THE BIJOU REVIEW: “The Three Musketeers”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE BIJOU: “Immortals” Stay Up Late
> The new 3D action-fest IMMORTALS got off to a reasonably good start with $1.4M in Thursday midnight screenings. This isn’t anything spectacular, but it’s slightly higher than the $1.3M RISE OF THE PLANET OF ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Bellflower”
BELLFLOWER – Worth A Ticket: A Uniquely Mashed-Up Vision Watching BELLFLOWER, you keep thinking that it’s going to resolve itself into some categorizable genre. Mumblecore roma...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Straw Dogs”
STRAW DOGS: Watch It At Home – Pointless In Every Way Forget about the artistic comparisons, the insult to film history, and the lack of respect to a great filmmaker no longer with us. There’...
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...
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 REVIEW: “Monte Carlo”
MONTE CARLO: Watch It At Home – The Usual Tourist Stops Beware the credit “Screen Story by.” It means that whatever the original source material for a movie may have been, it’s essentia...
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’S FRIDAY STUDIO SCORECARD – 12/2/11
> The post-Thanksgiving weekend is usually brutal, and this year is no exception. BREAKING DAWN PART 1: The likely 60% drop from last weekend is as expected for this very front-loaded series. Right now the film is r...
BIJOU BOXOFFICE: EARLY FRIDAY REPORT
> According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, the weekend is looking auspicious for Mark Wahlberg’s CONTRABAND. The modestly budgeted thriller (which, however, Universal has been expensively marketing for a solid ...
THE BIJOU BOX OFFICE: Mid-Week Update
> With Monday and Tuesday numbers in, here are some notes about how the new arrivals are holding up: THE HELP continues its impressive run: its $8.3M on Monday-Tuesday represents a very robust 32% of its weekend total.&nb...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Paranormal Activity 3”
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3: Worth A Ticket – More Minimalist Bumps In the Dark The PARANORMAL ACTIVITY franchise is a movie studio’s dream come true. The concept itself demands a no-star cast, a very li...
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...