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.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
trailer break: ‘Shelter’
What’s that? A movie starring Julianne Moore and Jonathan Rhys Meyers can’t get released in North America?
U.K. box office: ‘Alice’ pummels ‘Avatar’
Everything’s gonna be 3D from now on: 1. Alice in Wonderland: £10.6 million (NEW) 2. Avatar: £.91 million 3. The Crazies: £.67 million (2nd week; drops 44%) 4. The Lovely Bones: £.66 million (3rd week; drops 45%) 5. The Princess and the Frog: £.38 million (actual numbers, not estimates) Just as it did in North … more…
February 5: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, except you’re busy writing long, flowery letters to the love of your life, who’s on the other side of the planet somewhere where there’s no Internet access. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the … more…
From Paris with Love (review)
The movie is build from bricks of ridiculous mortared together with the preposterous and painted over with the hugely unlikely. But that don’t mean I didn’t have a blast while I was sitting there in the screening room quaffing it.
my week at the movies: ‘From Paris with Love,’ ‘When in Rome’
It’s another slow week, because it’s late January and almost everyone’s at Sundance. But instead of Utah, I get to go to France this week: From Paris with Love (opens in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. on February 5) might make me feel like I’m traveling. A little bit, maybe? Please? Maybe I’ll get … more…
Bend It Like Beckham (review)
It’s completely predictable and predictably feel-good, but so damn what? This is an utterly delightful flick, not for the least which reason is that it’s about complex, engaging, and realistically flawed young women devoting their lives to something more ambitious than chasing boys and buying cosmetics. London teenage Jesminder (Parminder K. Nagra) lives in a … more…
