the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘A Grandpa for Christmas’
FYI: The grandpa is Ernest Borgnine.
weekend box office: Max Payne kicks chihuahua butt… a little
Well, at least Beverly Hills Chihuahua is dropping, however slowly: 1. Max Payne: $18 million (NEW) 2. Beverly Hills Chihuahua: $11.2 million (dropping 36% in its 3rd week) 3. The Secret Life of Bees: $11 million (NEW) 4. W.: $10.6 million (NEW) 5. Eagle Eye: $7.3 million (4th week) Eighteen million isn’t too bad for … more…
trailer break: ‘Passengers’
Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Sony appears to be trying to bury this one with a limited release in the U.S. (it opens on 100 screens this Friday, and no word about any press screening in NYC, which, at this point, probably means there won’t be one), which is kinda weird. … more…
watch it: “John Cleese on Sarah Palin”
Michael Palin for vice president:
my week at the movies: ‘Synecdoche, New York,’ ‘Pride and Glory,’ ‘Changeling,’ ‘High School Musical 3 Senior Year,’ ‘ I’ve Loved You So Long’
I’ve already told you why I simply cannot wait for Synecdoche, New York (opens limited in the U.S. on October 24; premieres in the U.K. at the London Film Festival on October 28), and now the moment has arrived. Will Charlie Kaufman confirm his place in the pantheon of The Movies? Oh please oh please… … more…
W. (review)
Surely this is the greatest satire of the American presidency ever made for film. It’s kinda like *Being There,* but far more terrifying: instead of a wise, gentle idiot becoming president, here it’s an incurious, perpetually adolescent idiot who ascends to the highest office in the land. Surely this would be a horror story if it were true…
satellite dish on thatched roof
An explanation of this, and lots more pix, over at MaryAnnJohanson.com.
it’s true what they say about England
The food is terrible: The weather is atrocious: The people are rude: Not the best photo ever, that second-from-bottom one, but it’s me and my travel pal Bonnie in the middle sandwiched by David, on the far left, and Harry, on the far right, bartenders at Bar Room in Stratford-upon-Avon, which we decided to make … more…
trailer break: ‘Easy Virtue’
Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Based on a Noel Coward play, and starring Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes (the cutie Prince Caspian), Kristin Scott Thomas, and Colin Firth? How long will we have to wait to see this in the U.S.? Easy Virtue opens in the U.K. on November 7; no U.S. … more…
screencap Friday: what the flick? #41
Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from one of the DVDs in my collection (and it’s definitely from a movie, not a TV show). Guess the movie for fun and, well, fun. No prizes, just bragging rights. But hey: one guess per comment — no fair hogging all the guesses.
