Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (trailer)
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is all, “Hey, come on, everybody, I’ve got this secret map that’s gonna help me find my career again!”
Michael Caine
Cars 2 (review)
Those clever sneaky Pixar folks are warning us that if we Americans don’t clean house, we’re going to bring the whole world down with us, and the entirety of human civilization will collapse into a nasty soup of irrationality and ignorance.
‘Harry Potter’ beats up ‘Star Wars’; Michael Caine, psychic author; TV getting gayer; more: leftover links
Plus: the deaths of Stephen J. Cannell, Sally Menke, Gloria Stuart, and Tony Curtis; Armond White is at it again (and so are his adversaries); Chris Noth thinks critics killed Sex and the City; and on and on…
retro trailer: ‘Without a Clue’
Another reminder of just how often Sherlock Holmes has been fiddled with, updated, rewound, and reinvented by filmmakers…
Harry Brown (review)
Michael Caine as Dirty Harry? Well, not quite…
April 30: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but if you don’t knock down that last bit of woods in your neighborhood and pave it over for a parking lot, it’ll never get done. But you can have a multiplex-like experience from the comfort of your own sofa with … more…
my week at the movies: ‘Harry Brown,’ ‘Death at a Funeral’
It’s another slow movie week for me. If only I’d bought the recently released Region 2 DVD of Harry Brown (opens in the U.S. and Canada on April 30; it played in the U.K. last autumn), I could have skipped a screening altogether. But what the hell: I gotta go downtown for something else today … more…
question of the day: Who’s your favorite Sherlock Holmes?
I’m off to see Sherlock Holmes again today with my geek gang, so this seems like a good day to ask this question, which comes from reader DangerMom: Who’s your favorite Sherlock Holmes? TV or film, whichever. The IMDB has a loooong list of all the many actors who’ve played the world’s first consulting detective … more…
U.K. box office: ‘2012’ opens big
But Christmas Carol is the real winner: 1. 2012: £6.5 million (NEW) 2. A Christmas Carol: £2.5 million (2nd week; up 31%) 3. Harry Brown: £1.3 million (NEW) 4. Up: £.99 million 5. The Men Who Stare at Goats: £.8 million (2nd week; drops 34%) (actual numbers, not estimates) Just as in North America, 2012 … more…
November 6: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but you’re gonna be busy staring at a big button, arguing with yourself about whether or not to push it. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you … more…
