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Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart in Adventureland. Immediate thought upon leaving the theater after Adventureland: I want to hug that movie and everyone involved with it. I’d also like to buy them all a beer. Though that would probably be a lot of beer. Continue reading
Sad news for Bijou fans: Boo, the enormous, ever-present theater cat, died this weekend. “She would have been 23 on the 17th,” says Joe Lewis, whose exact job I am unsure of but who, as far as I can tell, is the Bijou’s general does-everything-what-needs-doing kind of guy (the R-G last referred to him as the “administrative assistant,” but that sounds less fun). Continue reading
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Ho, hum. I realize it’s a little bit weak to comment when you’ve not yet seen all the films, so I’ll be brief: Even the surprises this year (Melissa Leo, Richard Jenkins) don’t feel like surprises. Slumdog Millionaire ceased being an underdog even before it got here, and while it a perfectly fine film, it is not a Best Picture. Not, not, not. I think I’m attached to exactly one category: Man on Wire had really best win Best Documentary. Continue reading
One of the quirks of living in Eugene — or any other secondary or tertiary film market — is that one cinematic year is usually not over until about a third of the way through the following year. Continue reading
I haven’t been able to get this song out of my head for THREE DAYS. It’s from Hamlet 2, which opens tomorrow and promises to be hilarious, at least for certain folks. (No one else in the theater for Tropic Thunder on Monday laughed during this preview, but then, a considerable portion of that audience though the very funniest thing in Tropic was Jack Black’s elaborate description of the sex act he’d perform for the person who untied him from a tree, so … take that for whatever you think it’s worth.) Continue reading
Oh, Disney. Via The Chicago Tribune: Chicago Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert and columnist Richard Roeper are cutting ties with the TV franchise that Disney-ABC Domestic Television has syndicated nationally for 22 years. Continue reading
So The Dark Knight Returns (damn, that’s a hard habit to break) made $18 million from midnight showings last night — er, this morning. That’s a lot of dollars. That’s more than some movies I could name made in their entire opening weekends. … and that’s all I’ve got. Until tomorrow, at least. Trying to hide from all the reviews out there gets more difficult by the minute. Continue reading
So Hellboy II: The Golden Army was entertaining, but not quite the rapturous comic-book movie experience I was hoping for. It just … missed a few turns on the narrative turnpike. But you know what was rapturously cool about it? The creatures. Which really should come as no surprise to anyone who saw Pan’s Labyrinth. Continue reading