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Delayed Huff Post Weekend Box Office in Review (08/23/09)

Scott Mendelson | Posted 09.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Shorts, Scott Mendelson, Julie and Julia, Movies, GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Robert Rodriguez, Box Office, District 9, Brad Pitt, Post Grad, Harvey Weinstein, Alexis Bledel, Meryl Streep, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, News, Entertainment News
Scott Mendelson

As everyone and their sister already knows, Inglourious Basterds scored a genuinely impressive $38 million over its debut weekend.

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Kudos to Smart Career Choices: Megan Fox to Host the Season Premiere of SNL

Scott Mendelson | Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Television, Megan Fox, Zac Efron, Jon Hamm, Transformers, Christopher Walken, The Rock, Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey, News, Movies, Entertainment News
Scott Mendelson

Here are some quick tips to increase the likelihood that Megan Fox hosting Saturday Night Live will be successful.

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ReThinking Standard Operating Procedure: Yes, Virginia, We Really Do Torture

Jonathan Kim | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Cenk Uygur, Movie Review, Standard Operating Procedure, George W. Bush, Rethink Reviews, Documentaries, John Yoo, Film, Jonathan Kim, Movies, Abu Ghraib, The Young Turks, Movie Reviews, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, Lynndie England, Charles Graner, Film Critic, Errol Morris, Documentary, Iraq, Torture, Sabrina Harman, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

In light of a new report set to be released today from the CIA, I want to take another look at Standard Operating Procedure, Errol Morris' documentary about torture at Abu Ghraib.

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Julie & Julia: Who's Cooking Now?

Laura Baudo Sillerman | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Laura Baudo Sillerman, Films, Nora Ephron, Meryl Streep, Marriage, Cooking, Sex at Midlife, Movie, The Art of French Cooking, Julie Powell, Julie and Julia, Movies, Living News
Laura Baudo Sillerman

This is a note about what happens when a director in her sixties writes and directs a movie, about a young woman questing after the life once led by an older woman.

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Ponyo: Finally, A Great Family Movie

Maria Rodale | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Japanese, Kids, Movies, Cinema, Animation, Ponyo Movie Review, Family, Living News
Maria Rodale

If you haven't seen it in the theatres yet, Ponyo, a new Japanese animated film by Hayao Miyasaki, is one of the rare gems of a movie that the whole family will enjoy, and that is worth seeing on the big screen.

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District 9

Will Menaker | Posted 09.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Slate.com, District 9, Reviews, Sci-Fi, Sharlto Copley, Daniel Engber, Eileen Jones, Movies, South Africa, Entertainment News
Will Menaker

Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience may have been the smartest movie I've seen this year, but Neill Blomkamp's District 9 is definitely the most fun.

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When the Coming Attractions are the Main Attraction

Scott Mendelson | Posted 09.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Et, Previews, I Am Legend, Star Wars Episode One the Phantom Menace, Batman Returns, The Lost World, Two Towers, Scott Mendelson, Teasers, Godzilla, Men in Black, Hook, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Coming Attractions, Movies, Trailers, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Fellowship of the Ring, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Lion King, Forrest Gump, Return of the King, Terminator 2, Avatar, Rugrats the Movie, Tim Burton, Batman, Jurassic Park, The Dark Knight, Thirteen Days, Enemy of the State, Batman Begins, The Siege, News, Entertainment News
Scott Mendelson

With the Internet, it is no longer necessary to go to a theater to see the must-see coming attraction, and I genuinely miss the days when I would watch Entertainment Tonight hoping for a sneak peak at a major preview.

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Will Ken Burns' New National Parks Documentary be Boring?

Levi Novey | Posted 09.19.2009 | Green

Read More: National Park Service, Documentary, Obama National Parks, National Parks, Movies, Ken Burns, Green News
Levi Novey

Friends had asked me, a former national park ranger, if I think "the national park story" will be interesting enough to capture and maintain an audience's attention (read: theirs). I emphatically told them yes.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Won't Forgive, Can't Forget: Oliver Hirschbiegel on Five Minutes of Heaven

Dan Persons | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Violence, Film, Liam Neeson, United Kingdom, Exclusive, Terrorism, Politics, Drama, Movies, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Television, Northern Ireland, Guilt, Interview, James Nesbitt, Great Britain, Truth and Reconciliation, Uvf, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Could it just be coincidence? Could it just be that, by some random alignment of the planets, we have two films about the conflict in Northern Ireland opening on the same weekend?

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John Hughes: "The Audacity of Empathy"

Kevin Smokler | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Youth, 1980s, 80s, Generation X, Film, Movies, John Hughes, Cinema, Death, Parents, Entertainment News
Kevin Smokler

Hughes's are not just movies about the mid-1980s, but movies set in the mid-1980s that now live as archetype and fable.

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The Second Trailer for The Twilight Saga: New Moon (With Helpful Narration)

Scott Mendelson | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Teaser, Trailer, Reviews, Scott Mendelson, New Moon, Twilight, Preview, News, Movies, Entertainment News
Scott Mendelson

I love the fact that someone in the studio chain thought that Taylor Lautner had to literally explain the character arcs in the trailer for the the second Twilight picture, New Moon.

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DVDs: I Heart "Firefly"

Michael Giltz | Posted 09.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: TV Shows, Dollhouse, Firefly, Joss Whedon, Movies, Dvds, Route 66, Paul Rudd, Bluray, The X-Files, Chris Isaak, Pushing Daisies, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Maverick, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, Kristen-Chenoweth, Wentworth-Miller, Ang Lee, Dr. Who, Andy Samberg, January Jones, Torchwood, I Love You Man, Alec Baldwin, Jason Segel, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

Firefly is quirky, with the offbeat and clever dialogue we expect from Whedon. But it's also wholly satisfying and fun from episode one

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ReThink Review: District 9 -- Earthlings Aren't Easy

Jonathan Kim | Posted 09.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Reviews, South Africa, Rethink Reviews, Neill Blomkamp, District 9, Jonathan Kim, Film Critic, Immigration, Apartheid, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Movie Critic, Refugees, Movies, Johannesburg, Peter Jackson, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

My ReThink Review of Neill Blomkamp's excellent film, District 9, and why its creativity and social/political commentary make it a modern classic.

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Hollywood Unveils New Rules for Movie Lovers

eSarcasm | Posted 09.17.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Keanu Reeves, Copyright Infringement, Copyright, Realdvd, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Real Networks, Copyright Law, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Hollywood, Movies, Dvd, Kaleidesscape, Satire, Comedy News
eSarcasm

Movie watchers will be allowed to make and eat their own popcorn, but it must be at least three days old and smothered in rancid butter-flavored coconut oil.

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'District 9' Wins Weekend Box Office At $37M

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 09.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: District 9, Film, Movies, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — The first-time director and cast of unknowns of the acclaimed sci-fi thriller "District 9" have given Hollywood a late-summer box-...

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Have You Hugged Your Cadaver Today? Glenn McQuaid on I Sell the Dead

Dan Persons | Posted 09.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Film, Zombies, Horror, Sex, Exclusive, Vampires, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Ireland, Dominic Monaghan, New York City, Movies, Comedy, Ron Perlman, Gore, Interview, Great Britain, Larry Fessenden, Staten Island, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

I Sell the Dead has pretty much nothing going for it except a neat cast, plus the visual inventiveness and sheer, audacious wit of its director, Mr. McQuaid. Fortunately, that's more than enough.

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The Hurt Locker

Will Menaker | Posted 09.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Hurt Locker, Ieds, Katherine Bigelow, Iraq War, David Morse, Jeremy Renner, Ralph Fiennes, Reviews, War Movies, Movies, Entertainment News
Will Menaker

This film approaches the kind of unaffected, unmediated portrayal of war and the men who live within its strange, parallel reality.

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Staying In the Loop

Michael Rugnetta | Posted 09.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Politics, Political Satire, Satire, British, Comedy, Movies, War, In the Loop, Anna Chlumsky, The Thick of It, I Heart Huckabees, James Gandolfini, Zach Woods, Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, Mimi Kennedy, Entertainment News
Michael Rugnetta

In the Loop spews forth countless barrages of vulgar, sarcastic, cold, and eminently witty dialogue that only the British can raise to the level of high art.

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Huff Post Review - GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)

Scott Mendelson | Posted 09.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Reviews, GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Review, Paramount, Entertainment, Marlon Wayans, Channing Tatum, Ray Parks, Stephen Summers, Scott Mendelson, Rachel Nichols, Movies, Sienna Miller, Dennis Quaid, Entertainment News
Scott Mendelson

The film resembles what adventures you might create if you took your action figure playsets and gave them a $175 million budget to work with. And yes, I mean that as a compliment.

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What We Learned from John Hughes

Beth Armogida | Posted 09.07.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Directors, Screenwriters, Sixteen Candles, 1980's, The Breakfast Club, Home Alone, Movies, John Hughes, Comedy News
Beth Armogida

Can you imagine growing up without John Hughes' movies? His stories showed us how to laugh at our insecurities and, even more importantly, to laugh at other people's insecurities.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: A Brisk Trade in Paul Giamatti: Sophie Barthes on Cold Souls

Dan Persons | Posted 09.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Russia, Stanislavski, Soul, Being John Malkovich, Charlie Kaufman, Black Market, Paul Giamatti, Film, Interview, Movies, New York, Exclusive, St. Petersburg, David Strathairn, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Russian Mafia, Acting, Morality, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Barthes was willing to give us some insight into her definition of soul and what it's like dealing with actors raised in the land of Stanislavski.

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The End of Comedy (The Ass-End, Really)

Gwen Davis | Posted 09.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Judd Apatow, Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Movies, Comedy, Funny People, Entertainment News
Gwen Davis

Funny People is not quite Dickensian, the best of comedies and the worst of comedies, but there are elements of almost genuine humor and indisputably the pits.

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Top Ten Unconventional Indicators Of The Recession

HuffPost's Eyes & Ears | Matthew Palevsky/Stephanie Harnett | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Recovery, Eyes & Ears, Slideshow, Economic Indicators, Underwear, Economy, Recession, Movies, Eyes and Ears, Main Street, Slidepoll, Recession Indicators, The Recession, Business News

Despite Wall Street doling out multi-million dollar raises to executives, most of the country continues to suffer from rising unemployment and a falli...

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Joe Swanberg on The Interview Show

Mark Bazer | Posted 09.03.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Independent Film, Mumblecore, Movies, Joe Swanberg, Noah Baumbach, Video, The Hideout, Joe Swanberg Interview, Hannah Takes the Stairs, Entertainment News
Mark Bazer

Discussing ice cream and movies with filmmaker Joe Swanberg (Alexander the Last, Hannah Takes the Stairs) at The Hideout.

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Julia Lite, Coming to a Stove Near You

Michele Kayal | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Summer Movies, Recipes, Meryl Streep, Cookbooks, Cooking, Juliette Powell, Associated Press, Julia Child, Amy Adams, Cooking Tips, Movies, Living News
Michele Kayal

The publishing industry has anticipated the latent need-to-feed that's likely to surface in even the laziest among us as we watch the upcoming Julie and Julia.

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