best and worst movie quotes of 2010
Oh yeah, I’m late with this. I carefully gather them all year long and then I never get around to posting them. So here they are at long last. And for 2011, I’m just gonna post ’em as they come in. So there.
John Malkovich
question of the day: Who is your favorite hammy actor?
Let’s just call it a given that William Shatner is probably at the tops of many a list. Who else? Al Pacino? John Malkovich? Jim Carrey? Are there any actresses who could be called hammy?
cinematic roots of: ‘Red’
In Red, retired super secret agents including Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, and Morgan Freeman come out of retirement — unofficially — to investigate a nasty coverup at the highest levels of government of a terrible crime. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
Secretariat (review)
It starts out all sad music at momma’s funeral and we gots to sell the horse farm, but dang if nobody can keep Diane Lane down.
Red (review)
Of all the washed-up washed-out over-the-hill too-old-for-this-shit action-hero movies we’ve had thrown at us this year — The A-Team, The Losers, The Expendables — Red is by far the most amusing, the most clever, the most tongue-in-cheek, the most fun (and I say that as someone who mostly liked those other movies).
Jonah Hex (review)
If Jonah Hex can talk to the dead, then he’s probably the only one (apart from Ned the Pie Man) who could have any meaningful interaction with this movie.
trailer break: ‘Jonah Hex’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… So is the crossed-over Jonah Hex basically Jesus? He raises that one guy from the dead… This is not a possibility I was expecting from this movie. (I’m not familiar with the source material — maybe there’s a Jesus-y thing in there?) Jesus was pretty much a … more…
watch it: European TV ad for espresso machine with George Clooney
In case you, like me, can’t get enough of George Clooney (John Malkovich is in this too): And another one with George… (via Jezebel)
my week at the movies: ‘Extract,’ ‘An Education,’ ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs,’ ‘All About Steve,’ ‘Disgrace,’ ‘Gamer’
UPDATED: It’s turning out to be a much busier screening week than I expected. I’ve added two movies: The Boys Are Back (opens in the U.S. on September 25, and in the U.K. on January 15, 2010), starring Clive Owen as an Australian single dad, and Broken Embraces (opened in the U.K. on August 28; … more…
The Great Buck Howard (review)
Kitsch is cool in this sad, sweet, funny ode to being oneself, no matter how dorky oneself is.
