Looking Forward To: DATE NIGHT
Nov 12
Yeah, I admit it. As a married man and father of two kidletts, movies like Date Night are aimed to appeal to the ‘I could care less’ movie goer in me, and this one seems to be right on the money. Sometimes you don’t need art in your movies– you just want appealing and guaranteed entertainment no matter how obvious and rehashed it might be.
Let’s do the list:
- Steve Carell? Check!
- Tina Fey? DOUBLE-Check! (funny and sexy. Yes, sexy).
- Mark Whalberg? Meh. But ‘check’, I guess.
- A host of cameos, including (but not limited to)
- Mark Wahlberg (meh)
- Ray Liotta (yeh!)
- Mila Kunis (yow!!)
- Trailer me smile? Check!
- Trailer made me laugh out loud? Check!
Sometimes I prefer to just switch off and kick back to a straight forward film, and comedies like this one can be perfect for that. I look forward to seeing Date Night with my wife one evening. Once the kids are in bed. And the dishes are done. And the tidying is finished. See the parallels?
… Plus I trust anything Tina Fey is involved with.
The Fosters are a typical suburban couple whose lives – including their weekly date nights of dinner and a movie – have become routine. To reignite the marital spark, they visit a trendy Manhattan bistro where a case of mistaken identity turns their evening into the ultimate date night-gone-awry. But as Claire and Phil take their unexpected walk on the wild side, they begin to remember what made them so special together.
UP IN THE AIR new trailer to keep you high
Nov 11
Who would have thought that dude from ER would be the Frank Sinatra of our generation? (Without the singing). George Clooney is box office gold at the moment.
One of his new films, Up In The Air, directed by Jason Reitman (Juno, Thank You For Smoking) has been making a big splash online after it played at the Toronto International Film Festival this year. There’s even thought it could make a play at the awards season in early ’10 which seems more than likely now.
Up In The Air is released Christmas Day 2009 in the USA
7 January 2010 in Australia and 15 January 2010 in the UK.
To keep you perky and interested until then, a new trailer has emerged:
They make it so easy to NOT take it seriously
Nov 11
People are fucking stupid– if this hilarious list of nominations for the upcoming 2010 People’s Choice Awards are anything to go by. Something about them just screams tacky and pointless.
What frustrates most is the inconsistency (if I may indulge in TV for a moment); Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin are nominated for their 30 Rock performances… yet 30 Rock misses out on a TV Comedy nomination. I guess SNL rules after all?
I bet 2 AND A HALF MEN win best fucking TV comedy.
At the very least, it will be interesting to check in on January 6 and see who ‘wins’.
Looking Forward To: ANTICHRIST
Sep 15This kickass trailer for Antichrist promises style and tension. Getting rave reviews right now, I’m thoroughly looking forward to it.
The Twilight Saga NEW MOON trailer grits my shit
Sep 15“Just promise me you won’t do anything reckless…”
Are you fucking kidding me with this shit? That is one of the worst lines of dialogue, both written AND performed, I have seen/heard in a loooong time.
Still — one must give credit where credit is due, and be damned if they don’t cater to their target audience perfectly. This is going to make a bucket load of money and spawn even more horrible teen-rom-horror-fantasy movies and there is nothing we can do about it.
Looking Forward To: WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
Mar 23
It’s rare that I look forward to a trailer being released. It’s even more rare that I get excited over procduction photos either taken from set or lifted from an early cut of a film. So I’m pretty humbled to admit that I am eagerly looking forward to Spike Jonze’s WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE trailer based on these images alone – not to mention the film in its entirity, of course! Fond memories of the book as a child, I never would have dreamed of it being transferred to film. Not adequetly, anyway – not without it looking like a Jim Henson cheap version witrh bumbling puppets and ridiculous songs. But thinking back to those pages, and seeing these images… well, one can see where the anticipation has come from. All we need now is a trailer to confirm the excitement.
OPINIONS COUNT