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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. Smokin’ aces: IFC Films tells us about the film, part of a trilogy: Sure to be one of the cinematic events of the year, … more…
Hustler is going to produce a porno version of Avatar, according to Empire. Or perhaps because everyone really does want to screw a Na’vi. This has been your WTF Thought for the Day.
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I know I’m dating myself when I say that I don’t watch Saturday Night Live because it hasn’t been funny since about 1984. And this kind of crap is why. It really pisses me off to see SNL making fun of my longtime boyfriend MacGyver like this. … more…
So, I watched the 1985 BBC miniseries Edge of Darkness [Amazon U.S.] [Amazon Canada] [Amazon U.K.] upon which this new movie of the same name (opens in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. on January 29) is based, and I quite enjoyed it. Of course, it’s a six-hour character-driven drama, and the new movie — … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… It’s Taken meets Die Hard! It’s the first action comedy of the War on Terror! Take that, bad guys! From Paris with Love opens in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. on February 5.
Here I’ll highlight here all the studio films in 2010 I won’t get to see before they open because they’re not being screened for New York critics. I’ll also link to my review, if I do subsequently cover the film anyway. Hard to believe we’ve gotten all the way to the third week of January … more…
The third Transformers movie “won’t be as robot-heavy and there will be fewer explosions,” according to the Los Angeles Times blog Hero Complex, which quotes Michael Bay thusly: “It gets much more into the robot character.” Or perhaps because Megatron secretly longs to dance upon the stage, but fears how this will impact his relationship … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Oh, please, not another Nicholas Sparks movie. The romantic confession in the rain! The snuggling on the beach! The wondering who’s gonna live and who’s gonna die and who’s gonna be sad, so so terribly terribly sad when it happens! Lasse Hallström sure has come a long … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… This week, the Toronto Film Critics Association named this film, by Denis Villeneuve, the best Canadian film of 2009. It’s about the mass shooting at the Montreal Polytechnique school in 1989 in which the shooter targeted women studying to be engineers, since he believed that feminism had … more…
Sherlock Holmes holds strong, too: 1. Avatar: £4.8 million (4th week; drops 20%) 2. Sherlock Holmes: £2 million (3rd week; drops 41%) 3. Daybreakers: £1.3 million (NEW) 4. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel: £1.2 million (3rd week; drops 50%) 5. It’s Complicated: £1.1 million (NEW) (actual numbers, not estimates) New releases couldn’t touch the … more…
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