Blogs: Posts Tagged ‘ prometheus ’

It was a pretty busy week, both in the world of film and the actual world. We finally saw a great speech from John Kerry, and a very great one from Bubba. “Mark Owens’” No Easy Day was released. The claim that the book isn’t political is kind of bullshit. The tail end of the...
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Summer is over — at least by the somewhat skewed metric of motion-picture exhibition — and that means it’s time for me to compare my box-office predictions with the way reality actually shook out. Most entertainment writers don’t do this, you’ll notice: Their end-of-season post mortems conveniently ignore the forecasts they themselves had issued...
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I’ve been a few steps behind everything this week between setting up a new computer and the beginning of Euro 2012. Every year I bitch and moan about how horrible international football is, and about what a pain in the crack friendlies and qualifiers are (a high percentage of Arsenal players seem to come...
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Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted — It’s the third go-’round for the animated critters every kid loves slightly less than the Ice Age gang. This time, The Lion Whose Name You Can’t Quite Remember and That Negro Zebra have to pose as members of a circus troupe to make it across Europe. With a script...
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Predicting summer box office is always a dicey proposition: I never get tired of pointing out that Premiere Magazine thought Days of Thunder was going to be the top warm-weather movie of 1990, instead of a cautionary chapter in Don Simpson’s posthumous biography. Some of the entries in my 2012 forecast are going to...
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There ain’t a single new flick opening in Orlando this weekend, which is something God did so you could delve anew into the labyrinthine mysteries of The Darkest Hour. (It’s this generation’s 2001, people!) Or you could just stay at home, catching up on the latest trailers for the movies that are going to...
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