As the first big ol’ movie to kick off the summer season, Spider-Man 3 is only three and a half months away. As the the line of demarcation between May 4 and Spidey fans grows thinner, the Spider-Man 3 website grows fatter. And by fatter I mean filled with all kinds of webby Spider-Fan minutia. … Continue reading
I want to aologize for the tardiness of this column. I was up at 7:45 this morning waiting with my laptop on my lap (which I hate to do for fear of burning "the boys"), and then nohing was happening on ABC at 8:05am. Then on the Oscar site, I saw PM listed as the … Continue reading
This contains no news. It is not terribly interesting. It’s just a bloggy recap of my first day in London. Read no further if you could care less. If you read further, don’t complain about a lack of relevance. All relevance has been carefully removed from this piece by experts. When I arrived in London, … Continue reading
One of the oddest choices of the Spider-Man franchise thus far has been the inclusion of Dr. Curt Connors, played by Dylan Baker (a man who has done a fantastic job of overcoming a very signature role of cinema’s creepiest pedophile in Happiness), in all three movies. Fans of the comics know that Dr. Connors … Continue reading
Rumpled and cynical, Clive Owen was like a noir character let loose in an apocalyptic landscape in Children of Men. The actor also explored some noir-ish territory in Sin City (and, to an extent, in the terrible Derailed) and even in Croupier, the movie that made his name in the US. Now he’s taking his … Continue reading
Rank Title Weekend Gross Cumulative Gross Weeks in Release 1 Stomp the Yard $13,300,000 $41,564,000 2 2 Night at the Museum $13,000,000 $205,840,000 5 3 Dreamgirls $8,711,000 $78,118,000 6 4 The Hitcher $8,234,000 $8,234,000 1 5 The Pursuit of Happyness $6,700,000 $146,511,000 6 6 Freedom Writers $5,564,000 $26,882,000 3 7 Pan’s Labyrinth $4,725,000 $10,155,000 4 … Continue reading
Spider-Man has been the rare gift that keeps on giving- both to fans and to its studio, Sony Pictures. So far, it’s working for everyone and Sony’s doing their damndest to keep it that way. Riding the buzz train that will be Spider-Man 3, word on both Sycamore and Cherry Lane- i.e.- the streets (according … Continue reading
24 hours after my first viewing of Hot Fuzz I am still chuckling over small moments and big jokes. I’m not allowed to write a review of the film yet, but I don’t think anyone is going to mind that I tell you that Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost do not suffer from … Continue reading
The Green Zone is where, in the days after the fall of Iraq, Paul Bremer and his gang of Coalition Provisional Authority goons tried to run the rebuilding of the country. Here’s an image of just how doomed to failure this was: every meal, every day, served in the Green Zone cafeteria, which was staffed … Continue reading
300 is a film that’s getting humped every which way from the film geek crowd (I’m doing my duty around the ankle parts), but one I haven’t heard a lot of buzz around from the mainstream movie goer. When March 9 rolls around, it will be interesting to see if the masses jump on board. … Continue reading