trailer break: ‘Flipped’
Looks cute enough, and it’s from director Rob Reiner…
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‘Inception’ attacks ‘X-Men: First Class’; pushing back against 3D; Lisbeth Salander does not eat pray love; more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused…
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (review)
Lo and behold and WTF, here’s adorkable Jay Baruchel getting molested by dancing mops as the literal replication of a 70-year-old cartoon forces its way into a movie where it clashes tonally, interrupts the plot, and just plain makes no sense.
question of the day: Are you suspicious when a studio tailors screening access to a film, as has happened with ‘Inception’?
We’re all familiar with this kind of situation: A studio has a stinker on its hands, so it frontloads the critical response by showing the film, weeks before it opens, to quote whores, entertainment “journalists” who aren’t critics but get their subsequently rapturous reactions splashed across posters and TV ads anyway. You know, they’re the … more…
trailer break: ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… It was only a couple of weeks ago that we saw the first teaser for the last Harry Potter flick (well, the first part of the last flick), but Warner Bros. is clearly determined to torture us all summer. We should have a Harry Potter movie now, … more…
going Godwin on ‘Toy Story 3’; why ‘Splice’ isn’t sci fi (and neither is ‘Minority Report’ anymore); more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
Green Lantern’s CGI wardrobe, cutting the cord to cable TV, sexy Shrek, and more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
how to create a male sex slave, Kevin Smith is fat, ‘FlashForward’s gonna suck, more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
because there’s no formula Hollywood can’t beat into the ground
A sequel to Valentine’s Day had already been just about greenlit last week, before it raked in $63 million this past four-day holiday weekend, according to Mike Fleming at Deadline Hollywood: Little wonder Warner Bros’ New Line is in love with the Garry Marshall-directed Valentine’s Day because of its formula of cramming more than a … more…
my week at the movies: ‘The Book of Eli,’ ‘Fish Tank’
Slow week while everyone except me jets off to Sundance. Warner Bros. is holding The Book of Eli (opens in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. on January 15) till Wednesday night, which doesn’t inspire great hope, but at least it is screening. It’s all about how Our Hero Denzel is carrying Viggo Mortensen’s flame … more…
