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| Movie showtimes - Green Bay Press-Gazette Posted: 27 Dec 2009 01:50 AM PST Bay Park Cinema"Avatar" 3D (PG-13) at 12:30, 4 and 7:30. "The Blind Side" (PG-13) at 1, 4, 7 and 9:45. "Avatar" (PG-13) at 1:15, 4:45, 5:30, 8:15 and 9. "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" (PG) at 12:40, 1:20, 3, 3:45, 5:15, 6:15, 7:25, 8:30 and 9:30. "Sherlock Holmes" (PG-13) at 12:45, 2, 3:45, 5, 6:45, 8 and 9:45. "It's Complicated" (R) at 12:35, 1:25, 3:15, 4:05, 6, 6:55, 8:40 and 9:40. "Nine" (PG-13) at 1:30, 4:10, 6:50 and 9:25. "New Moon" (PG-13) at 1:45, 4:45 and 7:45. "2012" (PG-13) at 1:35 and 8:30. "Invictus" (PG-13) at 5:15. "A Christmas Carol" (PG) at 12:55 and 3:15. "The Princess and the Frog" (G) at 12:35, 2:50, 5:05, 7:20 and 9:35. "Did You Hear About the Morgans?" (PG-13) at 1:50, 4:25, 7:10 and 9:35. "Up in the Air" (R) at 1:10, 3:55, 6:45 and 9:30. Marcus Cinema Green Bay East"Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" (PG) at 12:20, 1:20, 2:30, 3:30, 4:40, 6, 7, 8:10 and 9:10. "Sherlock Holmes" (PG-13) at 12:40, 1:40, 3:40, 4:40, 6:40, 7:40 and 9:10. "The Princess and the Frog" (G) at 1:30, 3:45, 6:45 and 9:15. "Did You Hear About the Morgans?" (PG-13) at 1:30, 4:10, 7:10 and 9:35. "Invictus" (PG-13) at 12:20 and 9:20. "New Moon" (PG-13) at 3:20 and 6:20. "Avatar" (PG-13) at 12:45, 2:30, 4:15, 6, 7:45 and 9:30. "It's Complicated" (R) at 1:10, 4, 6:55 and 9:40. "Brothers" (R) at 12:25, 3:25, 6:25 and 9:25. "The Blind Side" (PG-13) at 1, 3:50, 6:50 and 9:25. De Pere Cinema Café"Old Dogs" (PG) at 4:30 and 6:45. Budget Cinema 6"Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" (PG) at 12:10, 2:20, 4:30, 6:40 and 8:40. "Law Abiding Citizen" (R) at 1, 3:30, 6:30 and 8:50. "Where the Wild Things Are" (PG) at 12:20, 2:30, 4:40, 7 and 9:10. "Astro Boy" (PG) at 12:30, 4:50 and 7:10. "Zombieland" (R) at 2:40 and 9:20. "Couples Retreat" (PG-13) at 12:40 and 9. "G-Force" (PG) at 3, 5 and 6:50. "Paranormal Activity" (R) at 12:50, 2:50, 5:10, 7:20 and 9:30. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Posted: 27 Dec 2009 12:24 AM PST appear in a scene from New Line Cinemas "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," in this undated promotional photo. The film was nominated for best picture in the Academy Award nominations announced Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2003. The winners will be announced March 23, 2003, at the 75th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Calif. (AP Photo/Pierre Vinet, New Line Cinema) TO GO WITH STORY TITLED FALL FILMS--Actor Daniel Radcliff writes with a quill in a scene from Warner Bros. "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," in this undated promotional photo. Based on the opening book of J.K. Rowling's fantasy phenomenon, the movie will be released just before Thanksgiving. (AP Photo/Warners Bros. Pictures, Peter Mountain) The "Harry Potter" series (left) has made more than $5 billion worldwide to date. (Right) "My Big, Fat Greek Wedding" was an unassuming little movie that became the most popular romantic comedy in history. Courtesy photos --> A trip to the movie theater has always been an escape, a respite from real-life concerns, but the past decade has seen audiences increasingly drawn to stories that have little or nothing to do with life as we know it. Fantasy, comic books and computer-generated animation took control of the multiplex in the first decade of the new millennium, as the studio system became a small group of entertainment conglomerates like Sony and Disney, and all of them — seeking to squeeze shareholder-pleasing profits to the max — becoming increasingly infatuated with developing the perfect franchise. Something like the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, perhaps, with nearly $3 billion in international grosses between three films, and with the finale capturing the best picture Academy Award among its record-tying 11 Oscars. Or maybe the "Harry Potter" series, with the acclaimed wizard tales making more than $5 billion worldwide to date. The popularity of these so-called "event pictures" drove fans to fanatical states of attendance on opening weekends in unprecedented numbers. Gone were the days of films playing for months at a time (as the period between theatrical and DVD release grew shorter), or even of 1997's "Titanic" finishing first at the box-office for 15 consecutive weeks. Where blockbuster status was once bestowed upon films making more than $100 million, the real story became when pictures approached or even exceeded that once magical figure in the first three days. "The Dark Knight" is the current champ in this regard, with $158.4 million collected July 18-20, 2008. This Batman story was the No. 1 movie in the country for just four weekends, playing into the idea of heavily hyped pictures becoming more disposable as crowds awaited the next-big-thing creation that Hollywood had to offer (frequently vampire-related in 2009, following the "Twilight" books and movie craze). Media outlets became primed to release weekend box-office figures that could instantly dub a film a hit or a dud, worthy of seeing for many people based on dollars rather than quality. Accordingly, this corporate franchise-packaging during the 2000-09 period resulted in studios devoting fewer dollars and film slots to dramas and personal stories that traditionally might become high-profile Academy Award nominees. With a shift in moviegoer tastes, the films honored with critical acclaim in recent years have seen declining audiences in a continuing art vs. commerce struggle. On the Tulsa film front for the last decade, the city became home to the state's first IMAX theater at Cinemark Tulsa in March 2000; the nonprofit Circle Cinema, the city's oldest standing theater, reopened in 2004 as an arthouse theater showing the best in independent, documentary and foreign cinema; and native Tulsan Bill Hader became one of the best-known comedic film actors in the world, starring in blockbusters like "Superbad" and "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" in the last four years. As usual in Hollywood, the more things changed, the more they seemed to stay the same. Horror movies looked the same because they were the same: remakes of 1980s slasher flicks abounded. The process of 1950s fad 3-D filmmaking saw improved technology, and studios saw a way to charge extra money for the privilege of wearing funny glasses. Black actors (Halle Berry, Denzel Washington) won Oscars for leading roles for the first time, both in 2001, while an actor became governor of California (Arnold Schwarzenegger this time, stepping into a role previously played by Ronald Reagan). The VHS market gave way to DVD copies of movies for sale and rental, a market now in decline as on-demand movies make inroads and consumers watch movies on their computers and electronic gadgets of varying shapes and sizes. Among the oddities that stood out in the last 10 years were film sensations like "The Passion of the Christ," Mel Gibson's brutal religious blockbuster, and "My Big, Fat Greek Wedding," an unassuming little movie that became the most popular romantic comedy in history. The bottom line for the decade: The average movie ticket price of $5.39 in 2000 rose to $7.18 in 2008, the year for which the latest figures are available.
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| 2009's movie flops - Vancouver Sun Posted: 27 Dec 2009 01:57 AM PST VICTORIA - So, stalking is funny now? Try telling that to Jodie Foster. As far as Hollywood is concerned, this creepy practice is apparently fair game as entertainment. It was played for laughs this year in a Sandra Bullock comedy, and to coax thrills in a glossy Fatal Attraction ripoff - two movies that also belong on to our annual worst movies list. If there's one sure thing in Hollywood, it's that, sadly, such, "What were they thinking?" movies still vastly outnumber award-worthy entries. So why wait for Christmas for turkey when we can reflect on the ones Hollywood has been feeding us all year? We're saving Hollywood's best for last (Dec. 27). Meanwhile, here's this year's turkey trot. All About Steve: In one scene, Sandra Bullock's socially inept, motor-mouthed crossword-puzzle creator, whose extreme romantic obsession with a hunky TV cameraman (Bradley Cooper) induces more cringes than laughter, brags that she can apologize in 17 languages. Just one would have sufficed for making a stunningly unfunny movie. Call it All About Sandra. Land of the Lost: A lost cause. Not even Will Ferrell's genial lunacy could save this surreal, thuddingly dull and laughless comedy, in which a disgraced scientist is sucked into a parallel universe inhabited by dinosaurs, primates and cheesy visual effects. This was such a lumbering mess, it made you pine for the relative wit and sophistication of Stepbrothers. Terminator Salvation: Audio clips of Christian Bale's infamous, F-bomb-loaded meltdown targeting cinematographer Shane Hurlbut on set was more entertaining than a movie that was dull, soulless and story-challenged, despite its mechanical explosions and ear-splitting soundscape as resistance fighter John Connor takes on Skynet and those killer cyborgs. My Life in Ruins: My Big Fat Greek Wedding writer-star Nia Vardalos's movie career will be in ruins if she makes another stinker like this flimsy romantic comedy. Was it just me, or did Vardalos seem to be channelling Sarah Palin as a history professor? Her character takes a job as a tour guide in Athens, instantly endearing herself to a tour bus full of insulting stereotypes, including a slumming Richard Dreyfuss as a Jewish widower. Bruno: Comic provocateur Sacha Baron Cohen's new mockumentary about a gay Austrian fashionista was no Borat, and most of its best gags were in the trailers. Where Cohen's over-the-top antics in Borat benefited from freshness, the gratuitously extreme humour here seemed desperately contrived and pointless, with his mean-spirited character prompting more cringes than hilarity. Obsessed: Fatal Attraction this was not, and not just because this glossy retread lacked boiled bunnies or moral ambiguity. Borderline offensive, this ridiculously contrived thriller about a delusional temp (Ali Larter) who seduces and blackmails a happily married investment banker was rife with cliches, implausible developments and no credible payoff. I Love You, Beth Cooper: It's hard to believe Chris Columbus directed this clumsy, joyless rehash of a Superbad wannabe, in which a nerdy valedictorian professes his love for a sexy cheerleader (a drab Hayden Panettiere), who reveals her true self during an ensuing cliche-strewn adventure. Yeah, that could happen. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past: Just when you thought Matthew McConaughey couldn't possibly star in a movie worse than Failure to Launch, along came this insipid A Christmas Carol clone, in which a playboy fashion photographer re-evaluates his ways and reunites with his jilted ex-girlfriend (Jennifer Garner). The tragedy here was seeing Garner squander her talents in a thankless role, although she made up for it with a knockout performance in The Invention of Lying. Jennifer's Body: Just in case you hadn't noticed, Megan Fox is hot - and this teen horror comedy was not. Although the bodacious sexpot-du-jour has some fun as the bitchy, bloodthirsty high-school hottie, her She-Devil allure wears as thin as Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody's quasi-hip dialogue, derivative storyline and brazen exploitativeness. Post-Grad: Are you kidding me? That question often sprang to mind during this feeble comic misfire starring Alexis Bledel as a perky college grad who returns home to her eccentric family when her dreams of a publishing career don't pan out. Watching the great comedienne Carol Burnett squander her talents as a wacky, wisecracking grandma on death's doorstep, and Michael Keaton playing pop, a delusional luggage salesman, were among this snoozer's particularly painful moments. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Dr. Strangelove Movie Review: T4 - Salon Posted: 27 Dec 2009 12:17 AM PST Dr. Strangelove doesn't know how T4 did at the box office. Dr. Strangelove has his own favorite movie list: Harold and Maude, Donny Darko, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Eat Drink Man Woman, Black Hawk Down, Casablanca (our problems and hills), Hamburger Hill, Eating Raoul, To Live, Amelie, American Pie, Alice's Restaurant, The Meaning of Life (Dr. Strangelove does not want the wafer of mass destruction), and some other stuff like Das Boot and Stalingrad, the Tin Drum and Eisenstein, Almodovar early, but also Heat, Reservoir Dogs, and, his all-time favorite movie; the 1990's version of: The Little Mermaid. Under the sea! Under the water listen to me Kiss the girl! As simple and beautiful as life should be, like the aesthetic of Eat Drink Man Woman. Give me an L Give me an I Give me a V Give me an E just live Harold! Dr. Strangelove could care less about the box office. There is only one box office that matters for Dr. Strangelove here, which is the effect of movies on the national command authorities of the world box office, i.e. the effect of movies on legitimate nuclear command execution, and the games therewith Hollywood likes to play, lately. Cut it out! If and only if, you can tell me off the top of your head what is the CEP of a Mk-12 warhead from Minot, time, and why care on a time urgent hard target basis. Otherwise, look at that list, and rethink life. I will give away some ideas there too. In the meantime, Dr. Strangelove will tell you a war movie that gets it right about why you are real careful about getting outside the chain of command and not following orders: Once Upon a Midnight Clear, a tale of the Huertgen Forest, before we move on to the review of T4. The Huertgen Forest was a battle most Americans don't know too much about. Not fair to the vets who are left. Thank them when you can from that Wonderful Generation, and no more repeats, neither, like that Alabama Fried Professor says. Dr. Strangelove ever sees a vet, he just thanks them for their service. Did it Wedesday for a Marine at Iwo. Iwo, is American and Japanese blood brotherhood, like one of my Alabama top ten list talked about the Corps on Peleliu and Okinawa with the Old Breed. Any old guy tells you he was at the Huertgen Forest, you honor that like the Bulge, Iwo, Okinawa, Normandy, Casserein Pass, Montecasino: period. The Huertgen Forest of the movie Once Upon a Midnight Clear was an American bloodbath in the cold and snow with Jerry in Fall 1944, until Jerry busted that nice move in the Ardennes at the Bulge. They had to pull the brave, brave and real tough Fourth ID out of the line after the Huertgen. Fourth ID was tough, but men have limits. Men are not Terminators, per the movie review we are getting too. The Huertgen was cold, snow, forests with no air support, but just old fashioned close infantry butchery, to free Dachau. Those boys made that possible, even though they had never seen a Jew in rural Alabama, mor'n likely, as the Alabama Fried Professor would say. Dr. Strangelove doesn't like or dislike war; it is what is has been so far. He just wants to minimize pointlesss slaughter, and preserve a reasonable American primus inter pares world order, and try to move everyone to the movie we ought to emulate: Star Trek, for All Generations. In the original, sure, Kirk was an American, but later, there was Picard, and a better show and less leg, and even in the original, there was an Ohuru, a Zulu, who could be a Chang and a Choi too, and a Checkhov at senior photon torpedo firing rank, and I think Spock was really a crypto-Russian: that all sounds great to Dr. Strangelove, the More Human Beings in the Creation the Better, with everyone rotating in command on Earth, as time moves on in an eventual, when we are ready kind of way, which would be a century to build: The Federation. In Once Upon a Midnight Clear, there is a tale of soldiers who have a Christmas truce. Sounds like a good idea. Not with a combat fatigue case around; lots of good folks die, because at that pay grade, you just follow orders, son. It reminded me of the most real moment on MASH, when Henry Blake actually executed command authority, once, over Hawkeye. The boy was gone, but Hawkeye wouldn't stop. Blake came over and said, "He's gone. The waiting room is full, son, now!" Later, Blake told him: "Rule number one of war: young men die. Rule number two, doctors can't change that. You did the right thing listening to me, that others lived." When things do go bad in Once Upon a Midnight Clear, because of a failure to follow orders from good intentions, the result is haunting, just like the Huertgen Forest quietly haunted the U.S. Army for lots of different reasons, private, to flag rank, and ever since. Now, we return to Hollywood, the Terminator 4, and the Tridents. They did it in Crimson Tide first. The bad guy U.S.N. honorable Captain Gene Hackman wants to execute a valid firing solution derived from a valid order from the NCA at the dangerous Russian. The good guy does not. We know the Hollywood answer, but we also know our Heurtgen, and history. Now, Dr. Strangelove doesn't want to ever have to see us do that, neither, but then, there is the reality that at some point in time, millions of American lives might depend on those Tridents executing a counterforce strike on lots of potential adversaries, including the one that no one talks about, the one who likes to pit everyone against one another, because they are paranoid, like Dr. Strangelove, a Dr. Strangelove who learned instead to quit worrying, and love reasonable trade rules, the gold standard (idiots seem to get that monetary theory, which is absolutely mandatory in a democracy), and lotteries in support of the arts, because the middle economic theory again works for dummies, and also keeps bureaucrats and Wall Street types away from the WMD called discretionary fiat money and its associated financial engineering, and the arts, they make life worth living. Dr. Strangelove is aware he is a fictional character, but then, does this essay not prove that art is life? As to T4 and command authority, of course, the movie has great special effects. It looked a little rushed in spots, ..., but still, definitely worth a pay per view ( Dr. Strangelove wishes he caught T4 in the theaters with popcorn, albeit without the gasolione smell after Avatar) because it has such, such rich subtexts. de duh deh? For example, is there a hint thrown out in Jack Nicholson replicating Hackman in Crimson Tide in terms of their politics off the screen, and if Clean Hoosier Gene was not in the movie, does that mean that John Connor was treally the bad guy for delaying the pre-emptive strike on the enemy? Is that the right lesson to draw? Or, is the infiltrator the problem, in the sense of setting up Connor to give the NCA of the resistance a wrong signal, a counterintelligence failure? Like the machines sent someone to tell you things that are bad ideas but well expressed, because it is demonstrable that person has been manipulated, if totally unknowingly, before? Ah, the possibilities for the counterintelligence mind. Dr. Strangelove always respects counterintelligence, because CI is not for dummies. T4 is not just for dummies, neither. It all just makes you think, although, for Dr. Strangelove, like the Alabama Fried Professor, sometimes, don't think too much, just drink the beer, do the climb, watch the movie with all the pretty explosions, and take the girl home, kiss the girl. And pull that trigger son, you are too young to know. God will forgive you, if not the ones who ordered it, or advised the order especially. Or, my favorite T4 subtext, is there a power that would like to take out everyone, operating in a global network? Personally for CI World, Dr. Strangelove, he is honest, if strange. But, Dr.Strangelove also says be wary, fear, the divide e impere game always, before you go pulling any triggers out there at the command level. Dividie e impere, that game is always the last level of the Great Game, the one, where if you see it, you hate forever, especially if the person doing it owes you a lot already. Once that trigger gets pulled though, the little guys just execute, and just remember Once Upon a Midnight Clear about good intentions blowing up in your face. For the rest, Dr. Strangelove says just love the gold standard, and I don't and won't own any gold, never, even if I would set the price at the inflation adjusted level of 1933, when things started to get ugly the last time, and just make things people want American things overseas, especially intelligent arts, and pay for the gold with Alaskan and Shelf oil, properly secured, especially physically, just in case. But for Hollywood, and the USN, leave out the Tridents. What do you in Hollywood really know of the top of your head about the capabilities of a D-5 II with the W-88 in a counterforce role in OPPLAN? Thought so. That order ever comes down the pike, you have to execute, because you could make the same mistake in Midnight Clear, and it ain't your paygrade, neither, like that Alabama Fried Professor likes to say. The life and death of the United States depends on a moment to moment basis on the Trident's capability to bring on the pain, very, very, very, selectively, like with erasing landmarks, slowly if needed, but also on a time urgent hard target kill basis, especially, in reference to the last post, if the unnamed power starts something, divide e impere style, that is, the one maybe silent party in Persia during that whole Greek war deal, the one the Brits now like to point out that was close to Caesar, that likes to play games of divide and impere, and is very, very good at it. Dr. Strangelove says take that one with us for sure, if and only if though, they try something stupid. Otherwise, there is a nice place here for them, where they are within reason, and in the future, a planet for them too, like everybody else on the Strangelove team. But check out T4. Lots of cool explosions, even a nuke. :) So y'all, just chill out, and love the gold standard of a product that I don't own, and make things useful other than weapons, bullshit financial products, and intelligence manipulations. Dr. Strangelove wants everyone to chill out, make babies, and especially, great art across the planet, and colonize space! It is that time. Got any better ideas? What an economic stimulus program that would be! The stars, and, too, like Butch told me, our neglected oceans for the USN, and Dr. Strangelove does love and write about in a generic sense his favorite work of art: The Little Mermaid, forever and ever! finis
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| Movie set in rural Wyo. actually filmed in N.M. - Denver Post Posted: 26 Dec 2009 11:55 PM PST CHEYENNE — "Did You Hear About the Morgans?" purports to give a view of life in small-town Wyoming, but it was actually filmed in New Mexico. The movie, starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant, chronicles the story of a Manhattan couple that moves to the fictitious town of Ray, Wyo. It opened to mixed reviews last week. Wyoming Film Office manager Michell Howard says the town is based on Meeteetse. A few years ago, the Film Office persuaded the movie's writer to visit the Cody-Meeteetse area to conduct research for his script. Howard said it is a victory that Wyoming features prominently in the movie, but it would have been nice if it was filmed there. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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