Gambit (trailer)
The Coen Brothers have written a new movie, and it stars Alan Rickman and Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz and Stanley Tucci? *cinemagasm*
Cameron Diaz
What to Expect When You’re Expecting (review)
It’s intended to be delightful, but it feels as long as a pregnancy itself, this roundrobin of forcefully interconnected tales of incipient parenthood.
cartoons and porn: as old as humanity (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
question of the day: Why aren’t there more professional female characters in movies?
Who was the last really notable professional woman you can recall in a movie?
Bad Teacher (great movie quotes)
“All I’m asking is for ten thousand dollars!” –Elizabeth Halsey (Cameron Diaz)
Bad Teacher (review)
A refreshing breath of just-so-wrongness in today’s movie milieu.
trailer break: ‘Bad Teacher’
This is awesome. The world desperately needs a movie about a horrible, shallow, mean, angry, bitter, stupid person.
The Green Hornet (review)
He doesn’t exactly kick ass: he is an ass. Life as a masked crime fighter with some slick wheels to groove him around town is not the chick magnet he imagined it would be…
question of the day: Is there ever a good reason to open a movie on any day other than Friday?
Last week the Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz action comedy Knight and Day opened on a Wednesday, ostensibly to avoid the Friday opening, two days later, of the Adam Sandler “family” comedy Grown Ups. It looks — to my eyes, having seen both films as well as examined the marketing of them — as if the two … more…
new this week in U.S., Canadian, and U.K. theaters: ‘Knight and Day,’ ‘Grown Up,’ ‘Get Him to the Greek,’ ‘When in Rome,’ more
U.S. AND CANADA/OPENING WIDE Knight and Day: Tom Cruise does some spy stuff and runs around a lot, while Cameron Diaz does a lot of screaming and runs around like a girl. If you can’t make it to the multiplex, try: • The 39 Steps (1935): Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll are mismatched maybe-spies in … more…
