Tyler Perry Tyler Perry Tyler Perry Tyler Perry 1 Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married $21,500,000 $10,691 $21,500,000 2 The Game Plan $11,506,000 (-30.7%) $3,678 $59,447,000 3 Michael Clayton $11,010,000 (+1,429.4%) $4,384 $12,087,000 4 We Own the Night $11,000,000 $4,657 $11,000,000 5 The Heartbreak Kid $7,425,000 (-47.0%) $2,296 $26,001,000 6 Elizabeth: The Golden Age … Continue reading
Diary of the Dead disappoints… by being too good. How’s that for a weird critique? If Land of the Dead was George Romero’s post-9/11/Iraq War zombie movie, Diary is his flat out 9/11 film. It’s back to the night of the living dead, except it’s taking place today. The world is obviously a very different … Continue reading
Sylvester Stallone didn’t get to be one of the most successful movie stars of the 1980s by ignoring the demands of his fan base. While he may be a long way past his blockbuster prime, Stallone is still savvy enough to know when anything from a story element to a title isn’t clicking with the … Continue reading
If you like your Jessica Alba trailers with lots of ass and abs, you’re going to have to dust off your copy of Into the Blue. After you pick it up from the Big Box $2.99 discount bin, that is.In the mean time, shed a few salty tears of sorrow over a regularly clothed Jessica … Continue reading
Does anyone know the pros and cons of cities built on Rock and Roll? It seems there hasn’t been a lot of forward movement on this. Was it not environmentally sound?IT’S TOO BAD JESSE JAMES WON’T LIVE… THEN AGAIN, WHO DOES?Blade Runner hit two screens last weekend, and as one would guess one was in … Continue reading
With one film, Paul Verhoeven’s masterful Black Book, Carice van Houten has proven herself the deadliest Nordic import since Lena Olin never mind my geographical ignorance, she just reminds me of Lena Olin. Combining the wanton sensuality and feral ruthlessness of Olin’s characters from The Unforgivable Lightness of Being and Romeo is Bleeding, van Houten’s … Continue reading
With Southland Tales finally finished (and set for limited release from Samuel Goldwyn Films on November 9th), Richard Kelly is now free at last, free at last to roll on his long-delayed third feature, The Box. Scripted by Eli Roth, The Box is based on a Richard Matheson short story, "Button, Button", about a housewife … Continue reading
Last year I sat down in front of a camera and swore like a sailor with Tourrete’s – even going so far as to call respected film critic Leonard Maltin a twatmuffin. The fruits of that session were woven into a documentary called Heckler, about the relationship between comedians and their audiences and filmmakers and … Continue reading
Just in case the news that Simon Pegg has been cast as Scotty in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek wasn’t weird enough for you today, now we hear that John Cho – the guy from Harold and Kumar! – has been cast as Sulu. One of the Tremor Brothers from Smokin’ Aces as Kirk. Sylar from … Continue reading
Zack Snyder knows how this game works. He’s high up on lists right now based on the success of 300, but Watchmen could change things really fast, either for the better or worse. So he’s already got a couple projects lined up for after Watchmen: Army of the Dead and Sucker Punch, both of which … Continue reading