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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 ArticleFast & Furious 8 (aka The Fate of the Furious) movie review: notes from the...
EMPs and nukular codes and cyber crap and submarines, oh my! “What does this have to do with us?” Michelle Rodriguez cries, and I’m like I know, right? (please click through for commenting, social...
View ArticleUncut Gems movie review: diamond in the blech (#LFF2019)
There is real cinematic tension in this own-worst-enemy tale of addiction and its ever escalating series of bad bets. But Adam Sandler’s unfettered arrogance renders it far from endearing or fun....
View ArticleOFCS 2019 awards winners announced
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View ArticleAWFJ 2019 EDA Awards winners announced
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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 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%)...
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NBC’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...
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Grown Ups (review)
Heartless Shameless Ugliness Is it too overblown to suggest that what passes for the modern American mainstream comedy has finally descended into the downright sociopathic? The relentless cruelty of...
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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...
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male 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? It is possible that anyone watching this trailer doesn’t know that he ends up with Jennifer Aniston by the end of...
View Articlequestion of the day: What would be the best Christmas present Hollywood could...
If you haven’t already written your letter to Santa Claus, time to get cracking. Since I’m sure you’ll have some movie-related gift requests, here’s one to think about: What would be the best Christmas...
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