THE BIJOU REVIEW: “One Day”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”
TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY: Worth A Ticket – An Epic of Betrayals John LeCarre is (I guess one should say “arguably”) the greatest of all spy novelists, and his 1974 TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, ...
THE BIJOU: UPDATED–Early Weekend Boxoffice Results
> Deadline has a more complete set of Saturday numbers, and the news just gets better and better for RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES. It now appears the picture didn’t drop at all from Friday, and it could edge as hi...
THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Bad Teacher” – Passable
> Worth A Ticket: Grade It On A Curve In 1999, Jake Kasdan directed a project set in high school that starred Jason Segel and featured Dave (Gruber) Allen in its ensemble; it was called Freaks and Geeks, and ...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Francis Ford Coppola’s “Twixt”
> It’s anyone’s guess why Francis Ford Coppola, at the age of 72, with some enduring cinema classics to his name, would decide to make a movie that’s a cross between a David Lynch retread, an old horror cheapi...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Yet More Titles
> See also: THE BIJOU @ TIFF: FIRST TITLES ANNOUNCEDTHE BIJOU @ TIFF: FESTIVAL TITLES, ROUND TWOTHE BIJOU @ TIFF: O CANADIAN TITLES! The Toronto International Film Festival prides itself on being one of the mo...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Immortals”
IMMORTALS: Watch It At Home – Brainless, Violent and Weirdly Spectacular There’s no question that the director Tarsem Singh has an eye. Singh started as a director of commercials and music videos&#...
THE BIJOU: Boxofffice Smurfnotes – 7/29/11
> There’s no way to slice or dice the numbers for COWBOYS AND ALIENS and make them any less sad. The picture cost at least $165M (that’s the amount Universal will admit to), plus another $150M or so for worldw...
Harry Potter and the Box Office Footnotes – 7/17/11
> Despite the enormous 53% drop on Saturday, Warners is projecting only a 21% fall for HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS (PART 2) on Sunday, which would be 2nd lowest in the week’s Top 10, behind only DisneyR...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Sitter”
THE SITTER: Not At Any Price – Adventures In Bad Moviemaking Jonah Hill is awfully lucky to have made Moneyball this year. In that film, fueled by a brilliant Aaron Sorkin/Steven Zaillain script, he gave...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Fright Night”
FRIGHT NIGHT – Watch It At Home: At Least Farrell Had Fun The new remake of Tom Holland’s 1985 FRIGHT NIGHT has a great set of credentials. Craig Gillespie, the director, was behind the well-reg...