The opening Friday grosses for Tom Cruise’s “Rock of Ages” and Adam Sandler’s “That’s My Boy” were atrocious. Embarrassing. Disastrous. Dismal. You pick the catastrophic adjective and it applies. The former has some chance of garnering positive word-of-mouth and rebounding throughout the course of its run, but the latter will undoubtedly go down as one
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“That’s My Boy” begins with a felony being committed, but the movie itself is only a serious misdemeanor. Film critics share a mutually understood sense of dread every time we are forced to see the latest of Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison productions, which are all ceaseless assaults on the good sensibilities of those who enjoy
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My fellow fans of scummy summer reality TV can rejoice, because ABC’s “The Glass House” will begin its premiere season as planned on Monday at 10 p.m. ET/PT, now that a judge has denied rival network CBS’s request for production to be halted on the grounds that the show blatantly rips off their long-running “Big Brother.”
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Hello and welcome to the latest edition of Box Office Beat, the column in which I hopelessly predict the weekend box office results. The new kids on the block this time around are “Rock of Ages,” the incessantly promoted Broadway musical adaptation headlined by Tom Cruise, and “That’s My Boy,” Adam Sandler’s first attempt at
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“The Usual Suspects” scribe Christopher McQuarrie’s “The Way of the Gun” failed to catch on during its 2000 release. More than a decade later, little has changed, as the film has reached the edges of cult admiration yet remains generally unacknowledged, a work with admired elements and scenes that barely registers on the movie landscape
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We here at Critic Speak haven’t liked a single “Resident Evil” movie and we’re naturally unexcited for this one as a result, but when there’s a new trailer for a sure-to-be-popular film out, we’re always willing to pass it along. Get ready for more frantic editing, pointless 3-D effects, and loud-but-not-menacing sound effects. If that’s
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It’s high time that Ari Graynor get the lead role in a comedy, after scene-stealing supporting performances in “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist” and “The Sitter,” among other movies. Thus, even though the redband trailer for the raunch-com “For a Good Time, Call…” isn’t exactly a laugh-riot, we’ll choose to believe they left the funniest
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Last year, Ethan Hawke spilled the beans that he, director Richard Linklater, and actress Julie Delpy were considering making their masterful “Before Sunrise”/”Before Sunset” franchise into a trilogy. Today, nestled midway into an IndieWire interview covering a range of other topics, Hawke unveiled that they were definitely going to make the movie and the plan is
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With “Brave” hitting theaters in less than two weeks, a Pixar storyboard artist named Emma Coats has put up a series of Twitter posts designed to let fans further understand the beloved studio’s creative process. They are the 22 guidelines that Pixar follows for any story that they pursue. Given that Pixar is considered by
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An international trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming “Southern,” “Django Unchained,” has hit the web. This trailer is a bit different, with more explicit violence and better looks at the cast. The film stars Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, and Leonard DiCaprio. “Django Unchained” rides into theaters on Christmas Day.
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