Speaking About the Unspeakable
On Dec. 28, MTV aired a special spin-off of its popular 16 and Pregnant program. Titled No Easy Decision, it focuses on a 19-year-old girl—pregnant for the second time—as she decides to have, and goes through with, an abortion. The girl, Markai Durham, had been featured on 16 and Pregnant in the past, opting then […]
Miley. Sigh.
I don’t want to write this post. How many times must we talk about Miley Cyrus’ latest indiscretion? When does this tripe stop qualifying as “news” and slips to a gossip site afterthought? I’m tired of this story. I don’t want to talk about the latest batch of photos taken of Cyrus—one of which shows […]
Movie Monday: Little Fockers
Personally, I don’t see Little Fockers as an ideal way to celebrate Christmas, but loads of people apparently disagreed. The Ben Stiller/Robert De Niro-fronted comedy took the weekend’s box office title, collecting an estimated $34 million en route. True Grit, the Coen Brothers’ new take on John Wayne’s classic Western, rode in at No. 2 […]
Texting Santa
Back when I was a kid, I’d write a letter to Santa nearly every year. I didn’t bother with sending it like most kids did. I’d just leave the note by his milk and cookies, figuring he probably had some spare loot under the sleigh seats. And I still remember the year Santa answered back, […]
Movie Monday: TRON’s Legacy
There are lots of folks who’d say there really is no such thing as an original story, and that all of our books and movies essentially rework tales we’ve been telling around the campfire since obsidian was considered cutting-edge technology. But still, it’s interesting that the week’s top three films all drew inspiration from work […]
Movie Monday: Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The cinematic waters proved to be a little choppy for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader this weekend. While King Caspian’s noble flagship did land in first place at the box office, it did so with an underwhelming $24.5 million—$40 million off the pace set by The Lion, the Witch and […]
Leave It to The Beaver
Forget Mad Max. Sayonara, William Wallace. Mel Gibson’s new role? A troubled executive who talks through a puppet. The Beaver (the name of the movie and the species of the puppet) isn’t due out ’til next year, so I don’t know too much about it. But I do know my first two reactions were when […]
Movie Monday: Tangled
It was a slow weekend at the local cineplex, with most folks apparently staying home to trim the tree rather than catch a film. Tangled turned the tables on last week’s champ, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, and pushed its total take to nearly $100 million. But the movie lost 56% of […]
Voyages Are Best Made Together
I’m reading The Voyage of the Dawn Treader out loud to my daughter. Granted, she’s nearly 17 and could read the book on her own. But she’s nice enough to humor me. She knows that C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia stories are among my all-time faves, and that I’ll miss her when she goes off […]
Harry and the Hair
Harry Potter’s latest adventure has topped the box office for at least one more week. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 narrowly bested Disney’s new computer-animated charmer, Tangled, at theaters this weekend, earning $50.3 million to Tangled’s $49.1 million. But it’s not as if Disney’s fretting over the film’s split ends. Tangled, over […]
