‘How To Train Your Dragon’ Takes No. 1 Spot
March 29, 2010
3D’s rising star got another boost at the North American box office this weekend as Paramount’s release of DreamWorks Animation’s “How to Train Your Dragon” flew to the top spot, and Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland” held on to enough screens to emerge a solid number two. Read more
Movie Review: How To Train Your Dragon
March 26, 2010
How to Train Your Dragon, the new 3-D digital fable from DreamWorks Animation, has a kinetically dreamy, soaring-through-the-air effervescence. On some level, though, it’s just the sweetly simple tale of a boy and his dog. The boy, Hiccup (Jay Baruchel), is the son of a toweringly gruff, red-bearded Viking named Stoick (Gerard Butler, in his teeth-gnashing element). The ”dog” that Hiccup befriends is a fearsome dragon — a Night Fury, who in the film’s fire-breather cosmology (there are a dozen breeds, each with its own funky look) bears the distinction of being so fast that it can be glimpsed only as a purplish streak against the night sky. No wonder the Vikings live in mortal fear of them. Read more
Movie Review: Hot Tub Time Machine
March 26, 2010
Two concepts lend themselves to close critical analysis in the matter of the agreeably raunchy, rude, retro Spring Break 2010 comedy Hot Tub Time Machine: (1) the hot tub and (2) the time machine. Perhaps little needs to be said about the hot tub, except that since humankind first walked the earth, the act of submerging one’s naked body in warm, bubbling water in an open-air setting (traditionally while enjoying an alcoholic beverage) has always been linked to dreams of getting it on. Read more
New Movies In Theaters March 26, 2010
March 26, 2010
Hot Tub Time Machine
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Studio: MGM
Director: Steve Pink
Screenwriter: Josh Heald, Sean Anders, John Morris
Movie Website: KickSomePast.com
Actors/Actresses: John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Crispin Glover, Lizzy Caplan, Chevy Chase, Sebastian Stan, Lyndsy Fonseca, Collette Wolfe, Charlie McDermott, Kellee Stewart Read more
Jamie Foxx Is Writing Laverne and Shirley Movie
March 25, 2010
The adaptation of Laverne and Shirley for the silver screen keeps getting more and more interesting. Jennifer Garner and Jessica Biel have both confirmed that they’re headlining the Garry Marshall directed remake of the ’70s comedy. Now, the project has landed an unlikely scriptwriter: Jamie Foxx! Read more
Kevin Smith To Begin Shooting ‘Red State’ in July
March 24, 2010
Not too long ago, Kevin Smith tweeted that his next movie would be “Red State.”
“I talk about lots of stuff I wanna do that either happens years later or never happens at all. Happy to report RED STATE is not the latter.
First draft was dated 9/5/07. Looks like we start shooting this July. Took nearly three years, but we’re finally gonna roll on RED, ” Smith wrote. Read more
Blu-Ray and DVD Releases for March 23, 2010
March 23, 2010
The Blind Side
Release Date: November 20, 2009
Genre: Drama, Sports
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: John Lee Hancock
Screenwriter: John Lee Hancock
Movie Website: TheBlindSidemovie.com
Actors/Actresses: Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Kathy Bates, Quinton Aaron, Lily Collins, Jae Head Read more
Movie Trailer: Letters To Juliet
March 22, 2010
Letters To Juliet
Release Date: May 14, 2010
Genre: Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Director: Gary Winick
Screenwriter: Jose Rivera, Tim Sullivan
Movie Website: LetterstoJuliet-movie.com
Actors/Actresses: Amanda Seyfried, Christopher Egan, Gael Garcia Bernal, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero Read more
Alice In Wonderland Stays On Top For Third Week
March 22, 2010
Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland” pulled off an impressive three-peat win at the weekend boxoffice, with the 3D fantasy ringing up an estimated $34.5 million in its third domestic session. Read more
Movie Review: Repo Men
March 19, 2010
Plenty of interior body parts are forcibly removed from reluctant humans in the violent, futuristic action film “Repo Men.” Kidneys, hearts, livers, all high-tech and artificial, are taken out and, in the movie’s cautionary premise, rented to the medically needy at usury-friendly rates by a nasty corporation called the Union. But there’s a key organ missing from the movie itself: a brain. In its place is a memory bank of other, better movies. Read more
