The Square review: power from the people
This is history firsthand, in progress, and unfinished.
Green Zone
poster convergence: ‘Green Zone’ and ‘Robin Hood’
Are you lookin’ at me? Cuz I don’t see anybody else here. Dudes are some badass dudes, okay? Do. Not. Mess with them. They will fuck your shit up. They are done following orders. They are done being good citizens and good serfs. It is time to take the power of righteous fury into their … more…
North American box office: ‘Dragon’ flies high…
…but not as high as it might have: 1. How to Train Your Dragon: $43.7 million (NEW) 2. Alice in Wonderland: $17.7 million (4th week; drops 48%) 3. Hot Tub Time Machine: $14 million (NEW) 4. The Bounty Hunter: $12 million (2nd week; drops 42%) 5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: $10.1 million (2nd week; … more…
U.K. box office: ‘Alice’ holds off newcomers again
But will the unstoppable movie be stopped next week? 1. Alice in Wonderland: £4.8 million (3rd week; drops 34%) 2. The Bounty Hunter: £2.1 million (NEW) 3. Shutter Island: £1.8 million (2nd week; drops 19%) 4. I Love You Phillip Morris: £1.1 million (NEW) 5. Green Zone: £1 million (2nd week; drops 51%) (actual numbers, … more…
North American box office: nothing can stop ‘Alice’
A quick look at last week’s box office as we head into the new weekend: 1. Alice in Wonderland: $34.2 million (3rd week; drops 46%) 2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: $22.1 million (NEW) 3. The Bounty Hunter: $20.7 million (NEW) 4. Repo Men: $6.13 million (NEW) 5. Green Zone: $6.11 million (2nd week; drops … more…
U.K. box office: No one can beat ‘Alice’
Though newcomers give it a good shot: 1. Alice in Wonderland: £7.2 million (2nd week; drops 30%) 2. Shutter Island: £2.3 million (NEW) 3. Green Zone: £2.1 million (NEW) 4. Avatar: £.64 million 5. Hachi: A Dog’s Tale: £.44 million (NEW) (actual numbers, not estimates) Just as in North America, nothing could come close to … more…
North American box office: ‘Alice’ magically successful
A quick look at last week’s box office as we head into the new weekend (this is where losing a day early in the week leaves me — late late late): 1. Alice in Wonderland: $62.7 million (2nd week; drops 46%) 2. Green Zone: $14.3 million (NEW) 3. She’s Out of My League: $9.8 million … more…
question of the day: In what ways is ‘Avatar’ — and now ‘Green Zone’ — unAmerican?
I was baffled by all those who took exception to Avatar on the basis of its somehow being anticapitalist, antimilitary, antiscience, and — oh noes! — anti-American. (See here and here, if you want to be baffled too.) It seemed to me that these objectors were saying that destruction and bigotry and horror and selfishness … more…
March 12: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but you still haven’t given up the search for WMDs in Iraq. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, did you see Green Zone … more…
Green Zone (review)
Spoiler alert! Jason Bourne does not find the WMDs in Iraq. Sorry to ruin *Green Zone* for you, but surely reality already did that years ago.
