Archive for January, 2009
Ultimate Gaga
When’s the last time you heard about a new sport? One that moves fast, provides excitement and exercise and is great for kids and adults alike? Look no further, because Ultimate Gaga has arrived and it’s right here on LI.
As Plain as the Nose on Your Facebook
Lately I’ve been hearing a lot of commotion over the kinds of things people post on social networking sites that get them into trouble at work. Even my editor commented to me recently how surprised he was to see the kinds of things people reveal in their postings, especially when it’s done during the work day on company time.
Renee Zellweger
Suppressing her usually bubbly persona to do a frosty dragon-lady exec during an even frostier winter while filming Jonas Elmer’s New In Town up in Canada, Renee Zellweger met the press to talk about her stint in this financial-crisis romantic comedy.
Inkheart | The Lodger
Hollywood making a movie about the magic to be found in reading books is a little like General Motors singing the praises of riding a bike. So the biggest challenge for Iain Softley’s storybook fantasy Inkheart is to not have the lavish visuals drown out the wonder of words on the page.
Medicine For Melancholy
A kind of gentrification romance in this age of rampant urban removal and foreclosure blues, Medicine for Melancholy is a simultaneously emotional and sociological outsider journey through a stormy stranger sex relationship that might be described as an extended one-day stand playing out in San Francisco.
The Pink Panther 2
With a winking nod to the mythic Peter Sellers original, and reprising his own heavily accented buffoonery from the 2006 version, for The Pink Panther 2, Steve Martin’s Inspector Jacques Clouseau is up against not just a shrewd network of unstoppable global gem thieves, but the far less dainty current reign of gross-out comedy on the big screen.
