Ted (redband trailer)
Looks like — *fingers crossed* — this might actually be a fantasy that sends up extended male adolescence rather than celebrating it…
Mark Wahlberg
Contraband (review)
It’s a good thing Mark Wahlberg is so effortlessly charming: he keeps this rather generic heist thriller rolling along as smoothly as it does.
Contraband (trailer)
Get yer Michael Bay-rections ready, boys.
question of the day: Are there any nonreality celebrities you’d actually want to see in their own reality show?
Like how Mark Wahlberg is opening Wahlburgers restaurant in Boston and wants to shoot a reality show there…
because when you shine a line on cockroaches, they scurry back to their dark corners (possibly NSFW)
Must to share a truly enlightening email exchange I had today that was ostensibly about my review of Your Highness, but was really about so much more…
Colin Firth and Natalie Portman are Oscar shoo-ins; everything else up for grabs: Oscar predictions
Here’s an at-a-glance look at my picks for Sunday night’s Academy Awards — projected winners are Xed. Keep in mind: this isn’t a list of whom I think should win Oscars but whom I think will win…
trailer break: ‘The Fighter’
Starring Mark Wahlberg as Rocky and Amy Adams as Adrian.
Mark Wahlberg admits ‘The Happening’ was terrible; Billy Bob Thornton says Hollywood is terrible; a female Old Spice Man spoof; more: leftover links
Plus: first-grader teased over her Star Wars water bottle; journalistic ethics getting a workout; saga of a film critic banned from screenings who got her buddies at The New York Times to intervene; more…
quick list: five great football movies that aren’t really about football
I don’t get football. I have no desire to get it, and feel no great loss in my life because of this. But there are a few great football movies aren’t really about football, far less so than the many great baseball movies are actually about baseball. And so these are movies I can love.
cinematic roots of: ‘The Town’
In The Town, bank robber (Ben Affleck) falls in love with a witness (Rebecca Hall) to his latest heist while dodging the investigation of an FBI agent (Jon Hamm) into his crimes. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
