This week’s Ketchup covers a seven day period that had pThis week’s Ketchup covers a seven day period that had plenty of newsworthy announcements, but what was really missing was much that this writer could call a Fresh Development (except maybe the headline and one other story, and even then… both are borderline). Also included [...]
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Total Recall: The Best of Studio Ghibli
February 16th, 2012 
Buzzy Nicolas Cage and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance might be getting most of the press this week, but for animation lovers, it’s no contest — the biggest release of the week is The Secret World of Arrietty, Studio Ghibli’s spin on the classic children’s book The Borrowers. Stateside fans have been waiting for Arrietty to [...]
RT on DVD & Blu-Ray: The Rum Diary and Take Shelter
February 14th, 2012 Buzzy This week on home video, we’ve got an interesting mish-mash of movies to mention. We’ll kick things off with the new “Johnny Depp as Hunter S. Thompson proxy” movie and the psychological thriller featuring a powerhouse Michael Shannon performance. Then, we’ve got Brazil’s top moneymaker (ever!), the second installment (and “full sequence”) of a horror [...]
Box Office Guru Wrapup: The Vow Leads Booming Box Office
February 12th, 2012 Buzzy Audiences poured into North American multiplexes sending grosses sky high as for the first time in box office history, four new releases simultaneously opened north of $ 20M each over a non-holiday frame. Plus, existing films managed relatively good holds despite the new competition. In fact, overall business even beat out the levels seen recently [...]
Weekly Ketchup: Naomi Watts to play Princess Di
February 10th, 2012 Buzzy This week’s Ketchup covers the week that led up to the beginning of the Berlin International Film Festival, which like Cannes later in the year, is the location of many moviemaking deals. And so this was another week with far more stories than would fit in this column of just 10 (or so) of the [...]
Total Recall: Luis Guzman’s Best Movies
February 9th, 2012 Buzzy Ready or not, it’s time for another 3D Journey. Only this time instead of Brendan Fraser making his way to the center of the earth, we’ve got Dwayne Johnson muscling to the shores of The Mysterious Island in the company of Michael Caine, Vanessa Hudgens, and the inimitable Luis Guzmán — who’s been stealing scenes [...]
RT on DVD & Blu-Ray: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I
February 7th, 2012 Buzzy Last week was especially robust with new releases, so it’s not surprising that only a few new items of note are hitting shelves this week. Among the rereleases are the George Cukor classic A Star Is Born, the 1967 James Bond parody Casino Royale, the 1963 ensemble screwball comedy It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad [...]
Ben Gazzara: 1930-2012
February 5th, 2012 Buzzy The accomplished stage, television, and film actor passed away this afternoon in Manhattan, New York, at the age of 81. Rotten Tomatoes: News
Critics Consensus: The Woman in Black is a Solid Ghost Story
February 3rd, 2012 Buzzy With awards season in full swing, audiences have plenty to choose from at the multiplex, whether it be the Oscar contenders they’ve missed or a solid trio of new releases. We’ve got a haunted town (The Woman in Black, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Ciarán Hinds), a teenage superheroes (Chronicle, starring Dane DeHaan and Alex Russell), [...]
Five Favorite Films with Daniel Radcliffe
February 1st, 2012 Buzzy “It’s actually a thrill to be talking about something else,” Daniel Radcliffe chuckles, pausing to consider a question about his new movie The Woman in Black. He is, of course, referring to the ubiquitous presence of a certain blockbuster franchise that has consumed almost half of his life on the planet. Radcliffe was just an [...]
