Movies

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Hey, Hollywood Actresses, Your ‘Likableness’ is a Factor Too

You’re watching a movie, or a trailer, or a movie promo (New Year’s Eve, sheesh.) and someone appears on screen and you do it. It’s not loud or anything, but still you do it – you groan. It isn’t always because the actor is so pathetically horrible, and maybe once upon a time they had a real “it” factor, but now, yes now, they have an uncanny way of being the most annoying thing dancing across your screen at this particular moment. Is it the character? Perhaps. Or maybe it’s who they are. Oh, don’t say that. You don’t know these people. They’re actors. Just who do you think you are, some sort of judge? You’re not. But, well, you kind of are.

Let’s take a look at a few stars who’d we’d like to like.

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Review: Albert Nobbs

This story is about a woman that dresses as and passes for a male most of her life. Albert, played by Glenn Close, lives in 19th century Ireland and works as a waiter/butler that caters to the wealthy in all of their opulence and stiffness but still has wants and needs of his own. It is the sudden appearance of Hubert (Janet McTeer) that opens Albert’s world up to a new realm of possibilities while simultaneously showcasing his own naiveté.

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The New Hunger Games Trailer Debuts

Premiering this morning on Good Morning America, the newest Hunger Games trailer gives us a peek at some of the most exciting and critical points of the film based on Suzanne Collins’ young adult novel The Hunger Games. Fans of the series will recognize some familiar faces – Katniss’s co-tribute Peeta Mallark [Josh Hutcherson], Katniss’s BFF4L Gale [Liam Hemsworth], younger sister Primrose Everdeen [Willow Shields], former District 12 champion Haymitch [Woody Harrelson], Katniss’s hairdresser Cinna [Lenny Kravitz!] and the colorful Effie Trinket [Elizabeth Banks]. We get a solid preview of The Reaping ceremony, and the heart wrenching moment when Katniss volunteers for Prim as tribute for District 12. Continue reading

Adam Sandler’s Cross-Dressing Bomb is Almost the Worst Movie of 2011

This is absolutely shocking. No. This is just what you expected when the trailer for Jack & Jill first murdered your eyeballs. You anticipated that Adam Sandler’s new movie in which he plays a dual role — the other noxious character — Sandler with lady-boobs and a wig stolen from Benny Hill’s closet circa 1978 — would suck butt.

But someone actually has to track these things, so let’s find out just how bad it actually is.

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Everyone. Everyone! Twilight is Nearly Here!

Well, do you have tickets for the November 18th opening night of the next installment of the Twilight Saga, Twilight: Breaking Dawn or as I refer to it lovingly, reverently, and comically — Twilight: Pulsing Uteri? No? You better hurry up! Tickets are selling like mad. Mad I tell you! Mad like a shruggy virgin about to have the sparkle sex for the first time with a bed-crushing, star-dusted vampire nebulous, and then give birth to the world’s first twinkle fetus!

It. Will. Be. Glorious.

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Why Meryl Streep Won’t Win An Oscar Next Year

Yes, she’s been nominated sixteen times and won twice but that means she is fourteen times a loser. However, there are a few things that might be the cause of her twenty-eight year drought. Maybe other nominated performances are better than hers? Maybe politics gets in the way? Or MAYBE her performances just aren’t that good? Continue reading