question of the day: Which film actors would you like to see make the move to television?
What sort of show would you cast them in?
Reese Witherspoon
This Means War (trailer)
From McG, who looks at Michael Bay’s movies and likes what he sees, only he wishes they weren’t so full of meaning and depth, and weren’t so damned feminist.
retro ad: 1970s Battleship commercial
The commercial the upcoming movie is based on. Liam Neeson plays the guy who says, “You sank my battleship!”
Water for Elephants (review)
As cornball goes, there’s nothing cornier than running away to join the circus. And that’s why Water for Elephants works so beautifully: It doesn’t pretend to be anything other than an old-fashioned melodrama yarn-spun for as much emotion and tragedy and romance as possible.
The Concert (review)
This is how you get your arthouse-averse friends to watch a foreign fil-um: show them The Concert. Yes, they’ll have to read subtitles, but it is just simply crammed with so much Hollywood feel-good that a studio remake is surely just around the corner, probably starring Reese Witherspoon with a French accent and Stanley Tucci pulling a Russian one.
Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2010 EDA Awards nominees
The AWFJ is one of the critics’ groups I belong to; my input helped determine these nominees, and I will vote in the final balloting to narrow it down to the winners. I still have to watch a few of these nominees…
How Do You Know (review)
I’d really like to give writer-director James L. Brooks the benefit of the doubt here, because I think — as I usually don’t about asinine romantic comedies — that he means well. He simply doesn’t seem to realize that pathologically messed up characters are neither cute nor charming.
North American box office: ‘The Princess and the Frog’ goes wide and big…
…but can it hold on through the holidays? 1. The Princess and the Frog: $24.2 million (NEW in wide release) 2. The Blind Side: $15.1 million (4th week; drops 25%) 3. Invictus: $8.6 million (NEW) 4. The Twilight Saga: New Moon: $8 million (4th week; drops 48%) 5. A Christmas Carol: $6.8 million actual numbers, … more…
dream cast: imaginary movie about the American Revolution
It’s Thursday, so it’s time for another Dream Cast, and this week we’re doing something special in honor of the American holiday Fourth of July. I’ve always wondered why we haven’t gotten a big, juicy, emotional, dramatic, epic movie about the revolt of the British colonies in the New World, especially considering how many spectacular … more…
Monsters vs. Aliens (review)
The nicest monster movie ever…
