I’m not big on conspiracies, which might have me holding a wet paper bag and blubbering my lips when the bottom falls out, but there’s just a thousand too many going around and my anxiety quotient is already capped. I do, however, notice some things– like when I go to the grocery store and grab a tray of chicken breasts, only to get them home and discover one breast is as big as my head. That might be good for …
Month: April 2009
Yeah, I’ll admit: I’m bitter. My Utah Jazz lost to the Los Angeles Lakers in five games and Kobe Bryant gave me another reason to despise him more than I already do. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there will never be another Michael Jordan, blah, blah, blah. I get that. But Bryant (and Lebron James now, too) have this ability to literally will their teams to a victory. That’s part of the reason I want to punch Bryant in the soft parts. …
Leave it to those crazy Brits to keep churning out hilarious comedies. I hadn’t heard of the film “The Boat that Rocked” until receiving a press alert on Monday, but after seeing the trailer, it looks to be packed with talent and is directed by Richard Curtis, the man who helmed one of my favorite guilty pleasure movies of all-time (“Love Actually”). “The Boat that Rocked” is set in 1966 and tells the story of a fictitious pirate radio station, …
Chalk one up for the cheap domestic “thriller”. In the midst of tepid choices for new releases this weekend, the Beyonce Knowles/Ali Larter “Oh no you DI’N’T– he’s MY man!!” cat fight thriller Obsessed took in enough cash to win most watched move in America. I suppose it’s easy to knock the success of cheap entertainment this weekend and blame it on a lack of taste by way of the movie-going public, but with the next pandemic oinking at the …
Pixar, to date, has been sterling. Even their middling efforts (Cars, as most would say– but I’d disagree) hold to a higher entertainment standard than most films bust months of hump to achieve. The Disney/Looney Toon reminiscent shorts, the cute vignettes shown before the Pixar movie you’re paying to see, are usually equally stellar– just bite-sized. With this year’s Pixar project Up just a few weeks away, Pixar has released a snippet from the short preceding it: Partly Cloudy. If …
Since we’re in the era of the reboot (Star Trek, James Bond, Friday the 13th), why not get to rebooting some Predator— the quintessential high point of 80’s blow-em-up and a particularly sweaty menage-a-trois of muscle on guns on alien action. “Why not indeed”, I say. On the whole, I cling to very few action movies of the 80s– too much hair, too many trampolined bodies and never enough wince-worthy one liners. Of course, there’s always exceptions– mine just happens …
If there’s one thing about director Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean, The Ring) it’s that the guy knows how to make a movie look spectacular. Even if the Pirates movies, in spite of the first, turned into a slog of wet tentacle beards, giant crab-chicks, far too much belief in its own make-it-up-as-you-go-along mythology and a briney case of taking itself far too seriously, they all looked fantastic from start to finish. Of course, all that prettifying stuff takes …
Rob Zombie directed a remake of the 1978 horror classic “Halloween” that was met with tepid box office results in 2007. Apparently the studio was so thrilled to see it’s money flushed down the toilet, they greenlit a sequel, called “H2” and it’s hitting theaters this August. Click this link to get your first look at the somewhat-creepy trailer. I haven’t seen Zombie’s remake, but I have seen “The Devil’s Rejects,” so I’d expect gore, nudity and lots of bad …
Universal Pictures emailed me this one sheet for Sacha Baron Cohen’s new movie “Brüno,” due in theaters on July 10,2009. That’s two days before my birthday, so I suppose I can expect a Borat-sized gift of male nudity, dominatrix outfits, akwardly humorous bits involving unsuspecting real-life people (see: Ron Paul) and probably enough hype over perceived offensiveness to fill a summer’s worth of blog posting. Yay! Happy birthday to me! To see a bigger version, click here.
The Herald Journal published the 2009 Summer Movie Guide today and you can find links to all the trailers and a place to vent your aggreement or opposition at Andy at the Movies.com. Just click this link, or click the Summer Movie Guide link in the header above. Note: Thanks to Mr. Vinton for the snazzy graphic above. The man is a master!