Now Is Good (review)
Why does Dakota Fanning get to really live onscreen here in a way that Teh Movies don’t usually allow girls to do? Because she’s dying.
Dakota Fanning
cinematic roots of: ‘Secretariat’
In Secretariat, a true story of the fastest horse ever to win the Triple Crown, his owner (Diane Lane) takes huge business risks to promote and race the animal in a time — the 1970s — when women making multimillion-dollar deals was not the done thing. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
poster convergence: ‘Twilight: Eclipse’ and ‘Meet the Beatles’
Meet the Volturi. Okay, the Beatles album cover isn’t a poster. But it serves the same purpose. And it was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw this poster for Twilight: Eclipse on a bus shelter last night. Dakota Fanning is totally John Lennon, don’tcha think?
April 9: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but it’s your significant other’s turn to pick the doings of your date night, and you went to the movies last week. But you can have a multiplex-like experience from the comfort of your own sofa with a collection of the … more…
The Runaways (review)
There hasn’t been a movie like The Runaways, one about women rockers that’s just as raw and earthy and tough and pitiless as the ones about the men are.
my week at the movies: ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ ‘The Runaways,’ ‘Chloe,’ ‘Stolen’
UPDATE: Added last-minute screenings this week of Our Family Wedding (opens in the U.S. and Canada on March 12; no U.K. release date has been announced; trailer here) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (opens in the U.K. on March 10, in the U.S. on March 19; it played theatrically last spring in Canada, … more…
my week the movies: ‘District 9,’ ‘Aliens in the Attic,’ ‘Funny People,’ ‘The Cove,’ ‘Fragments,’ ‘Taking Woodstock’
Did I get to all those screeners and VOD movies I wanted to watch last week? No, of course not. There just aren’t enough hours in the day or the week. If only I could get away with not sleeping, it’d help. But I can’t. And here we are with another week beginning, and I’m … more…
trailer break: ‘Hannah Montana: The Movie’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I thought, Wasn’t there a Hannah Montana movie last year? There was, and even though it was just a concert movie, it made 31-freakin’-million dollars over its opening weekend. And it was in only 683 theaters, which figures to a per-screen average of a phenomenal $45,561. Which … more…
movie posters in London (part 2)
More movie posters spotted around London these last ten days. (Part 1 is here.) Very different from the ads I’ve seen at home for Push, and also: did they make Dakota Fanning’s head freakishly large, or what: Not a movie, of course, but what the hell. I get the sense that this is part of … more…
Coraline (review)
An elemental tale of childhood fantasies and nightmares…
