A boy, his dog, and Burton at his best.
Lists about the best Christmas movies are everywhere this time of year, and, most likely you’ll get a variation of It’s a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story, and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. These are great movies, and I try to watch each of them, including a few others, every year around Christmas, reminding myself to ring bells, […]
Burton and Depp are coming closer to eradicating the tent-pole film machine known as Disney, but they’re not there yet.
In for some Liam Neeson kicking Turkish ass? Check out Taken 2 — guaranteed to be more like Taken than the first Taken. In the mood for something morbid but funny? Frankenweenie opens this weekend — hopefully to defy the Burton / Disney dynamic that has disappointed as of late. Interested in Zac Efron and pee? You will need to deal with […]
I’ll assume other movies are opening this weekend, but none of them will be watched. We should probably also mourn the fates of any film opening in the next three weeks as well, which means The Watch and Killer Joe are probably destined to small-screen releases for quite a while. The Dark Knight Rises opens this weekend, […]
Last weekend was ruled by The Avengers, and it’s probably a good bet that most production companies assumed this would be the case. I’m sure that Dark Shadows will draw a decent crowd, but it would be safe to bet on Marvel’s superhero cavalcade to continue conquering the box office. Dark Shadows: The love affair between Johnny […]
If 2011 was the year of the sequel, 2012 is set to rival that moniker with additional superhero franchise installments. Most notably is the uber-anticipated Dark Knight Rises, followed at a distance by The Amazing Spiderman and The Avengers. I’m sure Hollywood is also destined to bombard us with a handful of underground super movies that follow […]
Every good date night should end with a “date morning.” If the person you’re dating works nights at a bar (like the Liberian Girl does) then the morning could also double as a time to have a legitimate date. With meals, movies, snowball fights in DuPont Circle and those sorts of things. On a Saturday morning after […]