Watchmen debuted to a number of midnight showing around the country, and is showing that many people are indeed interested in seeing the film. The Watchmen movie already made $4.6 million in its first showing, marking it as a quick success, and showing that the Watchmen trailers really did the trick to get people excited….
Any popular movie has the chance of being made fun of, in the form of a parody. Well, this time, it was the Twilight saga being made fun of. The parody, Vampires Suck, opened in theaters on August 18, 2010. Unfortunately, many of the funniest moments are given away in the trailors. While there are…
Down in the Valley is the kind of movie I'd like to like, but I don't. It seems like a good premise: we've got Edward Norton playing a character with a slightly skewed perspective on reality. That kind of mindset spawned Fight Club and American History X, arguably some of Norton's best work. It doesn't…
What an awesome romantic comedy! Abbey ((Katherine Heigl), a radio producer is accustomed to working on her straight laced radio program, and she is a leader in her field. Despite her great work, the station's ratings were not high enough, so they gave her Mike (played by Gerard Butler), the star of a show called…
Today I got a hold of Disney's "Tuck Everlasting" movie, the 2002 adaptation of the Natalie Babbitt novel. Oddly enough, before tonight I had only seen the much older adaptation of the novel. I wanted to preview the movie before we watch it as a class next week, and I have to say I thoroughly…
After screening Joseph Gordon-Levitt's "Don John" this week I was glad that my wife had been at work, because she would have found it disgusting. I'm no prude, but quite frankly, this movie is a little over the top. Gordon-Levitt, who wrote, directed, and starred in the movie, plays a highly structured individual. He is…
Chicago, Illinois is major city in the U.S. As such, it has enjoyed a very long partnership with Hollywood. There are movies about Chicago, filmed in Chicago, and movies that have in one way or another involved Chicagoans. It seems that the first movies filmed in Chicago may have been as early as 1915 with,…
After being on her feet at work over a 6-day stretch, my wife and I decided to take most of Sunday off and, as part of that, found ourselves watching a mid-afternoon movie while the kids were occupied with something else. We had originally had planned on watching an independent thriller. But, 15 minutes into…
One of the all time greatest outdor movies made was On Golden Pond, directed by Mark Rydell and produced by Bruce Gilbert. Although On Golden Pond debuted in movie theatres twenty-eight years ago, it still holds its own even in 2010. On Golden Pond was originally a 1979 screen play written by Ernest Thompson. The…
The 1984 B-Movie classic, C.H.U.D., shocked audiences with a new type of urban horror. For once, it is not some campground in the backwoods that is a scene of wanton horror. It is the streets of New York City at night that is the unlikely backdrop for murder and violence. Things walk the streets (and…
