Okay, so we all know I was gone last week because I am always gone during the craziest episode of every Survivor season — from the revelation of the Outcasts on Pearl Islands (I actually watched that episode with Mark Burnett while on location for Survivor: All-Stars) to the triple immunity that got rid of Phillip on Caramoan (watched on my laptop not long after having my personal space violated by a Benedict Arnold impersonator while vacationing with the family in Colonial Williamsburg) to last week’s tiebreaking bonanza (not watched until a few days later due to my work trip to Toronto, because they won’t let you watch CBS shows online north of the border). Read More...
It makes sense, in an abstract story-structure way, to crossbreed The Shining, with its dad channeling the ghosts of killers past, and Shutter Island, with its detective who learns nothing is what it seems — including him. But this suburban gothic is a logy, convoluted mess. First Daniel Craig plays a novelist with a wife (Rachel Weisz) and two daughters, then he’s the dad’s dark double, then the alter ego turns nice, and it just gets more sketchy and ”Huh? Read More...
-Give Drew Barrymore credit: She has an impeccable sense of which projects are right for her. She’s producing the film version of dating-advice besteller He’s Just Not That Into You. Alas, she’s not attached to star, but we can cross our fingers. -Julian McMahon is wanted, dead or alive. The Nip/Tuck doc is costarring with Sandra Bullock in the thriller Premonition. It’s about a woman who loses her husband in a car crash, only to find him alive the next day. Read More...
