http://themoviebabe.com your independent source for reviews of the latest movies Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:58:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just a note that this site will be gone by the end of the month due to WebbleYou closing shop. Until I decide where to relocate, you can find my most recent reviews (including The Dark Knight, Mamma Mia!, and The Last Mistress) at the Washington City Paper. I hope ... http://themoviebabe.com/2008/07/21/movie-babe-has-nearly-left-the-building/ Weekend of July 20, 2008 Box Office 1 new Dark Knight 1 $155.3M $155.3M $35.6k 4366 94% 2 new Mamma Mia! 1 $27.6M $27.6M $9.3k 2976 54% 3 2 Hancock 3 $14M $191.5M $3.7k 3776 38% 4 3 Journey to the Center of the Earth 2 $11.9M $43.1M $4.2k 2830 60% 5 1 Hellboy II: The Golden Army 2 $10M $56.4M $3.2k 3125 88% 6 4 WALL-E 4 $9.8M $182.5M $3k 3310 96% 7 new Space Chimps 1 $7.4M $7.4M $2.9k 2511 39% 8 5 Wanted 4 $5.1M $123.3M $2.1k 2433 73% 9 6 Get Smart 5 $4.1M $119.6M $1.9k 2135 53% 10 8 Kung Fu Panda 7 $1.8M $206.5M $1.2k 1505 88% 11 7 Meet Dave 2 $1.6M $9.4M $0.5k 3011 20% 12 11 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 9 $1M $312.6M $1.3k 757 76% ShareThis http://themoviebabe.com/2008/07/20/holy-shit-batman/ Weekend of July 13, 2008 Box Office 1 new Hellboy II: The Golden Army 1 $35.9M $35.9M $11.2k 3204 88% 2 1 Hancock 2 $33M $165M $8.3k 3965 37% 3 new Journey to the Center of the Earth 1 $20.6M $20.6M $7.3k 2811 61% 4 2 WALL-E 3 $18.5M $162.8M $4.8k 3849 97% 5 3 Wanted 3 $11.6M $112M $3.7k 3157 72% 6 4 Get Smart 4 $7.1M $111.5M $2.3k 3086 52% 7 new Meet Dave 1 $5.3M $5.3M $1.8k 3011 22% 8 5 Kung Fu Panda 6 $4.3M $202M $1.6k 2704 88% 9 8 Kit Kittredge: An American Girl 4 $2.4M $11M $1.3k 1849 81% 10 7 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 8 $2.3M $310.5M $1.4k 1664 76% 11 6 Incredible Hulk 5 $2.2M $129.8M $1.1k 1951 68% 12 9 Sex and the City: The Movie 7 $1.7M $148.2M $1.7k 1025 51% Source: ... http://themoviebabe.com/2008/07/14/disappointing-superhero-movie-barely-beats-godawful-superhero-movie/   Video fantasies -- the first symptom of reefer madness The doctor-patient relationship in The Wackness seems typical at first. It’s 1994 in New York, and a high school senior is enduring another fruitless session with his psychiatrist. The doctor says that he sees “no joy” when he looks at Luke. Luke ... http://themoviebabe.com/2008/07/11/the-wackness/ The Globe and Mail needs to run a correction Life’s trials make for melodrama instead of melancholy in The Stone Angel, writer-director Kari Skogland’s adaptation of Margaret Laurence’s novel. It’s with a heavy hand that Skogland tells the already piled-on, time-jumping story of Hagar, a demented elderly woman who recalls ... http://themoviebabe.com/2008/07/11/the-stone-angel/ Lovelier than that loathesome old sun. In Encounters at the End of the World, Werner Herzog discovers in Antarctica that it’s rather likely human beings will soon go the way of the dinosaur. What’s distressing is that the director doesn’t seem to mind. Extinction, after all, would rid this overly technological, painfully nondeliberate ... http://themoviebabe.com/2008/07/10/encounters-at-the-end-of-the-world/ Just found out that the earliest I can see X-Files: I Want to Believe is July 23. Which is, of course, two days before opening. Which is -- SIGH -- too late for a weekly newspaper to review. Again. (You'll note an absence of a Hellboy write-up this week as ... http://themoviebabe.com/2008/07/10/x-files-the-truth-will-be-out-there-but-can-i-learn-it-at-a-reasonable-time/ Coolest. journalist. ever.   When filming a documentary about a writer so eccentric, talented, and gigantically presenced that a peer describes him as having had “the attributes of an action hero,” the risk is less that you'll render his story uninteresting than you'll end up with a feature filled with chaos. Not with ... http://themoviebabe.com/2008/07/02/gonzo-the-life-and-work-of-dr-hunter-s-thompson/ War is bad. Now let me nag you about that filthy uniform. The soldiers populating the anti-war wisp of a film Alexandra need to be reminded that it’s not polite to stare. From the minute the frumpy, slow-moving, but commanding titular character boards a dusty Russian train to a Chechen military ... http://themoviebabe.com/2008/07/02/alexandra/   It's so much cuter when a kid calls you an asshole. John Hancock, the character, is supposed to blow as a superhero. He drinks, he curses, he spends his days sleeping on benches or wreaking more havoc on his home base of Los Angeles than he does sparing it when ... http://themoviebabe.com/2008/07/01/hancock/