new this week in U.S., Canadian, and U.K. theaters: ‘Knight and Day,’ ‘Grown...
U.S. AND CANADA/OPENING WIDE Knight and Day: Tom Cruise does some spy stuff and runs around a lot, while Cameron Diaz does a lot of screaming and runs around like a girl. If you can’t make it to the...
View Articlequestion of the day: Is there ever a good reason to open a movie on any day...
Last week the Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz action comedy Knight and Day opened on a Wednesday, ostensibly to avoid the Friday opening, two days later, of the Adam Sandler “family” comedy Grown Ups. It looks...
View Articlemale gaze alert: ‘Grown Ups’
[some might consider this a spoiler for one of the jokes that Adam Sandler and Fred Wolf probably think is one of the more clever ones in their script. tough shit] Oh, Grown Ups, you are too, too...
View Articlewtf: ‘Hunchback of Notre Dame’ done up funny
Just when you think the shamelessness and the senselessness of Hollywood can’t possibly get any shamelesser or senselesser, Variety is there to correct this misapprehension: Paramount has snagged an...
View Articletrailer break: ‘Just Go With It’
Why? Why must we be continually subjected to Adam Sandler? Why won’t he just go away? (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View Articlequestion of the day: What would be the best Christmas present Hollywood could...
My request: An across-the-board, industrywide contractual obligation that if a movie isn’t awesome, it doesn’t get released. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View ArticleJust Go with It (review)
Is it any wonder that is always seems to be Jennifer Aniston, America’s It Girl, who gets screwed by spectacularly selfish men who embody this new American ideal of “Do whatever you want, to whomever...
View Articlecelebrity headlines I’d love to see
The Guardian’s headline about the marriage of two movie stars somehow elevates it above the level of mere gossip and turns it into something nearly shocking... (please click through for commenting,...
View ArticleJack and Jill (trailer)
Wow. I didn’t think Adam Sandler could sink any lower. But he has. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View Articlequestion of the day: Has Hollywood abandoned young men?
Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean, Thor, Green Lantern, X-Men, Captain America, etc. This is what 2011 looks like at the movies. In what way can it be construed that young men are “endangered” at...
View ArticleJack and Jill (review)
There has always been something meanspirited about drag, but the meanness of this appalling movie descends to a cruel new low... (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View ArticleAlex “Repo Man” Cox insists you pirate his movies (and other adventures in...
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw yesterday and today... (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View ArticleAdam Sandler sweeps the Razzies (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today... (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View ArticleThat’s My Boy (redband and greenband trailers)
Difficult as it may be to believe, the greenband trailer for this film is far more offensive than the redband... (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View ArticleCandy Land is most dreaded upcoming board-game adaptation, say readers of...
Results via a totally unscientific poll conducted on Facebook... (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View Articleif R-rated movies were kids’ books (and other adventures in social networking)
Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today... (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View ArticleTed (review)
“I need a man, not a little boy with a teddy bear.” This is a shocking thing to hear in a piece of American pop culture in the early 21st century... (please click through for commenting, social...
View ArticleHere Comes the Boom (trailer)
Oh my god, they’re not even kidding with this, are they? This is a real movie, isn’t it? For puny values of both real and movie, of course. (please click through for commenting, social networking,...
View Articleit was a long four-movie day (and other adventures in social networking)
Stuff my followers on Facebook and Twitter saw today... (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View ArticleBenedict Cumberbatch + Monty Python — this is real (and other adventures in...
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today... (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
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