THE BIJOU REVIEW: “30 Minutes Or Less”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE BIJOU: Boxoffice Footnotes – 9/2/11
> Apart from the usual hosannas to THE HELP’s remarkable staying power, there’s not much to be said about this weekend’s wide releases. APOLLO 18 and SHARK NIGHT are both flops that will be hard-pressed ...
THE BIJOU: Boxoffice Footnotes – 8/6/11
> RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES has a slew of positives going for it commercially: the reportedly fairly low $93M production cost, the month of August ahead with its limited competition, strong support from an older audi...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “The Woman In the Fifth”
> Pawel Pawlikowski is a filmmaker whose name deserves to be better known: his films Last Resort and My Summer of Love are small but beautifully realized stories of intricate human emotion. His new picture The Woman In the Fift...
THE BIJOU BOXOFFICE: UPDATED: Not-Yet-Final Friday Numbers
> Fuller numbers are in, and they show a surprising near-tie on Friday between RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, THE HELP and FINAL DESTINATION 5, all at $7.3-7.8M for the day. The Apes have the presumptive advantage over t...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW: ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”
Pending the arrival of this week’s finale, Mike Newell’s 2005 HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE may be, on balance, the most satisfying of the series. It combines first-rate moviemaking with one of J.K. R...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Gus Van Sant’s “Restless”
> Gus Van Sant has been making movies for 25 years, but Restless–apart from its technical polish–feels like the work of a Sundance newcomer. And one who’s been reading too much Salinger, while meanwhile wearin...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Adventures of Tintin”
THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: Worth A Ticket – The Return of Steven Spielberg Remember how lousy the last Indiana Jones movie was? Remember watching it and wondering sadly what had become of Steven Spielberg...
BIJOU BOXOFFICE: FRIDAY STUDIO SCORECARD – 11/18/11
> BREAKING DAWN PART 1: Christmas comes but once a year, and for Summit that day is the 24 hours after a Twilight movie opens. (A little credit to the studio, too, for not fudging the numbers, which would have been ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “J. Edgar”
J. EDGAR: Watch It At Home – Brokeback Hoover It’s a little unexpected that of all the films Clint Eastwood has directed, his new biography J. EDGAR most resembles The Bridges of Madison Count...
BIJOU BOXOFFICE: Weekend Studio Scorecard – 12/11/11
> NEW YEAR’S EVE (Warners): Hardly any bump from Saturday night couples meant about as low an opening as anyone could have reasonably imagined. Even with some play during Christmas week, the picture may strugg...