on my radar: opening 08.13.10 in U.S. and Canadian theaters
I really want to like *Eat Pray Love,* because I’m desperate for stories about women living their own lives for themselves, the way that stories about men almost always are allowed to be…
movie buzz
wtf: ‘The Other Guys’ insults Wall Street, which is nothing but kind and noble and beneficient
About those ‘Other Guys’ closing credits…
trailer break: ‘Made in Dagenham’
This is already getting Oscar buzz for Sally Hawkins…
trailer break: ‘Lottery Ticket’
I’m disappointed to see so little overt misogyny and blatant idiocy in this trailer…
cinematic roots of: ‘Middle Men’
In *Middle Men,* Luke Wilson invents porn on the Internet and then thinks it’s a bad idea, but no backsies, he’s stuck with the Russian mobsters who want his money and him dead… This flick sprang from (among other films)…
cinematic roots of: ‘Step Up 3D’
In *Step Up 3D,* street dancers in New York City meet other tough dancers in a battle to the death… or at least for the prize money to save their world from being foreclosed. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
cinematic roots of: ‘The Other Guys’
In *The Other Guys,* Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are ordinary NYPD detectives trying to move out of the shadow of two superstar detectives, while also trying not to kill each other. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
trailer break: ‘The Wind in the Willows’
I first heard about this teaser trailer when I stumbled across an article about how fans are mystified and more than a little outraged to see how dark and grim and Tim Burton-y is WETA’s adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s bright and jaunty book.
question of the day: Is James Bond dead?
*Entertainment Weekly* is suggesting, in its latest issue, that the Bond franchise may be dead…
does ‘Toy Story 3’ speak more to British audiences than ‘Inception’ does?
It’s interesting to see how *Inception* and *Toy Story 3* are battling it out at the U.K. box office…
