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If you regularly check my on-the-fly ranking of new theatrical releases as I see them, then my top 10 movies of 2009 are no surprise: I shuffled a few titles around a bit last month, but the films ranked in the top 10 for 2009 haven’t changed much in months. (The 2009 ranking is here; … more…
While we wait for the wide release of The Princess and the Frog — my review is coming soon — is a good opportunity to look back at the last 20 years of Disney animated movies. Over at Film.com, I recently ranked all the Disney/Disney-Pixar movies since the Disney renaissance began in 1989 with The … more…
And Paranormal Activity opens big: 1. The Twilight Saga: New Moon: £4.3 million (2nd week; drops 63%) 2. Paranormal Activity: £3.6 million (NEW) 3. A Christmas Carol: £1.9 million (4th week; drops 13%) 4. 2012: £1.8 million (3rd week; drops 48%) 5. Law Abiding Citizen: £1.5 million (NEW) (actual numbers, not estimates) A 63 percent … more…
It’s all those balloons holding it aloft: 1. Up: £3.8 million (3rd week; drops 26%) 2. Saw VI: £1.7 million (NEW) 3. Fantastic Mr. Fox: £1.5 million (NEW) 4. Couples Retreat: £.93 million (2nd week; drops 49%) 5. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant: £.798 million (NEW) (actual numbers, not estimates) Up had edged close … more…
Imagine if Jules Verne wrote a movie for Pixar, if that steampunk visionary looked forward from his perch in the late Victorian age to a Great War in his near future that didn’t pause for twenty years to let everyone to catch their breath but instead went apocalyptic.
I’ve reminded readers here more than once lately that if you want to get my instant first reaction to a movie, you should follow me on Twitter and/or Facebook, because the first thing I do when I leave a screening is text my 140 characters of mini review goodness. (Those texts also go to my … more…
Bad-ass robots are the spirit of the Fourth of July? *sigh*: 1. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: $42.3 million (2nd week; drops 61%) 2. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: $41.7 million (NEW) 3. Public Enemies: $25.3 million (NEW) 4. The Proposal: $12.9 million (3rd week; drops 31%) 5. The Hangover: $11.3 million actual numbers, … more…
Pixar triumphs again. Is there anything they can’t sell us? 1. Up: $68.1 million (NEW) 2. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian: $24.4 million (2nd week; drops 55%) 3. Terminator Salvation: $16.4 million (2nd week; drops 61%) 4. Drag Me to Hell: $15.8 million (NEW) 5. Star Trek: $12.6 million (4th week; drops … more…
How did the Pixar folks time it just right to get this cheerful and fantastical yet never unrealistically optimistic movie before our eyes just as we are getting desperate for a movie to hug us reassuringly?
Up, Disney, Pixar, Around the World in 80 Days, Oscars, David Niven, Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel, Boy and His Dog, Don Johnson, Drag Me to Hell, Sam Raimi, Evil Dead II, Three Stooges, Chuck Jones, Bruce Campbell, Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, What Goes Up, Steve Coogan, Wonder Boys, Michael Douglas, Breakfast Club, Brothers Bloom, Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Michael Caine, Steve Martin, Glenne Headly, French Riviera
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