Kick-Ass 2 review: the mask is empty
Like a Comic-Con cosplay event gone horribly wrong, this poor excuse for an action comedy has nothing to say beyond a few expletives and nothing to offer but a shocking lack of appreciation for its own...
View ArticleCarrie review: women who hate women
I’m struck by the perversity of a story four decades old about religious misogyny and basic feminism and the perniciousness of bullying that still feels fresh and relevant... (please click through for...
View Articlequestion of the day: What’s your most anticipated comic book movie of 2010?
Recently, the members of the Online Film Critics Society voted on which comic book movie slated for release in 2010 we’re most looking forward to. We chose from this list, which includes, as far as I...
View Articletrailer break: ‘Kick-Ass’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I understand why the geek community is very very very very very very psyched for this movie. I don’t see how this movie is much different from Mystery Men,...
View Articlequestion of the day: What movie are you most looking forward to in April?
As of this writing, 12 movies will open wide in North America in the month of April. Which means that even if you’re an active moviegoer and see a movie each week, you’ve still gotta pick and choose...
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my week at the movies: ‘Clash of the Titans,’ ‘The Last Song,’ ‘Kick-Ass’
My week at the movies is one-third over already: it’s a truncated week, what with Easter and Passover and kids’ spring break and all that stuff. There weren’t many screenings for me to choose from...
View Articletrailer break: ‘The Greatest’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Carey Mulligan and Susan Sarandon and Pierce Brosnan? Nice. Yes, the boyfriend is Aaron Johnson, aka Kick-Ass. The Greatest opens in the U.S. and Canada on...
View Articlequestion of the day: Is the “controversy” over ‘Kick-Ass’ worth getting...
It started late last year, when the redband trailer for Kick-Ass debuted. Some fanboys appeared to find it hugely erotic to hear 11-year-old Chloe Moretz as Hit Girl say “cock” — which it kinda...
View ArticleJon Stewart loves Barbie; should government support the arts?; learning...
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post....
View Articlewas out all day at screenings…
…and meeting the kids from Kick-Ass. Thought I’d have time in between to check email, post something, etc. No such luck. Hauled the laptop around all day for nothing. Such is the life of the...
View ArticleU.K. box office: ‘Titans’ and ‘Dragon’ lead a fantastical weekend
But 3D isn’t necessary to kick ass: 1. Clash of the Titans: £5.7 million (NEW) 2. How to Train Your Dragon: £4.8 million (NEW) 3. Kick-Ass: £3.9 million (NEW) 4. Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang: £2.6...
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oh, for the love of Tim Berners-Lee…
You know what, dude? You can read our minds. We’re totally predictable. When you mention RedMist.org in your little Kick-Ass movie, you already know what 10 million geeks are going to do the minute...
View Articlequestion of the day: Who is your dream celebrity casting of a celebrity?
Confused? See, it’s like this: This week we learned that Rachel Weisz will play Jackie Kennedy in an upcoming movie by Darren Aronofsky about the first lady’s life just after her husband’s...
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Kick-Ass (review)
Watchmen Babies Who would win in a fight: Superman or Mighty Mouse? Where did the pocketwatch in Somewhere in Time come from? And why don’t ordinary people decide to be superheroes? These are questions...
View ArticleU.K. box office: ‘Titans’ drops big but clings to the top
And it’s deja vu for the rest of the top five: 1. Clash of the Titans: £2.4 million (2nd week; drops 57%) 2. How to Train Your Dragon: £1.4 million (2nd week; drops 71%) 3. Kick-Ass: £1.19 million (2nd...
View ArticleApril 16: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but all that street crime isn’t gonna fight itself, and you’ve got to pick up your cape and mask from the dry cleaners, too. But you can...
View ArticleHit Girl hysteria…
…where are the women at Cannes, the politics of hair, and more. Yes, it’s The Week in Women — or, rather, last week’s Week in Women, finally — my regular column over at the Alliance of Women Film...
View Articletrailer break: ‘The Losers’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I’m pretty sure I had never seen Jeffrey Dean Morgan in anything before Watchmen, but now I want him to be in everything. And Zoe Saldana is clearly on her way...
View ArticleNorth American box office: ‘Kick-Ass’ can’t quite kick ass…
…and How to Train Your Dragon continues breathing fire: 1. Kick-Ass: $19.8 million (NEW) 2. How to Train Your Dragon: $19.6 million (4th week; drops 21%) 3. Date Night: $16.7 million (2nd week; drops...
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The Losers (review)
A Soupçon of Snark You’re not too long into this wickedly wonderful little smashup of fluff — maybe 20 minutes or so — before you think, “Wait: Did this open with a ‘previously on The Losers’ segue?”...
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more adventures in corporate Hollywood totally misunderstanding the Internet
I wrote recently about how the people behind Kick-Ass missed a golden opportunity to engage with fans of the film when they failed to do anything with the domain redmist.org, which features prominently...
View ArticleNorth American box office: ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ back at No. 1
And new releases fail to engage: 1. How to Train Your Dragon: $15.4 million 2. The Back-up Plan: $12.2 million (NEW) 3. Date Night: $10.5 million (3rd week; drops 37%) 4. The Losers: $9.4 million (NEW)...
View Articlequestion of the day: Which ‘Superbad’ guy has the best prospects for a long...
Today’s question comes from reader Avi, who wonders: Which Superbad guy has the best prospects for a long career? Those guys are, of course, are the stars of the 2007 hit Superbad, which cost only $20...
View Articletrailer break: ‘Nowhere Boy’
Tomorrow would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday. It is a crime against humanity that he is not still with us. Yes, that’s Aaron “Kick-Ass” Johnson as Lennon, and Thomas Sangster — the little boy...
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Red (review)
Kick-Ass Of all the washed-up washed-out over-the-hill too-old-for-this-shit action-hero movies we’ve had thrown at us this year — The A-Team, The Losers, The Expendables — Red is by far the most...
View ArticleAlliance of Women Film Journalists 2010 EDA Awards nominees
The AWFJ is one of the critics’ groups I belong to; my input helped determine these nominees, and I will vote in the final balloting to narrow it down to the winners. I still have to watch a few of...
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X-Men: First Class (review)
Rise of the Mutants “Best. Comic Book Movie. Evah!” So my inner fangirl is screaming at the moment as she does a little happy Snoopy dance. “X-Men: First Class is totally awesome!” The cooler, more...
View Articlequestion of the day: If you were going to invent a new Oscar category à la...
The MTV Movie Awards were handed out last night in Los Angeles. In case you care, the winners were: Best movie: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Best male performance: Robert Pattinson, The Twilight Saga:...
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