The past couple of weeks have been pretty good for the box office. The film "Defiance" opened in limited release and the following week the film "Notorious" had a surprisingly strong box office showing by making $21.5 million dollars over the weekend to debut at #4. Considering that Notorious was only in about half of the theaters of the #1 film in the country (Paul Blart, Mall Cop) it outearned it per theater by a wide margin. Biggie Smalls is still the illest!
I won't bore you all with too much film talk because I'll do a full Sundance Film Festival recap later and tomorrow I'll post up the new installment of "A Tale Of Ten Trailers" tomorrow because today is Inauguration Day. A day that I didn't think would come anytime time soon, frankly. My niece and nephew are in school right this minute watching the 44th President Of The United States Of America get inducted into office and speak to the people of this nation. I type this very sentence as he speaks and realize just how great a moment in history this is. I'll tell my grandchildren about this...and include the fact that I was typing away on a PowerBook G4 while watching CNN with one window open to Twitter. It's a new day and a new era. Let's all face it together.Films I recommend in theaters (1.16.09-1.31.09) or to add to your queue early or for rental from either Netflix or Redbox:
Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans
Killshot
Taken
The Class
RocknRolla
Henry Poole Is Here
Pride And Glory
Lakeview Terrace
The Express
The Children Of Huang Shi
George Wallace (Two Disc Special Edition)
The Deal
King Of The Hill
On Each Side
The Lucky Ones
Higher Ground
Life Gamble
Downfall
Holly
The Machinist [Blu-Ray]
Antwone Fisher [Blu-Ray]
King Kong [Blu-Ray]
Election [Blu-Ray]
The Bourne Trilogy [Blu-Ray]
Groundhog Day [Blu-Ray]
Zodiac [Blu-Ray]
Any Given Sunday [Blu-Ray]
In Bruges [Blu-Ray]
Death Trance [Blu-Ray]
MI-5 Vol. 6 (series)
The Best Of Electric Company-Vol. 2
Chris Rock: Kill The Messenger (comedy)
Russell Peters: Red, White And Brown (comedy)
Sam Kinison: Unleashed (comedy documentary)
Black Is...Black Ain't (documentary)
Stanley Tookie Williams (documentary)
Operation Valkyrie (documentary)
Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired (documentary)
Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention: In The 60's (music documentary)
The Kids Are Alright-The Who (music documentary)
Rolling Stones-Rock Of Ages (music documentary)
The Animals And Beyond-Eric Burdon (music documentary)
Beat, Beat, Beat-The Yardbirds (music documentary)
Love Train: The Sound Of Philadelphia-Live In Concert (music documentary)
Hulk Vs. (animated)
The All-New Superfriends Hour: Season One, Vol. 2 (animated)
Bleach Vol. 14: The Rescue (anime)
Darker Than Black, Vol. 2 (anime)
Blood+: Volume Four (anime)
Defiance
The Wackness
Appaloosa
The Wrestler
The Brothers Bloom
Seven Pounds
Valkyrie
Revolutionary Road
Waltz With Bashir
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Burn After Reading
Traitor
Eagle Eye
Hamlet 2
Towel Head
Baby
Sangre De Mi Sangre
Savage Grace
The Guardpost
Cadillac Records
Nobel Son
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Gran Torino
Frost/Nixon
Twilight
Special
Hancock (Unrated Edition)
Gonzo: The Life & Work Of Hunter S. Thompson
Slumdog Millionaire
Quantum Of Solace
Planet B-Boy
Sukiyaki Western Django
DJ Dusk's Root Down Soundclash
DJ Spooky's Rebirth Of A Nation
Decon presents Fresh Rhymes And Videotape
W.
What Just Happened
Changeling
Synecdoche, New York
Let The Right One In
Fear(s) Of The Dark
Zack And Miri Make A Porno
The Incredible Hulk
Sold Out: A Threevening With Kevin Smith
Hell Ride
Elite Squad
Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist
Religulous
Quarantine
Body Of Lies
Ballast
Boy A
Mongol
Blindness
Choke
Snow Angels
Mad Detective (Johnnie To
The Last Minute
Adulthood
Invisible Target
Street Thief
The Last Winter
Triangle
Dart's Movie Recommendations (I personally cosign all of these joints):
Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans
Killshot
Taken
The Class
RocknRolla
Henry Poole Is Here
Pride And Glory
Lakeview Terrace
The Express
The Machinist [Blu-Ray]
Antwone Fisher [Blu-Ray]
Election [Blu-Ray]
The Bourne Trilogy [Blu-Ray]
Groundhog Day [Blu-Ray]
Any Given Sunday [Blu-Ray]
In Bruges [Blu-Ray]
The Best Of Electric Company-Vol. 2
Chris Rock: Kill The Messenger (comedy)
Russell Peters: Red, White And Brown (comedy)
Sam Kinison: Unleashed (comedy documentary)
Black Is...Black Ain't (documentary)
Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention: In The 60's (music documentary)
The Kids Are Alright-The Who (music documentary)
Rolling Stones-Rock Of Ages (music documentary)
The Animals And Beyond-Eric Burdon (music documentary)
Beat, Beat, Beat-The Yardbirds (music documentary)
Rent/Watch these movies at your own risk:
Repo! The Genetic Opera: ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!
Max Payne: The first 45 minutes were so godawful I couldn't even finish it.
Saw V: Fuk U
City Of Ember: Alternate title: City Of Slumber...the book was better.
Center Stage-Turn It Up: Turn it off.
Domino [Blu-Ray]: Domino Harvey deserved better than this Tony Scott clusterfuck of a "film". Now it's in Blu-Ray! *Rolls eyes*
Vacancy 2-The First Cut: Straight to video sequels? Agnes Bruckner...what happened to her career?
Fireproof: Fuck off Kirk Cameron!
Vicky Cristina Barcelona: No no no.
College: Another generic college/stoner movie. Kick rocks.
The Uninvited: This movie is just like the film poster...nothing but ass.
Coming (relatively) Soon To A Theater (or computer) Near You:
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