question of the day: What actresses should play Shakespeare’s great male characters?
Woo-hoo! Helen Mirren is going to play Prospero — the wizard has been redubbed Prospera — for a new film adaptation of The Tempest from director Julie Taymor…
Tilda Swinton
new this week in U.S., Canadian, and U.K. theaters: ‘Despicable Me,’ ‘Predators,’ ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,’ more
U.S. AND CANADA/OPENING WIDE Despicable Me: “It’s so fluffy I’m gonna die!” is my new go-to phrase for when I’m excited about anything. If you can’t make it to the multiplex, try: • The Incredibles (2004): the last great animated movie about supervillains (and the superheroes who thwart them). • 101 Dalmatians (1961): For one … more…
I Am Love (review)
Tilda Swinton, matriarch of a ridiculously wealthy Milan family, has sex with a man not her husband. And she *likes* it. So she must be punished.
new this week in U.S., Canadian, and U.K. theaters: ‘Jonah Hex,’ ‘Toy Story 3,’ ‘Killers,’ ‘MacGruber,’ more
U.S. AND CANADA/OPENING WIDE Jonah Hex: Josh Brolin is a disfigured half-zombie gunfighter in the weird Old West. And it’s kinda not a comedy. [trailer] review to come If you can’t make it to the multiplex, try: • The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.: The Complete Series (1993): The sadly short-lived Fox TV series is … more…
trailer break: ‘I Am Love’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Oh, Tilda Swinton, I do love you something fierce. I wish I loved this movie that much… I Am Love is now playing in the U.K.; it opens theatrically in the U.S. and Canada on June 18.
U.K. box office: ‘Titans’ drops big but clings to the top
And it’s deja vu for the rest of the top five: 1. Clash of the Titans: £2.4 million (2nd week; drops 57%) 2. How to Train Your Dragon: £1.4 million (2nd week; drops 71%) 3. Kick-Ass: £1.19 million (2nd week; drops 69%) 4. Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang: £1.18 million (3rd week; drops 55%) … more…
Tilda Swinton = Conan O’Brien
Conan O’Brien has suggested that Tilda Swinton portray him in a proposed, mostly imaginary potential HBO movie about the Tonight Show debacle… and she’s onboard with the idea. She told Movieline: I would just be only too happy. Yes, yes, yes, absolutely. Of course, she’s bent genders before, in Orlando and Constantine. But I’d venture … more…
January 22: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, except your kid is sick and the doctors don’t know what you do about it, so you’re gonna be busy revolutionizing medical science in your garage. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right … more…
sixty-seven cents on the dollar would be an improvement…
…misogynist vampire stories suck, Tilda Swinton takes the cinematic highroad, and more. It’s The Week in Women, my regular doings over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Enjoy, and for all my readers in the U.S., happy Fourth of July. To everyone else, happy Saturday.
my week at the movies: ‘Battle for Terra,’ ‘The Limits of Control,’ ‘Fighting,’ ‘Obsessed’
I quite liked Battle for Terra (opens in the U.S. on May 1; no U.K. release date has been announced yet) when I saw it at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, when it had the gentler moniker of simply Terra. I guess that was too gentle: everyone likes a good war, right? I’m looking forward … more…
