African Cats (review)
A gorgeously photographed, astonishingly intimate look at two big-cat families in the Maasai Mara game preserve in Kenya…
Earth
trailer break: ‘Oceans’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Remember, if you don’t see this movie opening week, it’s the same thing as saying, “Fuck the coral reefs.” But hey, what have the coral reefs ever done for you, anyway? Unlike last year’s disappointing Earth, this DisneyNature film is not adapted from the BBC series Planet … more…
North American box office: it’s warp factor 9 to the top for ‘Star Trek’
Oh, you knew a joke about light-speed was in the offing: 1. Star Trek: $79.2 million (NEW) 2. X-Men Origins: Wolverine: $26.4 million (2nd week; drops 69%) 3. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past: $10.3 million (2nd week; drops 33%) 4. Obsessed: $6.6 million (3rd week; drops 46%) 5. 17 Again: $4.2 million (4th week; drops 34%) … more…
North American box office: ‘Obsessed’ goes crazy
They didn’t screen it for critics, it’s a complete piece of tripe, and it wins the weekend? Oh no they didn’t. Oh yes they did: 1. Obsessed: $28.6 million (NEW) 2. 17 Again: $11.5 million (2nd week; drops 51%) 3. Fighting: $11 million (NEW) 4. The Soloist: $9.7 million (NEW) 5. Earth: $8.8 million (NEW) … more…
opening in North America April 24: ‘The Soloist,’ ‘Fighting,’ ‘Obsessed,’ ‘Earth,’ more
opening wide The Soloist: It’s the feel-kinda-queasy-about-how-rotten-we-humans-are movie of the spring! But it’s also the feel-kinda-good-cuz-some-of-us-are-trying-fix-that-too movie of the season! Yea! Fighting: I mean this in all honesty, and not to be mean, but is there something wrong with Channing Tatum? Like, is he kinda, you know, slow? Or is there something wrong with audiences … more…
DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We all know how it is. You’d like to get out to see a new movie this weekend, but you can’t find a babysitter or you are the babysitter or you know that the gorgeous weather most of the U.S. is promised for this weekend means you won’t want to do anything but sit on … more…
Earth (review)
It’s not that this lovely-to-look-at nature documentary is bad: it’s just that it’s completely redundant as a film. Adapted from the 11-part BBC nature series Planet Earth — which has been available on DVD for eons — it feels as truncated as it is, cut down in an unforgivable fashion from the grand, sweeping story … more…
my week at the movies: ‘Monsters vs. Aliens,’ ‘Super Capers,’ ‘Knowing,’ ‘Duplicity,’ ‘I Love You, Man,’ ‘Goodbye Solo,’ ‘Shall We Kiss?,’ ‘Earth’
Cutest monsters ever! At least that seems to be what Monsters vs. Aliens (opens in the U.S. on March 27, and in the U.K. on April 3) is promising. I’m especially thrilled because I’m seeing it in IMAX… real IMAX, not that fake stuff they’re trying to sell us these days with the phony “upgrade” … more…
trailer break: ‘Earth’
Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Ah god, I’m gonna be a basket case. Elephant families? Polar bears swimming for their lives? Oh man… Earth opens in the U.S. on April 22; it played in U.K. cinemas in 2007 (perhaps in a slightly different version?).
