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Posted on March 16, 2010
Once they hobble into theaters later this year, both the sequel to Sex and the City and Wall Street will be about outmoded characters living in a fantasy New York City of the past. But which one will suck harder?
Sex and the City 2 comes out May 27 and Wall Street: Some Bullshit Title After [...]
Posted on March 15, 2010
Last night HBO rolled out their new mega-miniseries The Pacific, about Americans fighting in the Pacific theater of World War II. We had high hopes. Were we let down?
I suppose it’s the whole mythos of World War II as “the Good War” that has captivated me for so long. There’s something so (understandably) vaunted [...]
Posted on March 8, 2010
The Oscars just finished. The Hurt Locker won, which wasn’t a surprise. Actually, there were hardly any surprises at all, except for maybe how long and lousy the broadcast was. Why can they never get this thing right?
Brian Moylan: As far as the awards go, all of the heavy favorites walked home with a trophy. [...]
Posted on February 22, 2010
50 Cent continues to earn the “actor” part of his “rapper-actor” moniker. The Hurt Locker wins a bunch of non-Oscar awards. Shutter Island wins the weekend. Betty White might host SNL. The Roundup cares about hockey. Do you?
•Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is pretty much retired from the rap “game”. Now he is an actor. His [...]
Posted on February 5, 2010
Indie films have become the lost children of Hollywood in recent years. Author Edward Jay Epstein explains why Hollywood is abandoning the indie movie business in favor of merchandisable CGI spectacles like Avatar.
If you are a producer of indie movies, the great sucking sound you may be hearing is Avatar draining money from your future [...]
Posted on January 30, 2010
Nick McDonell was 17 when he wrote 2002’s Twelve, about New York’s richkids experimenting with new superdrugs. Now it’s a Sundance movie, by Joel Schumacher, starring Chace Crawford, Emma Roberts, Keifer Sutherland, and 50 Cent. And it sucks. Terribly.
Via Page Six this morning:
Post critic Kyle Smith reports from Sundance that audiences were giggling at the [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on January 28, 2010
It is with heavy hand and heavy heart that we inform you today of the death of Miramax. The once-proud indie studio was 31 years old.
Though it had dwindled a bit in recent years, the studio built by Harvey and Bob Weinstein (named after their parents, Miriam and Max) will stand in history as the [...]
Posted on January 15, 2010
The Golden Globe Awards, Hollywood’s second-goldenest night (and certainly its globiest), will go down on live TV this Sunday night. Who will win? Who should win?? After the jump we’ll break down the big categories to figure it all out.
Because this is all just a preamble to the Oscars (nominations come out on February 2nd [...]
Posted on January 11, 2010
This weekend saw more huge numbers for the little chamber piece Avatar, an unsurprisingly British runner-up, and three debuts that didn’t go huge but did a-OK. Did you see any of these this weekend?
1) Avatar — $48.5 million
If you’re James Cameron — your big blue computer flea circus is, in four short weeks, the number [...]
Posted on January 8, 2010
Big Love — HBO’s beguilingly wonderful melodrama about a family living on the fringe — returns for its fourth season on Sunday night. You really should watch it. If you initially wrote it off as unsympathetic, give it another chance.
We’d been excited for the show’s premiere back in 2006, it just sounded so intriguing and [...]
