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Slow week for me. I’ll try for Son of Rambow [opens limited May 2] again — I was supposed to see it last month, but the screening got cancelled. Then the one I rescheduled for this week got cancelled. Then it got uncancelled. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that it stays uncancelled. On that same … more…
10,000 B.C. The guy who brought us aliens blowing up the White House in Independence Day now brings us cavemen chasing down woolly mammoths across the plains of the last ice age. I hear hunting the beasts is easier when the UFOs round them up for you. (my review) College Road Trip Martin Lawrence takes … more…
I’m really hoping to get a kick out of 10,000 B.C. [opens wide March 7], because I loved sabertooth tigers and giant sloths and woolly mammoths and all those Ice Age creatures when I was a kid. It’s be nice to see a decent movie set in that period. I don’t honestly think this is … more…
Sometimes, ya just gotta scream. Media by Numbers, the home of “lead box-office analyst Paul Dergarabedian [who] has been the industry’s most widely respected and widely quoted expert for nearly 15 years,” a site that purports to offer us “unique insights… [e]xpert commentary and analysis…”, has this to say about this past weekend’s box office: … more…
So, Semi-Pro won the weekend box office race, but it can only be considered a flop, with receipts way down from Ferrell flicks like Blades of Glory and Talladega Nights. The real story is a lot worse than we know, though. As idiotic as Semi-Pro is and as poorly as it performed this weekend, things … more…
Semi-Pro Will Ferrell is a basketball player with hoop dreams of NBA stardom and a huge white-boy fro. It’s funny, see, cuz he’s a white guy actin’ all black. Also, some say there’s a funny joke about masturbation. Alert the media. (my review) Penelope Usually it’s the guys in romantic comedies who are the pigs, … more…
So it turns out people are stabbing one another for no reason at showings of the horror movie The Signal, which is about people stabbing one another for no reason. What isn’t widely known is that this kind of thing happens all the time, and not just with horror movies inspiring people to go on … more…
Maxim magazine got itself in a tiny bit of hot water this week when it published a review of the new Black Crowes album without anyone actually having listened to it. Maxim called the review — which gave the album two and a half stars out of five — “an educated guess.” Peter Angelos, the … more…
Aw, crap, I meant to remind you earlier that the wonderful documentary The Gates — which I reviewed when I saw it at the Tribeca Film Festival last spring — debuted on HBO tonight at 10pm Eastern. Remember the orange flags that artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude covered Central Park in a couple years back? Those … more…
Slowish week. I bailed on three of the movies I was supposed to see last week — I had them all scheduled for Thursday, and then I was too busy and too lazy to leave the house. I caught up with Married Life and CJ7 yesterday, and Paranoid Park I’ll see next week. I keep … more…
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