A Few Best Men (review)
If you don’t already think romance is dead, you will after this crude, obvious, juvenile, and desperately unfunny excuse for a wedding farce.
Death at a Funeral
Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2010 EDA Awards nominees
The AWFJ is one of the critics’ groups I belong to; my input helped determine these nominees, and I will vote in the final balloting to narrow it down to the winners. I still have to watch a few of these nominees…
female gazing at: Rupert Graves
While I was watching Made in Dagenham the other day, I suddenly realized that Rupert Graves is in pretty much every good thing ever…
question of the day: Can Roger Ebert’s new ‘At the Movies’ survive in the current TV environment?
Roger Ebert announced earlier this week that he will be producing a new version of At the Movies, the PBS and later syndicated film criticism series he and Gene Siskel pioneered in the 1970s…
wtf: daycare sends six-year-olds to an R-rated movie
Um, what? A Texas day care center is facing a state probe over allegations that it took a group of 6-year-olds to see a raunchy R-rated movie in Waco in July. Young Expressions Childcare in the Waco suburb of Bellmead, Texas, is under investigation by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, a spokesman … more…
new this week in U.S., Canadian, and U.K. theaters: ‘Get Him to the Greek,’ ‘Splice,’ ‘Death at a Funeral,’ ‘The Brothers Bloom,’ more
U.S. AND CANADA/OPENING WIDE Get Him to the Greek: Rock stars (ie, Russell Brand) are a mess, and the normal people who are their fans (ie, Jonah Hill) are only slightly less a mess. Such is the plight of humanity. If you can’t make it to the multiplex, try: • Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008): Which … 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…
trailer break: ‘The Losers’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I’m pretty sure I had never seen Jeffrey Dean Morgan in anything before Watchmen, but now I want him to be in everything. And Zoe Saldana is clearly on her way to being in everything — Avatar, Star Trek, the new Death at a Funeral — and … more…
Death at a Funeral (review)
Assumes that the viewer is a complete and utter fucking moron…
a little pick-me-up for a rainy Saturday
And just as I’m about to head out to endure Death at a Funeral: Garth Franklin of Dark Horizons considers me a must-read. Nice.
