December 2009

My Top 10 Favorite Films of 2009

Published on: 31st December, 2009

Here’s my top 10 favorite films of 2009.  Take a look and post your top 10 below.
10.  Away We Go – Sam Mendes’ tender-hearted comedy follows a comfortable couple deciding where they should start a family together.  John Krasinski (”The Office”) and a sweet Maya Rudolph (”Saturday Night Live”) are surprisingly, exceptionally good, delivering punchlines [...]

New Image from Disney’s Rapunzel

Published on: 31st December, 2009

With their 50th Walt Disney Animated Classic (not including Pixar movies), the Mouse House is returning to what they do best: fairy tale musicals.  Based on the story by the Brothers Grimm, Rapunzel tells the story of a fair maiden (Mandy Moore) banished to a high tower with a single window.  The witch (Donna Murphy) [...]

Must Watch: 7 Minute Tribute to 2009 Movies

Published on: 31st December, 2009

Last year I posted a tribute to 2008 titled “The Cinescape” by Matt Shapiro that blew me away.  Unfortunately it doesn’t look like Shapiro is editing together a compilation this year, or he hasn’t posted one to his YouTube channel as of this afternoon.  There are several montages this year, but the best so far [...]

Sex and the City 2 Trailer

Published on: 29th December, 2009

Just before Christmas, Warner Bros released a trailer for Sex and the City 2, the follow-up to the original hit starring Sarah Jessica Parker and friends. The first one, last year, made $401 million worldwide. It seems the women didn’t have any problems signing for a movie this time…
The studio is sticking to [...]

Hawkman Movie May Finally Fly at Warner Bros

Published on: 28th December, 2009

Warner Bros may finally be developing a stand-alone feature film for their DC Comic book hero Hawkman, according to an inside source for Pajiba.
The studio describes the project as equal parts Indiana Jones, The Da Vinci Code, and The Ghost, which meshes about as well as naming three arbitrary movies in connection with a superhero [...]

Is Taylor Lautner Going on a Vision Quest?

Published on: 28th December, 2009

When Taylor Lautner ripped off his shirt countless times in The Twilight Saga: New Moon, women of all ages swooned for the new found muscled figure he had cultivated between movies.  Nothing was more creepy, however, than Lautner’s recount on “The Jay Leno Show” about the time a 40-ish woman, accompanied by an embarrassed daughter, [...]

Awesome English ‘Inception’ Trailer

Published on: 28th December, 2009

In case you didn’t see Sherlock Holmes this weekend or catch the French version of this video, Warner Bros has released an English, high-resolution trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Inception.  The studio has kept details surprisingly secret for the science fiction story, so please pardon the lack of explanation for the eyegasm of random images and [...]

Facing Ali DVD Review

Published on: 28th December, 2009

James Toback’s candid interview with “Iron” Mike Tyson may have missed the short list of 15 films vying for the Academy’s “Best Documentary,” but another boxing movie is a contender as the field narrows in a little over a month.
Out on DVD Tuesday (Dec. 29), Facing Ali recalls the career of Cassius Clay, better known [...]

Avatar Tops Record-Breaking Holiday Weekend

Published on: 27th December, 2009

In its second week in theaters, James Cameron’s Avatar topped the largest weekend box office in history that totaled an estimated $264 million in sales.  The figure may be even higher once the final numbers shake out on Monday.
Cameron’s 3D epic contributed $75 million, the second biggest second weekend in history just behind The Dark [...]

IMDB, RottenTomatoes: Movies of the Decade

Published on: 27th December, 2009

At the end of the year, and especially the decade, you’re inundated with enough top lists that they themselves should be ranked.  Plenty of other websites and other media outlets have been counting down basically the same best movies, which is partially the reason I spared you the numbered trips down memory lane.  (But before [...]

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