daily stream: a house that love builds (with a lot of help)
2020’s Herself is on Prime in the US, on Curzon Home Cinema in the UK.
Mamma Mia
Blinded by the Light movie review: bend it like The Boss
Seriously adorkable teen is saved, in 1987, by the rock poetry of Bruce Springsteen. The Boss is still relevant today, as is, alas, the harsh political and economic setting of Thatcher’s Britain.
Yesterday movie review: imagine there’s no Beatles…
It’s not interested in a world absent the incalculably enormous impact of the Beatles. It’s just a lazy comedy of one running joke, a regular schmoe enjoying unwarranted success, and a blah romance.
Bohemian Rhapsody movie review: dynamite with a laser beam
Rami Malek brings warmth, humor, and a down-to-earth humanity to the larger-than-life Freddie Mercury. But it is the power of Queen’s music — the rousing good cheer, its sheer rock ’n’ roll joy — that fills up this pure brash entertainment.
Sunshine on Leith trailer: all singing, all dancing, all Scottish
I knew this is a musical, and I still wasn’t expecting soldiers to start singing in the middle of the street.
making sitcom lemonade (Love Is All You Need review)
What starts out as conventional dramedy becomes a charming, wise story about making the most of whatever life throws at you…
cinematic roots of: ‘The Switch’
In *The Switch,* Jennifer Aniston can’t believe she got Jason Bateman’s sperm in her baby, when someone else was supposed to be her artificial baby daddy. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
U.K. box office: ‘Avatar’ now biggest U.K. movie ever
And it’s nowhere near done yet: 1. Avatar: £4.3 million 2. The Princess and the Frog: £2.2 million (NEW in wide release) 3. Astro Boy: £1.09 million (NEW) 4. Invictus: £1.07 million (NEW) 5. Sherlock Holmes: £.78 million (actual numbers, not estimates) After last weekend, Avatar is now officially the biggest movie ever in the … more…
because Britney Spears is dying to star in the inevitable movie, and has been practicing her British accent
A Spice Girls stage musical is in the works, from the same people who created Mamma Mia! (which also ended up on the big screen), according to BBC News. Or perhaps because it’s no longer a question if you wanna be their lover: you’ll be forced to. This has been your WTF Thought for the … more…
U.K. box office: ‘Fame’ opens big
It might not live forever, but still, wow: 1. Fame: £2.4 million (NEW) 2. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: £1.4 million (2nd week; drops 11%) 3. Surrogates: £.96 (NEW) 4. District 9: £.56 million (4th week; drops 31%) 5. The Soloist: £.37 million (NEW) (actual numbers, not estimates) Being here in the U.K. this … more…
