Posted by kittson on 06 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Movies, Review, Friday Night In
Winter just doesn’t want to surrender to spring, and everyone’s getting antsy for some warm weather. Why not spend this Friday night in with The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, and get nostalgic for the summer vacations of your youth.
Based on the bestselling teen novel by Ann Brasheres, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants […]
Posted by kittson on 31 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Movies, Review, Friday Night In
If Blades of Glory is sold out at all your local theaters this weekend, why not get your Will Ferrell fix by spending Friday Saturday night in with Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, the hilarious story of the rise and fall and inevitable comeback of the world’s greatest (fictional) Nascar driver Ricky Bobby […]
Posted by kittson on 16 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Movies, Review, Friday Night In
If I were to list the events depicted in Walk the Line – music tours, infidelity, drug abuse, prison (hey, I did list them) – it may sound a lot like an episode of VH1’s Behind the Music. However, this film about the life of the late Johnny Cash (based on his own autobiographies) is […]
Posted by kittson on 09 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Movies, Review, Friday Night In, YouTubery
If you skipped Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, you probably contributed to the split between Dreamworks and Aardman Animation. Now you feel guilty enough to watch it, don’t you? Well, don’t watch it out of guilt. Watch it, because it’s an incredibly smart, creative, and funny film.
Using stop motion clay […]
Posted by kittson on 02 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Movies, Review, Friday Night In
Imagine removing Jack Nicholson’s character Jake from Chinatown and replacing him with the Dude from The Big Lebowski. Then throw in some Quentin Tarantino violence and banter, and the product might look a lot like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
Robert Downey Jr. (who seemingly can do no wrong onscreen) stars as Harry Lockhart, a burglar […]
Posted by kittson on 22 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Movies, Review, Friday Night In
Have you ever referred to yourself as a metrosexual? Do you spend as much time perfecting your hair as your girlfriend does? Then Hitch just may be the movie for you. It’s a Bridget Jones’s Diary or My Best Friend’s Wedding for men, in which the guys are insecure and the women are gorgeous and […]
Posted by kittson on 16 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Movies, Review, Friday Night In
One can’t help wondering why Garrison Keillor, whose weekly radio show A Prairie Home Companion is still going strong after 30 years, would write and star in a movie about this same show’s final night on the air.
Directed by the late Robert Altman, in his signature style, where characters talk naturally over each other, and […]
Posted by kittson on 08 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Movies, Review, Friday Night In
Before funny Will Truman and Grace Adler, and before adorable Jen Lindley and Jack McPhee, there were bittersweet Nina Borowski and George Hanson of The Object of My Affection.
Written by the late playwright Wendy Wasserstein (The Heidi Chronicles) from a novel by Stephen McCauley, and directed by Nicholas Hytner (The Madness of King George, The […]
Posted by kittson on 01 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Movies, Review, Friday Night In
It’s supposed to snow this Friday night, and HBO is airing Jarhead, so snuggle up in front of your television and catch a small glimpse of what it may be like for all those boys over there in the desert. Adapted from Anthony Swofford’s 2003 memoir about life as a Marine during the Persian […]
Posted by kittson on 25 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Movies, Review, Friday Night In
This week spend Friday night in watching Little Miss Sunshine, a movie about winning that has just received four Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture. The first feature film by husband and wife directing team Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, it is the story of the dysfunctional Hoover family who take a road […]