Posts from ‘November, 2009’

We know we don’t live in Chicago anymore, but we liked this too much to pass it up: Movieoke is sweeping the Windy City. Movieoke is like karaoke, but rather reenacting your favorite classic movie scenes. Costumes are provided, and you can choose from over 200 scenes to act out while they’re projected on a [...]

According to the L.A. Times blog The Big Picture today, conservatives are taking aim at sports drama “The Blind Side” because of a shot taken at George W. Bush during the film. But the movie has a positive message and bloggers are way off, they say: Big Hollywood’s John Nolte, for example, used the joke [...]

Not since Jude Law’s epic release of six movies in the fall of 2004 (“I Heart Huckabees,” “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow,” “Alfie,” “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events,” “Closer” and “The Aviator,” and yes, we saw ALL of them in the theater) have we seen a Hollywood actor so ambitious at [...]

Fangirls came out in full force this weekend, proving the biggest box office successes don’t always have to be based on comic books. “New Moon” has taken in $140.7 million since Friday, officially giving it the third highest grossing opening weekend of all time, just behind “The Dark Knight” ($158 M) and “Spider-Man 3″ ($151 [...]

Remember last year, when we went to see the midnight premiere of “Twilight,” and we told you it was really good? Yeah, that was a lie. We were in the midst of reading the books, and we were drinking the Twilight juice back then. Consider this an official apology. “Twilight” is a subpar film version [...]