Yes, Sarah Palin has heard the big Hollywood news that some “gal” named Julianne Moore will play her in HBO’ s upcoming movie Game Change , but that doesn’t mean she’s happy about it. Maybe she’s just not a big Boogie Nights fan?
It wasn’t just Red Riding Hood that got dragged over the coals by the critical mass this week — fellow Friday release Battle: Los Angeles is apparently pretty bad, too. As Movieline’s own Michelle Orange wrote , Battle: Los Angeles is such a slave to the shaky cam aesthetic that it may as well have been shot by her iPhone-using mother. Ouch. Though considering the all-time pan Roger Ebert wrote for Battle , perhaps Apple-based cinematography and wooden characters are only the beginning. Ahead, the nine most blistering sentences in Ebert’s half-star review.
After three summers in a row of Pixar movies that moved more than half of the audience to tears, the new trailer for Cars 2 seems to more or less guarantee that we’ll be able to leave the tissues at home this time. The plot setup seems even more convoluted in this trailer (something to do with international espionage and…racing), but that doesn’t mean you can’t kick back, relax and enjoy the pretty colors, wink-nudge one-liners and wacky antics of Larry the Cable Guy.
Anytime Saturday Night Live brings on a “young, hip” entertainer, they have a history of dumbing down their material for the mass audience — which is exactly what happened last night with host Miley Cyrus. It’s obvious that there’s a concerted effort to appeal to the 16-year-old out there who has never watched SNL before, but was watching last night because Cyrus was hosting — a Cyrus, I should add, who came off a bit smug at times (her monologue is a good example) and seemed to never really win over the studio audience.
It’s a pain to waste your time watching a bad movie, but how much more frustrating is it to watch an okay movie and realize how much better it might have been with just a couple tweaks here and there? The Adjustment Bureau was, as the President might say, likeable enough — an intriguing concept, congenial stars, and a cool look to the whole thing — but as Roger Ebert says , it’s “a smart and good movie that could have been a great one if it had a little more daring.” So what are the five easy ways that The Adjustment Bureau could go from DVD recommendation to a must-see-movie?
Let me be clear: Though I’m a Glee hater, I enjoy and endorse some of the show’s interesting song choices. During the Madonna episode, I liked the pep assembly version of “4 Minutes” and the all-male rendition of “What It Feels Like for a Girl” because they were unexpected tunes with unexpected singers. But most of the time Glee resorts to overly familiar hits, cheapens them, and shoehorns them into maddening storylines. That can be a tolerable practice, but let’s set aside 50 examples of untouchable pop majesty for Glee immunity. Add your own, please .
As promised , here’s that new trailer for Puss in Boots . Here’s all you need to know about the first teaser trailer the Shrek spin-off: It starts with an Inception -like montage of words and dissonant horns that ends in a “nine lives” joke. Har! Higher level here, folks! Let’s take a look at this warlock.
In this weekend’s well-received animated Western Rango , Johnny Depp seems to add a touch of Hunter S. Thompson to his titular chameleon-out-of-water. But he’s not the only one lending a personal flavor to his animated alter egos; some of Depp’s co-stars look even more like their characters — so much so that you might wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat from the lizard-people nightmares.
The Great Oscar Host Debacle of 2011 remains an open wound today at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, from which Academy president Tom Sherak ruminated about the efficacy (or lack thereof) of James Franco, Anne Hathaway, and/or any comics who might have assumed their places. But the real fun starts, however, with the told-you-so moment supplied by an anonymous, “high-ranking Academy member.”
Honestly? Kill those dudes . American Idol ‘s tenth season about the ladies — these toilet-scrubbing, bathtub-hawking, makeup-sponging femmes who look you in the eye, trill a melody, and demand, like, 8-80% of your soul. For keeps. Last night the Top 12 women crooned with unexpected grace, and today we’ve got them all listed, exalted, or exposed as frauds (in some special cases). Compare your rankings to ours, and prepare to be wrong.