my week at the movies: ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine,’ ‘Ghosts of Girlfriends Past,’ ‘The Brothers Bloom,’ ‘Little Ashes,’ ‘Management,’ ‘Paris 36’

I’ve already had readers from Australia and the U.K. email me to ask when I’m going to review X-Men Origins: Wolverine (opens on April 29 in the U.K. and on May 1 in the U.S.) already?! Well, I won’t see the film till a few hours from now, and then I’m not supposed to post … more…

more movie-ish stuff in the tube

An ad for an exhibit of movie sets, near the London Eye: Promoting the tube as a place to shoot movies, featuring lines of dialogue from a movie, and the location in the tube where it was shot: (Great campaign. Wish I’d seen more of these.) Not a movie, but a planetarium show. The important … more…

trailer break: ‘Star Trek’

Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… (Or, the Star Trek trailer at Apple Trailers: bigger, crisper, clearer.) The wait is not over! In a parallel universe where Paramount didn’t move the release date from now to next bloody summer, the wait is over. But not here. Not in this universe. In what … more…

why no ‘Harry Potter’ this fall?

By now you’ve probably heard that Warner Bros. has pushed the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince back from this coming November to July 2009. The reason (as noted at Film.com) has to do with the writers’ strike, according to Warner Bros. CEO Alan Horn: Our reasons for shifting Half-Blood Prince to summer … more…