on my radar: opening 08.18-20.10 in U.K. theaters
Anything it takes Stallone *and* a gang of badasses to do in *The Expendables,* Angelina Jolie can do all on her own in *Salt*…
Expendables
question of the day: Why did ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ bomb?
It’s one of the biggest bombs of the year. Why?
fair warning: ‘Expendables’ sequel all but inevitable
Sylvester Stallone: writer, director, *auteur*…
cinematic roots of: ‘The Expendables’
In *The Expendables,* writer-director-star Sylvester Stallone gathers together a small mercenary army of leftover 80s action stars and a few wannabe youngsters to kick some ass and take some names. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
action hero-ing while California burns…
Arnold Schwarzenegger must be saying to himself, ‘Ronald Reagan never had to deal with this shit’…
The Expendables (review)
‘Bad Shakespeare,’ one badass notes with a sad shake of his head at a particularly cheesy revelation about the other badass standing in front of him, and that’s the moment when a little bell in my head went off: Bingo.
question of the day: Who would you cast in an all-female ‘Expendables’/‘A-Team’/‘Losers’ action film?
And they have to rescue at least one big strong badass guy from mortal danger…
on my radar: opening 08.13.10 in U.S. and Canadian theaters
I really want to like *Eat Pray Love,* because I’m desperate for stories about women living their own lives for themselves, the way that stories about men almost always are allowed to be…
The Other Guys movie review: cops and bunglers
It’s all absurd and overblown and — most importantly — consistently so through to the end.
trailer break: ‘Red’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Oh, wow. Helen Mirren is just totally bad-ass, ain’t she? This looks a helluva lot better than The Expendables, which appears to be working from a similar idea. But it doesn’t have Mirren, for one. That was their first mistake. Red opens in the U.S. and Canada … more…
