Archive for June, 2009
Thursday Threes: The Answer
by Locke Peterseim | June 26th, 2009 | Filed under: ThreesYesterday I said someone other than Millar74, Jason, or Joe Allen had to cowboy up and win one of these things. Of course what happens? Well, Millar74 sorta wins it, though she says she doesn't deserve it because she had to "get assistance." Isn't she sweet, ladies and gentlemen? (Pssst, Millar… everyone looks it up… [...]
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I Think They Should Just Play the Lotto Instead
by Erika Olson | June 26th, 2009 | Filed under: TrailersThe first thirty seconds of the preview for The Box had me shaking my head back and forth slowly, wishing that director Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) hadn't let Cameron Diaz attempt a Southern drawl in his adaptation of Richard Matheson's short story Button, Button. But I forgot all about the unnatural accent once the complete [...]
Read Full Post 1 CommentThe Rocchi Files: Some Modest Proposals for the Oscars
by James Rocchi | June 26th, 2009 | Filed under: UncategorizedWhile it's hard to have too much sympathy for people whose red-carpet, black-tie lives we can only barely imagine, let's take a moment to put ourselves inside the lives of the people at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. As Locke wrote on Wednesday, facing declining ratings for the Oscars (and a correlating [...]
Read Full Post 1 CommentThe Real-Life Devil Wears Prada
by Erika Olson | June 25th, 2009 | Filed under: TrailersAs will become abundantly clear in my upcoming review of Confessions of a Shopaholic, I don't really "get" high fashion (she writes while sitting comfortably in her daily uniform of Old Navy cargo shorts, a Gap t-shirt and flip-flops). However, I still find the inner workings of the clothing industry intriguing. Who dreams up the [...]
Read Full Post 1 CommentTransformers 2: The Robo-Beating We Richly Deserve
by Locke Peterseim | June 25th, 2009 | Filed under: Theatrical ReviewsTo be clear, Transformers: Repossession of the Fallen or whatever is an awful, reprehensible movie that is, as of today, on pace to break all sorts of box-office records. And that, I’m shocked to say, I didn’t absolutely despise as much as I expected to. But then, that’s the key: I expected to really, REALLY [...]
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by Locke Peterseim | June 25th, 2009 | Filed under: ThreesOkay, if Jason, Joe Allen, or Millar74 win this one, we may have to consider benching them… let the other kids on the team play a bit… Or at least give them a handicap of some sort… Any ideas? Thursday Threes! You get three films, you tell me what one actor was in all three. [...]
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Inkheart
by Erika Olson | June 25th, 2009 | Filed under: DVD ReviewsMortimer Folchart (Brendan Fraser) has a secret: he's a Silvertongue. And whenever a Silvertongue reads aloud from a book, he (or she) causes some of the story's characters to be swept off of the page and into the real world. That might be pretty cool… if a living, breathing person wasn't also sucked into the [...]
Read Full Post 1 CommentMy Sister’s Keeper
by James Rocchi | June 25th, 2009 | Filed under: Theatrical ReviewsWe live, as someone once noted, in a cynical world. (It was either Socrates or Jerry Maguire; I'm always confusing the two.) And so, the idea of seeing My Sister's Keeper, a new medical melodrama from director Nick Cassavetes (who seems to have an affection for this kind of thing, from the muscular medical thriller [...]
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by Locke Peterseim | June 24th, 2009 | Filed under: ThreesFetch the pail! All of a sudden Jason is en fuego! He goes months and months having never won the Threes, and now he's nabbed two Tuesdays in a row. Jason now has the much coveted "matching medals," one for each side of the chest. All homemade from construction paper, of course. Millar74 remains no [...]
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by Locke Peterseim | June 24th, 2009 | Filed under: Award ShowsIt's odd talking Oscar when we're in the middle of the Great Transformers Cineplex Domination (though Michael Bay totally has a shot at Best Director of Robot Flatulence), but the Academy slid out some major news today. Starting this winter, there will be 10-count-'em-10 movies nominated for Best Picture, instead of the five that have [...]
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