Walking with Dinosaurs: The 3D Movie review: where is an extinction-level event when you need one?
Sub-vaudeville 1950s sitcom humor and a horrifically dated message about boys as heroes and girls as the heroes’ property. You know, for kids!
Creation
Creation (review)
This gentle movie is about science as a human endeavor, as noble and contradictory and sometimes as wrenching a thing as making great art or journeying to unknown lands.
North American box office: ‘Avatar’ is unstoppable
Nothing new can even come close to the Cameron juggernaut: 1. Avatar: $34.9 million 2. Legion: $17.5 million (NEW) 3. The Book of Eli: $15.7 million (2nd week; drops 52%) 4. Tooth Fairy: $14 million (NEW) 5. The Lovely Bones: $8.4 million (2nd week in wide release; drops 51%) actual numbers, not estimates It didn’t … more…
poster convergence: ‘Legion’ and ‘Tooth Fairy’
Two movies opening on the same day (in North America, at least), and both feature fantastical winged creatures. Coincidence… or magical intervention? In these desperate times, when change we can believe in seems far away and hope is waning, can we at least count on our flying imaginary friends for comfort? Shall we embrace the … more…
trailer break: ‘The Young Victoria’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Romance! Intrigue! Royalty! Politics! Assassination! Ruffles! Sideburns! What’s not to love? Don’t tell anybody — shhh! — but all of a sudden, between this film and Creation (both of which I’ve now seen), I suddenly have a little bit of a crush on Paul Bettany. It’s probably … more…
my week at the movies: ‘Gentlemen Broncos,’ ‘Michael Jackson’s This Is It,’ ‘Creation,’ ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox,’ ‘The Fourth Kind,’ ‘Pirate Radio’ (aka ‘The Boat That Rocked’), ‘Collapse’
Busy, busy week. And awards season hasn’t quite hit yet (though screeners are starting to come). It’s gonna be a crazy couple months… Most hilarious title ever? Gentlemen Broncos (opens in the U.S. on October 30; no U.K. release date has been announced) looks to be a hoot… and I do really like Jared Hess’s … more…
U.K. box office: ‘Fame’ opens big
It might not live forever, but still, wow: 1. Fame: £2.4 million (NEW) 2. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: £1.4 million (2nd week; drops 11%) 3. Surrogates: £.96 (NEW) 4. District 9: £.56 million (4th week; drops 31%) 5. The Soloist: £.37 million (NEW) (actual numbers, not estimates) Being here in the U.K. this … more…
my week at the movies: nothing
I’m in England. I’m too busy sitting in pubs and flirting with bartenders with cute accents to go to the movies. Although… I might try to see either Creation or Dorian Gray, which are new in theaters here. You’ll hear about that if I do.
trailer break: ‘Creation’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I’m so looking forward to seeing this movie, and it looks like I’ll get my chance: the film has finally been picked up for U.S. distribution by Newmarket Films, after a period during which no one would touch it. As the Telegraph explained back on September 11: … more…
