Well, I didn't get a chance to see The Social Network this weekend, though they hardly need my patronage to take the top spot for the second weekend, dropping only 30% to take in $15.5 mil (per Box Office Mojo). Initially I wanted to see the dark comedy/drama The Joneses with David Duchovny and Demi …
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I wrote these reviews before I decided on the Britastic blog series, but they work just fine because they're both British-related. Slumdog Millionaire is directed by talented British director Danny Boyle, and Freddie Highmore who plays the title role in August Rush was born in London. They both also share a similar fairy-tale element in …
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Easy Virtue I've wanted to see this when I saw the trailer early last year, but wasn't fast enough to make it to the theater. Adapted from Noel Coward's 1924 play, it's a comedy that pokes fun at the stifling British upper class. Jessica Biel stars as a feisty American divorcee Larita who re-marries a …
Happy Monday, readers, and welcome to March! Hope you had a nice weekend, wherever you are. It was a nice, mellow weekend for me, can't complain really when the sun shone for the entire weekend with temp 'soaring' to the mid 30s (yes, that's a 'warm' front for us Minnesotans after a long, cold Winter!). …
My friends and I saw this movie on Halloween night. Since nobody's keen on watching a horror flick, we stumbled upon this one as we're browsing the Redbox site. The biggest draws were the main actors: Christopher Walken, Morgan Freeman and William H. Macy. You'd think that with names like those it'd be a dark …
With the workplace comedy Extract opening today, I somehow feel like bringing up this movie I saw quite a while ago. It's got one of the most fitting and clever tagline: "A place where dreams are canceled." The TV Set, as it's aptly named, is a satire about the journey of a TV pilot as …
TGIF, folks! Just a few more hours before the workweek is over and I tell you three things I'm excited about this weekend: 1. My BFF is returning from Indo tomorrow after being home for over a month! 2. The AVATAR in 3D free-screening I'll be seeing tonight at 7 – with sincere hope it'll …
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