Bad Teacher (review)
A refreshing breath of just-so-wrongness in today’s movie milieu.
Year One
trailer break: ‘Bad Teacher’
This is awesome. The world desperately needs a movie about a horrible, shallow, mean, angry, bitter, stupid person.
U.K. box office: ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’ keeps blowing stuff up
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…
North American box office: ‘The Proposal’ in wedded bliss with audiences
Ah god, we’ll never see the end of stupid rom-coms now: 1. The Proposal: $33.6 million (NEW) 2. The Hangover: $26.8 million (3rd week; drops 18%) 3. Up: $23.5 million (4th week; drops 24%) 4. Year One: $19.6 million (NEW) 5. The Taking of Pelham 123: $12 (2nd week; drops 49%) actual numbers, not estimates … more…
opening in the U.S. and Canada June 19: ‘The Proposal,’ ‘Year One,’ Whatever Works,’ ‘Dead Snow,’ ‘The Windmill Movie’
opening wide The Proposal: Remember how we decided to get married, honey? It was so romantic, what with you threatening my career and all… *sigh* Year One: Or maybe they could call the sequel Year One: Number 2, and then they could get a shit joke right in the title. opening limited Whatever Works: Woody … more…
opening in the U.K. June 19: ‘Year One,’ ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,’ ‘Miss March,’ ‘Away We Go,’ ‘Moon,’ more
Year One: Oh god, there’s gonna be a sequel, isn’t there? Year Two? For the love of Brian, someone make it stop… Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: By the time I see this come Monday afternoon, its debut-weekend fate in the U.K. will already be known. Weird. [trailer] Miss March: Man, we are just dumping … more…
Year One (review)
Thanks so much, everyone involved in *Year One,* for setting back the noble causes of blasphemy, rational thinking, and humanism about a century.
June 19: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We all know how it is. You’d like to get out to see a new movie this weekend, but the Old Testament stippled with fart jokes ain’t your idea of a good time. But you can have something close to that blockbuster experience at home with the proper application of DVDs. In fact, you might … more…
my week at the movies: ‘The Stoning of Soraya M.,’ ‘My Sister’s Keeper,’ ‘Year One,’ ‘Humpday’
I saw a woman in Manhattan the other day completely covered, head to foot, in shapeless robes, with only the narrowest slit allowing her to see. Her husband was taking a picture of her in front of tourist attraction, and I thought, What’s the point of taking a picture of someone you can’t even see? … more…
