Bridget Jones’s Baby movie review: how to infantilize women
The desperation, the neuroticism, and the idiocy of Bridget Jones continues to be appalling, not appealing. She is not the everywoman she is meant to be.
Bruno
Grimsby (aka The Brothers Grimsby) movie review: grim indeed
A soul-crushing experience: lazy, cheap, lurid, and stupid. Painfully unfunny and pointless. Sacha Baron Cohen now panders to those he once rightly mocked.
I Give It a Year (review)
A movie to make you hate romance, and romantic comedies, and people.
The Dictator (review)
A stunning failure, certainly compared to Borat and Bruno. Sacha Baron Cohen is clearly aware of whom the targets of his satiric ire should be, but he couldn’t figure out how to make it work.
The Dictator (trailer)
I wonder if Sacha Baron Cohen has chosen a tough subject for himself this time out: repressive regimes are already so far beyond satire…
Arthur (review)
It must have been a fine time, back in the early 80s, when Ronald Reagan was only just embarking on his diabolical plan to kill the American middle class: we could still find carefree, spoiled-rotten billionaires kooky and captivating…
U.K. box office: ‘Up’ opens in the stratosphere
I really wish the U.K. box office numbers were available earlier in the week…: 1. Up: £6.4 million (NEW) 2. Zombieland: £1.2 million (NEW) 3. The Invention of Lying: £1.1 million (2nd week; drops 38%) 4. Fame: £.91 million (3rd week; drops 49%) 5. Love Happens: £.56 million (NEW) (actual numbers, not estimates) Unsurprisingly, the … more…
U.K. box office: Sandra Bullock can’t beat Harry Potter
But it’s still Bullock’s best British opening to date: 1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: £5.2 million (2nd week; drops 74%) 2. The Proposal: £3.2 million (NEW) 3. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: £2.2 million (4th week; drops 25%) 4. Bruno: £1.2 million (3rd week; drops 47%) 5. The Hangover: £.69 million (actual … more…
U.K. box office: it’s about all ‘Harry Potter,’ of course
A quick look at last weekend in the U.K. as we head into the new one: 1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: £19.8 million (NEW) 2. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: £2.8 million (3rd week; drops 40%) 3. Bruno: £2.3 million (2nd week; drops 54%) 4. The Hangover: £.89 million 5. Transformers: Revenge … more…
North American box office: ‘Harry Potter’ whips up multiplex magic
The Half-Blood Prince opens huge, but not quite as huge as it could have: 1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: $77.8 million (NEW) 2. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: $17.6 million (3rd week; drops 36%) 3. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: $13.7 million (4th week; drops 44%) 4. Bruno: $8.32 million (2nd week; … more…
