Killing Them Softly (review)
Turns a dark mirror on crime mythology to reflect a startling, unflattering image of America.
Great Recession
The Grapes of Wrath (retro trailer)
Wherever there’s a director goin’ over budget, Fox’ll be there. Wherever there’s a spoiled movie star renegotiatin’ a contract, Fox’ll be there.
Arthur (review)
It must have been a fine time, back in the early 80s, when Ronald Reagan was only just embarking on his diabolical plan to kill the American middle class: we could still find carefree, spoiled-rotten billionaires kooky and captivating…
question of the day: Will the Great Recession force Hollywood to be more creative?
I wonder if this terrible summer has been a blip or if, perhaps, it’s a state of affairs we should expect to continue for the next several years..
Kirstie Alley’s Scientology diet; the Tinseltown closet; Tina Fey, sex goddess: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
watch it: the 3/20/10 weekly address from President Barack Obama
Is this new bill called the Torches and Pitchforks Act of 2010? The Directive for the Prevention of the Revolt of the Peasants? Cuz there’d better finally be some major blood — of a figurative sort, of course — and fines that look like the GDP of small African nations. Or I call for tarring … more…
trailer break: ‘Armored’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… This won’t screen for critics before it opens, but that’s okay: I feel like I’ve just seen the whole thing right here in the trailer. So thoughtful of Screen Gems, don’t you think? Lesson for today: The foreclosure crisis leads to bad movies. Will the horrors of … more…
U.K. box office: ‘Up’ keeps floating along
Nothing can stop the high-flying Disney flick: 1. Up: £5.2 million (2nd week; drops 19%) 2. Couples Retreat: £1.8 million (NEW) 3. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus: £.9 milion (NEW) 4. The Invention of Lying: £.589 million (3rd week; drops 46%) 5. Zombieland: £.576 million (2nd week; drops 54%) (actual numbers, not estimates) With Up … more…
