers some advice to the producers of the Oscars regarding ratings. Her reasoning: Last weekend’s Super Bowl drew a huge audience of more than 106 million people, making it the most watched broadcast in U.S. history. Since the Oscar telecast have been hurting in … more…
Seriously? 1. Dear John: $30.5 million (NEW) 2. Avatar: $22.9 million 3. From Paris with Love: $8.2 million (NEW) 4. Edge of Darkness: $6.9 million (2nd week; drops 60%) 5. Tooth Fairy: $6.6 million (3rd week; drops 34%) actual numbers, not estimates Really, North America? Dear John? This is the movie that knocks Avatar off … more…
…so I let the publicist know that I’m not gonna get to Thursday’s screening of Bong Joon-ho’s Mother, which I’d previously RSVPed for. It’s weird living here in the North Bronx, surrounded by parkland on three sides. It’s invariably 5 to 10 degrees cooler than it is in Manhattan — which is nice in the … more…
*Lost* doesn’t make much sense while you’re watching it. My ramblings will surely make even less sense if you haven’t seen the episode… and something may get spoiled for you that you don’t want spoiled. You have been warned.
When I said, “The Muppets are on fire these days,” I didn’t mean it literally…
Fun for Wednesdays! We look at an image from an upcoming movie or TV show and write snarky, witty, or otherwise entertaining captions for it. No prizes, it’s just for fun. When someone asks if you’re a god, you say yes: 20th Century Fox tells us about the movie: Trouble-prone Percy Jackson is having problems … more…
People, for no discernible reason, are putting Photoshop to purposes for which It Was Not Intended to create dubious works of surrealistic pop-culture art featuring, in the same composition, 1) Tom Selleck, 2) a waterfall, and 3) a sandwich. This is occurring at a Web site known as Selleck Waterfall Sandwich. Because “Penguin Knob Warbler” … more…
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