What’s the best way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day? Other than with green beer? That’s right: Irish movies. It doesn’t have to be about the holiday to get you in the mood. And in honor of my parents, who are in Ireland today, I present to you the best Irish-themed movies for your watching pleasure. [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2010’
Mar 14
“Alice” crushes new releases in weekend box office
For the second weekend in a row, Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” has taken the box office top spot, earning $62 million, more than four times second-place finisher “Green Zone” ($14.5 M). Other newbies this weekend, “She’s Out of My League” ($9.6 M) and “Remember Me” ($8.3 M), finished third and fourth respectively, and “Our [...]
Mar 11
18-year-old Lautner still creepily hot in “Eclipse” trailer
Today was the big day folks– the trailer for “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,” the third of five Twilight franchise movies, hit the web. Feast your eyes, because all of your faves are back: Kristin Stewart, Robert Pattinson, barely-legal Taylor Lautner, Dakota Fanning, and introducing Bryce Dallas Howard as Victoria. The movie will be in theaters [...]
Mar 10
The movies your friends are (and aren’t) watching
59 movies were nominated for Academy Awards this year. If you exclude the shorts (animated, live action and documentary) and the foreign language nominees– but include the full-length documentaries– that brings us down to 40 films. At my Oscars party last weekend, my friends had seen 21 of those 40 films, and I found that pretty [...]
Mar 09
Oscar highlights and lowlights (one day late)
The Oscars are officially yesterday’s news. But now that we’re counting down 363 days until the next awards, what will you most remember– for good and for bad? Here, we rattle off our 10 favorite moments of the night, and our five not so favorite. Did we hit the mark with what you were thinking, [...]
