Welcome to Labor Day weekend, your final stop on the summer movie train. It’s the mini-wasteland between mid-summer blockbusters and the “serious” fall award hopefuls.
This weekend we’ve got five wide releases: an espionage thriller, an indie comedy, a sci-fi thriller, and two trashy teen laughers. Something for everyone right? Right? Guh.
:: TRAITOR
Rotten Tomatoes: 54 / 100
Metacritic: 60 […]
First, there were clips from Queens Boulevard. Then the fake trailer for the ill-fated Medellin. Now, the Entourage gang goes viral again with spot-on advertising for “Viking Quest The Game” and Viking Quest on DVD. For you non-Entourage nuts, Viking Quest is the TV claim-to-fame for the great Johnny Chase (Johnny Drama to you and me), […]
Last week, Woody Allen contributed faux “Spanish diary” excerpts to the New York Times, chronicling the making of Vicky Cristina Barcelona. There are plenty of links to the piece out there, but little opinion, so here’s mine: This is a joy to read, a throwback to Allen’s iconic style of humor from his early 1970s films (Everything You Always Wanted to […]
UPDATE (09.04.08) The Brothers Bloom has new release dates: December 19 in NY and LA; opening wide January 16, 2009.
ORIGINAL POST: There’s something new and different about The Brothers Bloom. It’s certainly not an original story (heck, even Lost has done every con man angle there is). But some of the actors and roles are surprising — like slapstick […]
UPDATE (08.27.08) Here’s news that takes the sing-along thing a step further: At tonight’s promotional screening in Boston, the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus will be leading the mass Mamma Mia! karaoke in the theater. So if you’re in Boston and going this evening, get ready to be intimidated. Just leave the singing to them. The idea came from the […]
This isn’t really a movie poster for Ron Howard’s upcoming Frost/Nixon. It’s the intriguing poster for the stage play, which stars the same leads Howard has cast in the film: Frank Langella as fallen U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and Michael Sheen (Tony Blair in The Queen) as TV talk-show host David Frost. We’re including it today since […]
