Presumably boring “Angels & Demons” gets boring poster
TrailerAddict.com released the teaser poster for “Angels and Demons,” the Dan-Brown-penned prequel to the “The DaVinci Code.”
Prepare to yawn, my friend.
A punch in the heart?
We’ve never really explained how we arrived at the name “Punch You in the Heart.” As you’ve hopefully surmised, we have a collective hatred for Rolling Stone movie critic Peter Travers. The master of banal, cutesy one-liners, Travers certainly deserves both our weekly “Stupid Shit Peter Travers Said” feature and a title dedicated to him. But there’s more to this.
I’m making buckwheat pancakes one evening and listening to NPR’s Fresh Air (a combination that won’t endear me to any red-blooded Republican readers) and host Terry Gross was interviewing strangeman Nick Cave. It’s a pretty great interview, and he has a new album out with a song called “Jesus and the Moon.” And there’s something familiar about those lyrics.
Maybe it was you or maybe it was me?
You came on like a punch in the heart
Lying there with the light on your hair
Like a Jesus of the moon
A Jesus of the planets and the stars
More Trailers!!! And these two flicks actually look good.
The good folks at Joblo.com just posted the first trailer for “Sunshine Cleaning,” a morbid little indie dramedy that was pretty well-received at Sundance earlier this year. It stars Amy “sometimes adorable, sometimes grating” Adams and Emily Blunt as sisters who break into the crime scene clean-up service. It also stars Alan Arkin and Steve Zahn. Pretty sharp cast. Pretty interesting premise. Hmmm …
Next up is “Let the Right One In,” a Swedish vampire film that’s got a 100 percent on RottentTomatoes.com, with a couple of critics calling it a masterpiece. The trailer (which I actually found pretty scary) suggests at least some good freaky fun in a genre that’s been pretty, um, bloodless for the past few years.
New “Dragonball” teaser. Sweet jumpin’ Jesus, does this look like a boring movie.
(Insert long sigh)
Just like Christmas Day… thanks, Netflix!
I think I just heard a collective pissing of pants as Netflix announced a new partnership today with Starz Play to instantly stream 2500 additional movies through a PC or Roku box. In addition to adding 10% more content to an otherwise growing 12,000 instant titles, it brings many absolutely fantastic Miramax films to the fold.
Movies include No Country for Old Men, Ratatouille, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Superbad, and more.
The New York Times has a quote from Bill Myers, Starz Entertainment’s president, who doesn’t seem concerned that new online services would conflict with Starz’s traditional cable and satellite distribution. “Over the next several years we clearly don’t expect to see people leaving their big televisions and big screens to watch Starz Play. This is a complimentary service,” he said. Right.
Also worth mentioning is that us Mac users may soon be getting instant watch capability. This blog posting states that they’re working on a Mac solution and will have something by the end of the year.
So good luck getting any work done this week. As Micah said so succinctly, “well, my day’s fucked.”
If you’re a Netflix member (and why wouldn’t you be?), check out the full list here.
See what happens when Mr. Bush moves into ‘Crawford’ on Hulu.com
Hulu.com just keeps getting better and better. The site just announced it’s going to start premiering feature films, and its first will air on Oct. 7.
The intriguing little documentary “Crawford” chronicles what happens to a small Texas town after the President moves next door.
Sounded like a thin backdrop for a documentary, but this one looks intense, witty, funny and heartbreaking. And I don’t have to wait for my foot-dragging indie movie theater to get it.
To see the trailer, click HERE.
Wat up wit dat?
Q. Yo dude, u missed out on “Disaster Movie,” a hardcore laugh-ur-@zz-off movie! Y U not review this movie!? It was funny as #ell! Prolly the funniest movie of the summer! U never review these, wat up wit dat?
S.J. Stanczak, Chicago A. Hey, bro, I wuz buzier than $#i+, @d they never shoed it b4 hand. I peeped in the IMDb and saw it zoomed to #1 as the low$ie$t flic of all time, wit @ lame-@zz UZer Rating of 1.3. U liked it? Wat up wit dat?
You Can’t Fool Me
Here’s where things get mean. And a little sticky. I refuse to see Appaloosa. I refuse to even watch the trailer, because I don’t want to get excited for it.
I love westerns. Love them. I may have even been heard on occasion to say they are my favorite genre of movie. If I could make one movie in my life, and only one movie, it would be a western.
I even love Ed Harris and Viggo. They’re great.
But I made a promise to myself last year, after being fooled for the thousandth time during Leatherheads. I vowed to never again watch a movie with Renee Zellweger. Never. I think she is just downright awful with her stupid pinched face and penchant for being able to overact and underact at the same time. She has ruined movie after movie for me. And I decided, much like CSI theme states, “I won’t be fooled again.” I can’t think of a word to describe her, except for downright awful.
And then it occured to me, Jodie Foster Effect.
So Rotten Tomatoes can give it a 70% and my friends may tell me how great it is, but I will never, ever see Appaloosa. Renee has JFE’d me too many times, and I will not pay money to have it happen again. I won’t even watch it for free. I would rather go my whole life not watching a supposedly “good” movie, than to sit down, watch said movie, and be disappointed/angry when Zellweger ruins it.
That’s just how it has to be.
‘Another Way to Die’ music video
The song for the new Bond movie. Because Jack White and Alicia Keys couldn’t rhyme anything with ‘quantam’ or ’solace.’
Stupid Shit Peter Travers Says No. 8
Each week, Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers says stupid things. Each week we chronicle them.
This week, in his review of the new critically reviled movie “Hounddog.”
“This ain’t the old Dakota Fanning rape movie they showed at Sundance.”
You know, actually that would make a pretty good movie poster blurb.
Did we miss something really stupid that he said? Let us know at punchyouintheheart@gmail.com.