question of the day: Was Fox right to change the title of the upcoming film Neighborhood Watch?
It seems to me like an overreaction on Fox’s part…
Ben Stiller
We Bought a Zoo (review)
This week on We Bought a Zoo: It’s hilarious chaos all around for the Mee family as mopey teen Dylan accidentally leaves a delivery crate of snakes open…
Tower Heist movie review: Bastille on the Hudson
For a film critic, there are few pleasures more satisfying than ripping into a bad movie. But one of those few is discovering that a film that you were expecting to hate — a movie that you had no doubts whatsoever would turn out to be utterly awful — turns out to be wonderful.
question of the day: What do you dread most about Brett Ratner’s upcoming Oscars ceremony?
The homophobia? The racism? The sexism? The fact that he may just blow up the auditorium in a fit of impotent childish rage?
Tower Heist (trailer)
It’s funny cuz the black guy is the criminal. It’s funny cuz the Hispanic guy is stupid…
Little Fockers (review)
It mystifies me as I try to fathom just what the hell an actor with the stature of Robert DeNiro is doing in a movie that finds the height of its humor in a child’s projectile vomiting and four-hour boners.
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)…
new this week in U.S., Canadian, and U.K. theaters: ‘The A-Team,’ ‘The Karate Kid,’ ‘Letters to Juliet,’ ‘Brooklyn’s Finest,’ more
U.S. AND CANADA/OPENING WIDE The A-Team: A stirring drama of wrongly convicted patriots who get mad and kick some ass. If you can’t make it to the multiplex, try: • The A-Team (1983-1987): The entire series is newly available in a cool new box set. • The Great Escape (1963): This Steve McQueen military classic … more…
Repo Men (review)
“Christ, have you seen what these assholes are doing with the idea I so generously bestowed upon them?” She didn’t quite throw *Repo Men* at me — for which I was grateful, because an enraged muse can hurl something as physically nebulous but as psychically powerful as a story with the force of a tornado — but she was about to if I didn’t calm her down.
trailer break: ‘Greenberg’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Rich white boy angst! I mean, the Ben Stiller character has gotta be rich if he can afford to do nothing for a while, right? What a luxury! So far, the most interesting this about this movie is the kerfluffle over New York Press critic Armond White, … more…
