This Is 40 (trailer)
Judd Apatow revisits some of the horrible people we had the displeasure to meet in Knocked Up…
Judd Apatow
Wanderlust (trailer)
Shockingly, this trailer does not make me want to slit my wrists…
blame Twitter for Wil Wheaton’s nonblogging; ‘Shit My Dad Says’ shitcanned; Catherine Tate may take over ‘The Office’; more: leftover links
Plus: Cannes shocked by We Need to Talk About Kevin and Lars von Trier; family values robot from the future Arnold Schwarzenegger turns out to be a hypocrite…
North American box office: ‘Funny People’ not laughing so much
It wasn’t a terribly happy opening for the Apatow/Sandler flick: 1. Funny People: $22.7 million (NEW) 2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: $17.9 million (3rd week; drops 39%) 3. G-Force: $17.5 million (2nd week; drops 45%) 4. The Ugly Truth: $13.2 million (2nd week; drops 52%) 5. Aliens in the Attic: $8 million (NEW) … more…
July 31: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but Adam Sandler dying of some awful disease isn’t your idea of a good time. 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 … more…
Funny People (review)
Tears of a Clown Oh, people are gonna hate this movie. Look, the jokes are not jokes in Funny People. The humorous-sounding bits of dialogue are not intended to make you laugh so much as they are intended to make you wonder why the characters uttering them are trying to make those around them laugh. … more…
my week the movies: ‘District 9,’ ‘Aliens in the Attic,’ ‘Funny People,’ ‘The Cove,’ ‘Fragments,’ ‘Taking Woodstock’
Did I get to all those screeners and VOD movies I wanted to watch last week? No, of course not. There just aren’t enough hours in the day or the week. If only I could get away with not sleeping, it’d help. But I can’t. And here we are with another week beginning, and I’m … more…
Judd Apatow doesn’t know what sexism is…
…Katherine Heigl doesn’t know what grownup is, and Orphan knows that women deserve only punishment. It’s fun! Yup, it’s another installment of The Week in Women, my regular column over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Enjoy.
trailer break: ‘Funny People’ redband trailer
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I know I’m known as a Judd Apatow hater, and it’s true I haven’t liked most of his recent work, but I’ve always got an open mind and I always go into the next movie hoping that this is the one that changes things. Substitute Adam Sandler … more…
Knocked Up (review)
The problem is not that *Knocked Up* is “liberal” because it’s about casual sex and having a baby out of wedlock. The problem is that it is horribly conservative about embracing and enjoying an adult version of sexuality that has moved beyond dorm-room-esque groping.
