films to stream in the UK week of Aug 26 2013 (Netflix/LoveFilm/blinkbox/BBC...
What’s new, what’s hot, and what you may have missed, now available to stream on Netflix, LoveFilm, blinkbox, and BBC iPlayer. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
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View ArticleBad Words redband trailer: bee with a sting
Will it be Bad Santa, or bad Adam Sandler? (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View Articlewhat’s on Netflix UK, blinkbox, BBC iPlayer (from Feb 17)
What’s new, what’s hot, and what you may have missed, now available to stream, including Serenity, Closed Circuit, Ender’s Game, and more. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags,...
View ArticleWalk of Shame movie review: Slut Shaming, The Motion Picture
If you don’t think it’s hilarious that a woman dressed for a night out would “naturally” be mistaken for a prostitute, there is nothing here for you. (please click through for commenting, social...
View ArticleBlended movie review: smug addiction
Adam Sandler goes to Africa, via the tampon aisle, and assumes you’ll agree with him that racism and sexism are family values worth celebrating. (please click through for commenting, social networking,...
View Articlemovies I can’t wait to see at the 58th BFI London Film Festival
LFF is a veritable orgy of cinema, and I love it. It’s exhausting, but I love it. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View ArticleMen, Women & Children movie review (London Film Festival)
Jason Reitman is way too young to have produced a work of such fuddy-duddy handwringing over These Kids (And Adults) Today and how we play with our e-toys. (please click through for commenting, social...
View ArticleTop Five movie review: funnyman black-and-blues
Writer, director, and star Chris Rock is so close to something great here, but he gives in too easily to the unchallenging and the very conventional. (please click through for commenting, social...
View ArticlePixels movie review: blue screen of death (please)
Adam Sandler imagines himself as the savior of the planet. And then it gets even more puffed up with arrogance and all manner of masturbatory fantasy. (please click through for commenting, social...
View Articlefrom Facebook: why the manchild movie needs to die
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View ArticleHotel Transylvania 2 movie review: check out and never return
The barrage of nonstop sitcom idiocy is nigh on unendurable. A father plotting against his daughter as touching and uplifting? Way worse. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags,...
View ArticleSisters movie review: women are messed-up people too
The just-right mix of wistfulness, snark, and painful personal growth makes this nonstop hilarious, with humor that gets women in a way movies rarely do. (please click through for commenting, social...
View ArticleThe Mermaid (Mei ren yu) movie review: the biggest movie on the planet you...
A wacky fantasy lark, half screwball comedy, half Looney Tunes. Chinese audiences have thrown half a billion dollars at it. Prepare for Hollywood imitators. (please click through for commenting, social...
View ArticleJuly 31: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but Adam Sandler dying of some awful disease isn’t your idea of a good time. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a...
View ArticleNorth American box office: ‘Funny People’ not laughing so much
It wasn’t a terribly happy opening for the Apatow/Sandler flick: 1. Funny People: $22.7 million (NEW) 2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: $17.9 million (3rd week; drops 39%) 3. G-Force: $17.5...
View ArticleNorth American box office: ‘G.I. Joe’ no!
Joe’s ohs are lots of zeroes at the end of its weekend tally: 1. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra: $54.7 million (NEW) 2. Julie & Julia: $20 million (NEW) 3. G-Force: $9.9 million (3rd week; drops 44%)...
View ArticleNBC’s business plan: burn money, then burn more money
Item: NBC will pay Conan O’Brien a severance of $40 million— no, wait, maybe it’s $45 million. Well, some of the dough will go to O’Brien’s laid-off staffers, but still: that’s a ton of money to not...
View ArticleGrown Ups (review)
Is it too overblown to suggest that what passes for the modern American mainstream comedy has finally descended into the downright sociopathic? (please click through for commenting, social networking,...
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