Archive for the 'Best Bets' Category
- Best Bets: WALL-E is Wanted
We haven’t had a real summer family movie for a few weeks since Kung Fu Panda. The Incredible Hulk was marketed to little kids, with a slew of toys released in tandem with the film, but the violence and several disturbing images made it not suitable for little ones like mine. So I’m happy to [...]
- Best Bet: The Hulk Is What’s Happening
Sorry I’m so late, but VBS has had us running around like crazy this week. In short, both of this weeks new offerings have big battles in their past to fight in order to win at the box office. The Incredible Hulk is my pick of the week, I’ll be seeing it tomorrow night and [...]
- Best Bets: Don’t Mess With the Kung Fu Panda
Well, last week Sex and the City did extremely well at the box office raking in nearly 57 million, easily overtaking the geriatric Dr. Jones who had a weak showing of only 46 million. The big winner of the weekend was the summer horror flick, The Strangers, it surprised most by having a 21 million [...]
- Best Bet: Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
You can call this week the Summer doldrums. Unless you are a sex-crazed 40-year-old near menopausal woman or if you think people with bags over their heads are scary. The movie adaptation of the hit HBO series Sex and the City, and the all too cliche, alone in the woods, people are trying to kill [...]
- Best Bet: Indiana Jones
I’ll tell you, few things gets my heart pounding more than a nostalgic theme song score playing during a film. Nothing is more iconic than John Williams’ music when it comes to Indiana Jones, unless you count the humor, the adventure, the whip, and the hat. I can remember watching the trilogy over and over [...]
- Best Bet: Prince Caspian
Well, here it is Friday and I haven’t given you my Best Bet for the week. I know that many of you are languishing without this advice, you are poised on Fandango ready to buy tickets if only I would tell you what to see. Okay, maybe not. It seems that the studios have made [...]
- Best Bet: Sorry Speed Racer
I really want everyone to go see Iron Man. But if you took my advice last week and contributed to Iron Man’s amazing 104-million dollar opening weekend ($200 million worldwide), then thank you. You have solidified Marvel as a valid production studio in their own right, and turned Jon Favreau and Robert Downey Jr. into [...]
- Best Bet: Iron Man
Welcome to the summer, I feel sorry for the movies going up against this marketing giant. I’ve seen Iron Man Slurpee cups and Iron Man cell phones. I have hopes that this will become the new Marvel franchise to replace Spider-Man.
For those of you who live under a rock, Iron Man is the story [...]
- Best Bet: Rest up for the Summer
No Best Bet this week, unless you’re into stoner comedy. I suggest you save your strength and money and take a friend or two to the premiere of Iron Man next week to kick off the official Summer 2008 movie season. Strap in it’s going to be a wild ride!
- Best Bet: Sarah Marshall Gets Expelled
Well after two weeks of lackluster “Best Bets” I feel like there is actually something to look forward to this weekend. Two weeks ago I hoped that Leatherheads would be a touchdown but it looks like the filmmakers threw an incomplete pass and the romantic comedy turned out to be neither very romantic nor comedic. [...]
- Best Bet: Smart People
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Professor Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant – but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he’s as downright flummoxed as the next guy. His teenaged daughter (Ellen Page) is an acid-tongued overachiever who follows all too closely in dad’s misery-loving footsteps, and [...]
- Best Bet: Leatherheads
Looking for a good movie to see this upcoming weekend. Best Bet will help you sort through the drivel to find the golden jewel opening at your local theater this week.
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Oscar® winners George Clooney and Renée Zellweger match wits in Leatherheads, a quick-witted romantic comedy set against the backdrop of America’s nascent pro-football league [...]
- 2008 Summer Movie Calendar
The summer films of 2008 are shaping up to be some of the most exciting in years. While a handful look like they will be fodder for good theological/cultural discussion, most will be visually electrifying escapist fare. While there aren’t as many sequels as 2007, there are quite a few movies that look absolutely incredible. [...]
Movie Reviews
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
2008-05-19 18:16
Jason Segal was funny, I could have lived my life without seeing his junk though. Russell Brand took the show though, he was hilarious, great timing. But overall the movie was a disappointment. I'd been expecting Knocked Up 2 but it just didn't live up to the hype for me.
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2008-05-19 17:12
I'm not a huge fan of the Bond movies. I like the Sean Connery era, But Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan were too clean cut and high brow for me. Daniel Craig plays a more sadistic and heartless Bond. And the Poker game is fantastic, riveting.
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2008-05-19 16:58
McClane is back! I liked Justin Long as the sidekick. Not the best of the series, but at least it's better than #2.
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2008-05-19 16:50
I love Iron Man. It's intelligent, exciting, and funny. Plus fanboys (like me) love it for all the Marvel world references.
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