Tower Heist (trailer)
It’s funny cuz the black guy is the criminal. It’s funny cuz the Hispanic guy is stupid…
Brett Ratner
Your Highness (review)
It’s one thing to say that Hollywood scoops up indie filmmakers, chews them up, and spits out McG and Brett Ratner clones, which absolutely happens. But that’s on a whole ’nother level to what it has done to David Gordon Green. Someone took the most glorious bottle of vintage champagne and whipped up Tang mimosas.
question of the day: “Remixing” a foreign film for North American audiences: good idea?
Yesterday I posted a trailer for the Bollywood film Kites, which opens today all over the planet on the same day it also opens in India: it’s an attempt to drum up some love outside India and Indian ex-pat communites among mainstream moviegoers for the movies that are often seen by more people than many … more…
new this week in U.S., Canadian, and U.K. theaters: ‘Shrek Forever After,’ ‘MacGruber,’ ‘Cop Out,’ ‘Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time’ more (with DVD alternatives)
U.S. AND CANADA/OPENING WIDE Shrek Forever After: Shrek, Fiona, Donkey, and Puss square off against the evil tyrant Rumpelstiltskin. Scary. [trailer] review to come If you can’t make it to the multiplex, try: • Shrek 2 (2004): Still the best in the series, with one of the greatest character intros ever (for Puss in Boots). … more…
trailer break: ‘Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… This may be the most generic trailer I’ve ever seen. What’s the story? Who are the people living the story? What’s the movie actually about? Can it really be actually about anonymous people engaging in hand-to-hand combat, with the occasional instance of stuff blowing up? Of course … more…
