Lay the Favourite (trailer)
I’m always in for a new movie from Stephen Frears. But I do feel like I’ve seen this movie a hundred times before.
Stephen Frears
trailer break: ‘Tamara Drewe’
Loves me a Stephen Frears film. And this one is based on a graphic novel that is based on Thomas Hardy. And it’s about writers. And it’s about England. And it’s got one or two cute guys in it.
my week at the movies: ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,’ ‘St. Trinian’s,’ ‘No Impact Man,’ ‘Lorna’s Silence’
My plan for tonight: 1) Chinese food at Ollie’s Noodle Shop. 2) See Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (opens in the U.S. and the U.K. on July 15) at a screening scheduled to start at 8:30pm. 3) Get out of the theater by 11:15, 11:30 at the latest, hopefully, given that the film is … more…
my week at the movies: ‘Land of the Lost,’ ‘The Hangover,’ ‘Surveillance,’ ‘Imagine That,’ ‘Cheri,’ ‘Downloading Nancy,’ ‘Sex Positive’
I’m not expecting much from Land of the Lost (opens in the U.S. on June 5, and in the U.K. on July 31) — certainly nothing along the lines of the weird-ass freaky science fiction shit that blew my mind as an eight-year-old watching the original Saturday morning TV show. If it’s as mildly amusing … more…
trailer break: ‘Cheri’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Hooray! It’s an older woman-younger man romance. Or sex romp, at least. It’s based on the naughty novels by turn-of-the-20th-century French author Colette, so perhaps it will be free of the bizarre hangups we seem to have developed about sex in our pop culture in the last … more…
