
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 movie review: prearranged marriage
There is genuine if exasperated warmth here, but it is far less satisfyingly bound up into a cohesive story in this halfhearted retread of the original film.
There is genuine if exasperated warmth here, but it is far less satisfyingly bound up into a cohesive story in this halfhearted retread of the original film.
Just a quick look at last weekend’s numbers as we move into a new go-round: 1. Avatar: £2.3 million 2. The Lovely Bones: £1.203 million (2nd week; drops 27%) 3. The Crazies: £1.194 million (NEW) 4. The Princess and the Frog: £.87 million (4th week in wide release; drops 50%) 5. Percy Jackson & the … more…
While New Moon wanes: 1. The Blind Side: $20 million (3rd week; drops 50%) 2. The Twilight Saga: New Moon: $15.4 million (3rd week; drops 64%) 3. Brothers: $9.5 million (NEW) 4. A Christmas Carol: $7.8 million 5. Old Dogs: $6.9 million (2nd week; drops 59%) actual numbers, not estimates It was the biggest post-Thanksgiving … more…
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but you’ll be busy planning your robbery of an armored car so you can pay for your holiday celebrations. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on … more…
As of this writing, 12 movies are set to open wide in North America in the month of December. (Others will open limited in December and go wide in January.) Which means that even if you’re an active moviegoer and see a movie each week, you’ve still gotta pick and choose (and it’s even worse … more…
Writer-director Kirk Jones has pulled off a little miracle with this lovely, lovely movie: He’s telling us a story both universal enough in its reach to speak to anyone who’s ever been part of a family, and specific enough in its particulars to keep it grounded in the fantasy of fiction.
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I’m thinking this is what happened: The “creative” team of directors David and Scott Hillenbrand and writers Worm Miller and Patrick Casey — who previously brought us the beloved and acclaimed Oscar winner National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze — were sitting around toking up one night, and … more…
Over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. He was really cool and very interesting. And his new movie is fabulous, too. (Review next week.)
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… It’s Planes, Trains and Automobiles, but sad (or sadder), and with Robert DeNiro. Hopefully not doing his crazy-dad Meet the Parents schtick. It looks like not, but you never know. Everybody’s Fine opens in the U.S. on December 4, and in the U.K. on February 19, 2010.
Woo-hoo! It’s the end of the world — again — as Roland Emmerich knows it, and I feel fine. Oh, there can be no question that this is crap, but will 2012 (opens in the U.S. and the U.K. on November 13) be glorious crap? I think it might be. I hope it might be. … more…