Archive for the 'Movies' Category

Preview: The Karate Kid takes on China

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Is it possible for a movie with a  trailer as electrifying as the new Karate Kid to fail? No, it’s not. The Karate Kid, a remake of the 80’s classic with the same name, might be as big of a hit as the original.
Plot
The story seems to be similar to the original. In the new [...]

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Pirates of the Caribbean posters.

300

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

Watch the trailer.
300 has topped the box office charts for this weekend, pulling in a whopping $70 million. That is bigger than the top opening of 2006 (Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, $68 million) and places it as the third highest opening weekend for a R-rated movie.
300 is based on the graphic comic by [...]

Preview: Nanny Diaries

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

When I first saw the poster for Nanny Diaries, I imagined it to be similar to the show Nanny 911 on Fox, where a British Nanny is brought in to straigten out some bratty kids. It’s a fun show to watch, especially when the British Nanny yells at the parents for being horrible people.
After viewing [...]

Preview: Paprika

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

Watch the trailer.
 This movie includes:
 Clarinet playing frogs …

 … cloud surfing …

 … fairies …

… and butterflies exploding out of a guy with two heads.

Words fail me.  I know anime tends to get a little weird, but this really takes the cake.  Probably not one for the kids either – rated R.
 Coming to theaters May 25, 2007.

Preview: In the Land of Women

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

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 Contrary to what the title suggests, this not a movie about group of women hanging out and man-hating at the local coffee shop.  Instead, it stars Adam Brody (TV’s The O.C.) as a guy who suffers a quarter-life-crisis after he gets dumped by his longtime girlfriend.  Desperate for a change of scenery, he [...]

Preview: Penelope

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Penelope is a woman with a pig nose, no friends, and a concerned mother (played by the mom from Home Alone). This seems to be basically Beauty and the Beast in reverse. This time the beast is a woman, and the beauty is a guy with a British accent. Here’s my prediction for how this [...]

Review: Hollywoodland

Sunday, February 4th, 2007

Hollywoodland explores the suicide of “Adventures of Superman” star George Reeves, which quickly became one of Hollywood’s most controversial deaths. Was it a suicide of a troubled actor whose career was fading? Or did somebody want him dead?
Reeves’s mother believes her son was murdered, and hires a private detective, Louis Simo (Adrien Brody), [...]

Preview: The Astronaut Farmer

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

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Ever play astronaut when you were a little kid, with your cardboard box “rocket ship” and your aluminum foil “astronaut suit”? Well, apparently somebody made it into a movie, but instead of a little kid, we get a 50-year old Billy Bob Thorton. Thorton plays a retired astronaut who never made [...]

Fired – Downsizing of the American workforce

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

FIRED
http://www.firedthemovie.com/
Featuring: Tim Allen, David Cross, Andy Dick, Tate Donovan, Andy Borowitz, Jeff Garlin, Richard Kind, Anne Meara, Bob Odenkirk, Robert Reich, Jeffrey Ross, Harry Shearer, Ben Stein, Sarah Silverman
Opens: This Friday February 2nd @ City Cinemas, Village East, NYC
If you spend any time at all in the workplace you’re going to get laid off, [...]