Movie Monday: Gravity Pulls Down Another Win
It’s probably the most obvious, most elementary part of Newton’s law of universal gravitation: What comes up must come down. Unless, of course, you’re talking about Gravity itself. Gravity, the much-lauded space thriller starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, spent its second weekend in high orbit, vacuuming up an estimated $44.3 million to retain its […]
He Will Be Greatly Missed’
The Albuquerque Journal, the newspaper of record for New Mexico’s largest city, published an obituary Oct. 3—as they do probably every day. But this one was a bit different: The eulogized individual had, technically, never lived. White, Walter, aka “Heisenberg,” 52, of Albuquerque, died Sunday after a long battle with lung cancer, and a gunshot […]
Movie Monday: Gravity
Chalk it up to the odd physics of open space. How else can we explain how Gravity fell all the way up to first place? Well, maybe the movie itself might’ve had a little something to do with Gravity’s high-flying orbit to No. 1 this weekend. The space thriller hurtled to an estimated $55.6 million—a […]
We All Break Bad
Miley Cyrus isn’t a fan of Breaking Bad, AMC’s much-discussed Emmy winner that wrapped up this past weekend. For one, she thinks Walter White, the show’s cancer-riddled protagonist, coughs too much. But—irony alert—she also thinks the show teaches Americans the wrong sorts of lessons. “America is just so weird in what they think is right […]
Movie Monday: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2
If there’s anything we’ve learned from the movie industry, it’s that you can’t ever have too many animated films predicated on dangerous foodstuffs. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 followed its predecessor’s example and rolled all the way to the top of the box office. The parmesan cheese on top of this lucrative mound […]
The Emmys: A Pretty Depressing Evening
Sunday’s Emmy Awards—a time when the TV industry pats itself on the back for its best artistic achievements—are well in our rearview mirror now, and we’ve had time to come to grips with the winners (Breaking Bad for best drama, Modern Family for best comedy and scads of others), losers (critics howled that The Newsroom’s […]
Movie Monday: Prisoners
You might say that Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal took no prisoners over the weekend. The pair abducted an estimated $21.4 million from moviegoers, pushing their gritty crime thriller Prisoners to the top of the box office heap. No matter that the movie pushed two-and-a-half hours, or that its themes weren’t exactly the stuff of […]
New Television Season: Back to the Future
With the debut of Fox’s Sleepy Hollow last night, the new 2013-14 season officially got underway. Unlike some mainstream media outlets, we don’t get advance screeners of the shows we watch, so I can’t really talk about any of them with any sort of authority. But I am struck by a couple of trends. It […]
Movie Monday: Insidious Chapter 2
It was a horrific weekend at the local multiplex. And as we’ve learned repeatedly this year, there’s money in fear. Insidious Chapter 2 made a frighteningly lucrative play for the box office crown, scaring an estimated $41.1 million from moviegoers to exorcise all competitors and become the second-highest grossing September release of all time (just […]
Eating My Words
My iPad doesn’t want me to read. It’s the only reasonable explanation for why this otherwise near-perfect piece of technology would eat my online library. It’s a shame, really, because that’s a big reason I bought the thing. I like to read, but I tend to read three or four books at a time—and that […]
