best and worst movie quotes of 2010
Oh yeah, I’m late with this. I carefully gather them all year long and then I never get around to posting them. So here they are at long last. And for 2011, I’m just gonna post ’em as they come in. So there.
Date Night
calling bullshit on: Owen Gleiberman at EW’s The Movie Critics…
…for deciding that two female action stars constitutes a “new normal”: It’s amusing to realize, in hindsight, that Luc Besson’s funky-violent French art-house thriller La Femme Nikita, in 1990, and its rote American remake, Point of No Return, in 1993, were still treating lady-killer heroines with kid gloves. At that point, seeing an actress like … more…
Shrek Forever After (review)
They’ve promised us that this will be the last Shrek film, and please let it be true.
North American box office: ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ back at No. 1
And new releases fail to engage: 1. How to Train Your Dragon: $15.4 million 2. The Back-up Plan: $12.2 million (NEW) 3. Date Night: $10.5 million (3rd week; drops 37%) 4. The Losers: $9.4 million (NEW) 5. Kick-Ass: $9.3 million (2nd week; drops 53%) actual numbers, not estimates Ugh. It was ugly out there this … more…
North American box office: ‘Kick-Ass’ can’t quite kick ass…
…and How to Train Your Dragon continues breathing fire: 1. Kick-Ass: $19.8 million (NEW) 2. How to Train Your Dragon: $19.6 million (4th week; drops 21%) 3. Date Night: $16.7 million (2nd week; drops 34%) 4. Death at a Funeral: $16.2 million (NEW) 5. Clash of the Titans: $15.4 million (3rd week; drops 42%) actual … more…
poster convergence: ‘Date Night’ and ‘Killers’
No one said marriage would be so much work! Everyone says, Marriage is great. It’s so awesome to have someone at your side you can trust through thick and thin. It’s better than being alone. You’ll love it! But no one tells you about the guns left lying around the living room. Or the bloodstains … more…
North American box office: ‘Clash’ drops titanically
But Fey and Carell have a very nice night out: 1. Clash of the Titans: $26.6 million (2nd week; drops 57%) 2. Date Night: $25.2 million (NEW) 3. How to Train Your Dragon: $24.9 million (3rd week; drops 14%) 4. Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too: $11 million (2nd week; drops 62%) 5. … more…
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…
Date Night (review)
That Carell and Fey manage to maintain their gosh-darn likeability is the most surprising thing about this otherwise aggressively mediocre flick.
my week at the movies: ‘Micmacs,’ ‘Date Night,’ ‘The Secret in Their Eyes,’ ‘Mother and Child’
Micmacs (now playing in the U.K. and available to preorder on Region 2 DVD; opens in the U.S. and Canada on May 28), in which French comedian Dany Boon is a guy with a bullet in his head on a quest to destroy the weapons manufacturer who made the bullet. It’s from Jean-Pierre Jeunet — … more…
