360 (review)
A subtle and striking globehopping ensemble drama of human interactions shaped by sex and love, honesty and deception, allure and retreat.
Valentine’s Day
What to Expect When You’re Expecting (review)
It’s intended to be delightful, but it feels as long as a pregnancy itself, this roundrobin of forcefully interconnected tales of incipient parenthood.
New Year’s Eve (review)
What are you doing New Year’s eve? Not seeing this cheap, lazy excuse for a movie, I hope…
New Year’s Eve (trailer)
Because Satan has been waiting for the moment to spring both Sarah Jessica Parker and Katherine Heigl on us in the same movie…
watch it: the hidden dangers e-cards and women present this Valentine’s Day
Girls: You just can’t trust ’em!
Razzie nominations are in!
Oh, the glorious awfulness!
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…
calling bullshit on: Owen Gleiberman at EW’s The Movie Critics…
…for deciding that two female action stars constitutes a “new normal”: It’s amusing to realize, in hindsight, that Luc Besson’s funky-violent French art-house thriller La Femme Nikita, in 1990, and its rote American remake, Point of No Return, in 1993, were still treating lady-killer heroines with kid gloves. At that point, seeing an actress like … more…
poster convergence: ‘Mother and Child’ and ‘Valentine’s Day’
It’s hip to be square. Home-ma-gawd, we have so many stars in our little movie here, the only way we can get them all on the poster is to do a Brady Bunch thing. (singing!) It’s the story Of a lovely movie That was so packed full of like the most totally awesome gorgeous movie … more…
North American box office: go ask ‘Alice,’ cuz she’s 10 feet tall
Impossible things: 1. Alice in Wonderland: $116.1 million (NEW) 2. Brooklyn’s Finest: $13.4 million (NEW) 3. Shutter Island: $13.2 million (3rd week; drops 42%) 4. Cop Out: $9.3 million (2nd week; drops 49%) 5. Avatar: $8.1 million actual numbers, not estimates This was the biggest March weekend ever, led by Alice, the biggest March opener … more…
