The Belko Experiment movie review: team-killing exercise
A one-note scenario that never ups the ante on itself, and never even bothers to use its extreme situation to send up office politics or corporate policies.
Saw
Insidious: Chapter 2 review: ghost of a chance
The simple elegance of the first film has been lost in a jumbled mess that sometimes hits on fresh angles on ghost stories but most often is shoddy, sloppy, and lazy.
I found the worst thing about Twilight (and other adventures in social networking)
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
The Raven (review)
There is too much awesome in this fantastic (and fantastical) premise for a proper geek girl such as myself to be properly rational about her anticipation. I know I expected too much. But, you know, the movie, it sort of promised a lot.
Shark Night 3D (trailer)
Where does the “night” part come in? Cuz it’s broad daylight in 99.99 percent of this trailer.
Insidious (review)
I can’t help but recall Eddie Murphy’s standup bit in which he suggested — this is decades ago now — that when a scary voice in your haunted house tells you to “Gettttt outtttt!” the best thing to do is leave…
trailer break: ‘Insidious’
Hollywood just isn’t even pretending anymore that they’re merely recycling the same stuff over and over again.
question of the day: ‘Killers’ not screening for critics; how long before nothing screens for critics?
It’s so common these days that I’ve stopped thinking about it as unusual: Lots of movies simply are not screened for critics before they open. (I’ve even stopped bothering to keep a list of these movies, which I did last year and started this year before it just got too depressing.) So I didn’t think … more…
‘Lost’ blogging: “The Package”
Here are the thoughts I jotted down, pretty much in order as they occurred to me as I watched…
North American box office: ‘Paranormal Activity’ performs supernaturally
The little horror movie that could just keeps on keeping on: 1. Paranormal Activity: $21.1 million (2nd week in wide release; more than doubled its number of screens; up 8%) 2. Saw VI: $14.1 million (NEW) 3. Where the Wild Things Are: $14 million (2nd week; drops 57%) 4. Law Abiding Citizen: $12.4 million (2nd … more…
