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Daily Archives: March 8, 2013
Movie Preview: Joss Whedon’s “Much Ado About Nothing”
Modern dress, weekend party, black and white, jazz, and TV actors and some folks from “Cabin Fever,” I think. He spent no money, shot it at his house. A witty play gets the Whedon treatment. “Much Ado About Nothing” opens … Continue reading
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Box Office: Will “Oz” be wonderful, is “Dead Man” down and out?
“Oz, the Great and Powerful,” is opening in 3D, on almost 4,000 screens. And it has audience buzz, buzz quite separate from generally indifferent reviews (it’s better than the Rotten Tomatoes average suggests). That could add up to $80-85 million, … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Dead Man Down”
With all that attention focused on the original Swedish “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” very little of it seemed to have spilled over onto the director. Was its success simply due to story and settings and Swedishness? Maybe. “Dead Man … Continue reading
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