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Posted on December 28, 2009
Just because Nine, which opened this weekend, sucked doesn’t mean that it has nothing to teach us. For instance, it can tell us how to keep a disaster like Nine from happening again.
For those of you who don’t know, Nine is based on a (barely remembered) Broadway musical of the same name which was in [...]
Posted on December 21, 2009
Her story was a Hollywood dream: the prodigiously talented teenager who worked her way from regional theater to big-screen blockbusters alongside Oscar nominees. But then her star power fizzled, her personal life disintegrated, and she met a grisly end.
So how do we talk about Brittany Murphy now?
In the final years of her too-short life (which [...]
Posted on December 16, 2009
With all the controversy over Jersey Shore’s enthusiastic use of the term “guido”, we figured a montage set to “Cinema Italiano” from the new film Nine—in which Kate Hudson repeatedly shrieks “Guido, Guido, Guido!”—was only appropriate.
A Real Life Jersey Shore Protest [FourFour]
Related: New ‘Nine’ Trailer: Anyone Rooting For A Kate Hudson Comeback? [EW]
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Continue ReadingPosted on December 15, 2009
The hacks of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association have taken a pause from endless junketeering to release their list of the year’s most excellent movies and TV shows. Up in the Air and Avatar continue their inexorable awards march.
Here’s the raw data:
1. BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
a. AVATAR
Lightstorm Entertainment; Twentieth Century Fox
b. THE HURT LOCKER
Voltage [...]
Posted on December 10, 2009
Are you a There Will Be Blood kinda guy, or an Eternal Sunshine kinda gal? The choice of our favorite movie of the decade is one of the most important we as individuals can make.
There is no more personal act in the contemporary society than compiling a Best Of List. Since Congress decreed that people [...]
Posted on December 10, 2009
Next week the world’s critics will have their (completely meaningless) say about whether James Cameron’s 3D extravaganza was worth waiting a decade for. But today, a couple British papers are jumping the gun to say it didn’t suck.
While the evidence has mounted that Avatar will turn out to be a laughably earnest ham-handed quasi-environmental parable, [...]
Posted on November 30, 2009
When a franchise dies, all of Hollywood sheds a tear. But when a franchise dies prematurely, while it still has years of cash to give, Hollywood goes to battle stations. And tonight, Hollywood stands on the brink.
Today the news broke that Hollywood 19th highest grossing franchise in all history may be in jeopardy. According to [...]
Posted on November 17, 2009
The decade in cinema is ready to go out with a bang; with six weeks left in 2009, Paul Blart: Mall Cop is the 13th highest grossing film of the year; a fact which says everything and nothing.
But as the 00’s slip away without anyone having given them a decent nickname, its time to start [...]
Posted on November 13, 2009
Buyer beware this weekend at the box office. There’s a little something targeted for everybody out there, but every film comes with some major red flags.
2012
The Story: As per Mayan predictions, the world ends a few years from now and John Cusack leads a band of survivors who try to figure out just what to [...]
Posted on November 11, 2009
We may not have anything left of our environment or economy by 2010, but at least we’ll have something to keep us interested in the cinema. And the marketing machine is already starting. Check out the coming attractions!
So far the only things that are really releasing trailers are the big budget comedies and action pictures. [...]
