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Oh man, where did this week disappear to that I’m still doing last weekend’s box office reports on Friday? 1. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: £7.6 million (NEW) 2. Public Enemies: £2.22 million (NEW) 3. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: £2.21 million (3rd week; drops 49%) 4. The Hangover: £1.4 million (4th week; drops … more…
obsession: Doctor Who (I’m sad that I’m running out of Christopher Eccleston episodes to write about, except that that means I can start writing about the classic series) boyfriend: Bradley Cooper (and here’s where I need to make the distinction, again, between the actor and the characters he plays: sometimes my boyfriend is a character, … 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…
Punk-ass Decepticons… 1. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: £4.4 million (2nd week; drops 48%) 2. The Hangover: £1.9 million (3rd week; drops 1%) 3. Year One: £.98 million (NEW) 4. My Sister’s Keeper: £.92 million (NEW) 5. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian: £.49 million (actual numbers, not estimates) With a drop of … more…
And Michael Bay buys another fourteen mansions in the Caribbean: 1. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: $109 million (NEW) 2. The Proposal: $18.6 million (2nd week; drops 45%) 3. The Hangover: $17 million (4th week; drops 36%) 4. Up: $13 million 5. My Sister’s Keeper: $12.4 million (NEW) actual numbers, not estimates That $109 million … more…
Here’s something else we can blame Michael Bay for: making film critics the most hated people in America, at least for the moment. This is not at all ironic, because Bay’s movie panders (as all his movies do) to the most unthinking, uncritical, unself-aware reflexes of lowest-common-denominator audiences. I am not saying that everyone who … more…
opening wide Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: We do not negotiate with Decepticons, okay? Let’s roll. My Sister’s Keeper: Have you heard? It’s very sad when people die of cancer. I had no idea. So glad someone told me. opening limited The Hurt Locker: Maybe we could send Jeremy Renner to disarm that bit of … more…
That beauty? The creativity of film critics reaching to new heights of metaphor and poetry in our attempts to encapsulate just how the experience of a bad film impacted us. At the moment, that bad film that is inspiring so much cleverness is, of course, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I wish I’d come up … more…
Just a quick look at last weekend as we head into this one: 1. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: £8.3 million (NEW) 2. The Hangover: £2.2 million (2nd week; drops 30%) 3. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian: £.82 million 4. Terminator Salvation: £.8 million (3rd week; drops 59%) 5. Angels & Demons: … more…
We all know how it is. You’d like to get out to see a new movie this weekend, but those pesky mental messages from the Allspark filling your head are compelling you to take a mysterious trip around the world. But you can have something close to that blockbuster experience on the road with the … more…
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