A whole bunch of movies flew into theaters like the titular owls in ‘Legend of the Guardians’ this weekend, but only one could take home the top spot – and it wasn’t the owls. Instead, Michael Douglas’ serpentine return as Gordon ...
Take heart, America! A bunch of worthy movies open this weekend. Besides the above-average ‘Wall Street’ sequel, there are mighty owls for the whole family, and a romantic comedy that has a bright, silver, ’80s-pop lining, even if...
As I’ve stated, time and time again, the women of ‘Mad Men’ are way more interesting than the titular bad boys. As great as last week’s introspective Don episode was, we got a lot more time with the women this week, and we’re all ...
There’s a reason that everyone has been renting or buying or Netflix-ing the shit out of the original ‘Wall Street‘ in preparation for the sequel. For all its zeitgeist-capturing zest, it’s a remarkably conventional film, both in ...
Ben Affleck’s Boston-set crime drama ‘The Town’ took the top spot at the weekend box office with a cool $23.6 million. For a movie about bank robbers (which, no, I still haven’t seen yet), it carried off a pretty solid haul. I don...
This weekend serves up a veritable Pu-Pu platter of cinematic tastes. It has everything from heist thrillers to high concept horror to questionable documentary to teen sex comedy – and, probably, everything in-between. I haven’t s...
This season on ‘Mad Men,’ we’ve been getting all sorts of insight into Don Draper – Don Draper the divorced bachelor, Don Draper the sloppy drunk, Don Draper the doting father… and all points (some of them terribly unappealing) in...
I may have walked out of ‘Resident Evil: Afterlife,’ but that doesn’t mean everybody did. It was the only major studio movie this weekend and it locked down 2,000 of the country’s 3,203 3-D screens. That’s more about math than any...
So this isn’t technically a review, because I didn’t watch the whole movie. I’ll say that I watched about forty minutes of the new, oh-no-zombies-all-over-the-place sci-fi/horror yarn ‘Resident Evil: Afterlife’ before bailing. It ...
So this is the lull between the blockbuster summer and the more prestigious fall. Whew. Times are tough. There is basically only one major new release this week, and it’s one that almost all of us could do without. (I didn’t get a...
This week’s episode of ‘Mad Men’ – which many are proclaiming to be, in the words of Comic Book Guy, the “Best. Episode. Ever.” – is a delayed gratification hour of television whose brilliance doesn’t openly present itself. Instea...
Despite the holiday, not too many people bothered to show up at the multiplexes this weekend. Instead, they chose to take part in those time-honored American traditions of spending time with the family, enjoying outdoor cook-outs,...
