June 12
Call of the Wild 3D
Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love
June 16
June 19
Dead Snow
Whatever Works
June 24
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
June 26
Cheri
Fireflies in the Garden
July 1
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
July 3
The Girl from Monaco
I Hate Valentine's Day
July 10
July 15
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
July 17
July 24
All Good Things
The Answer Man
In the Loop
July 29
July 31
The Cove
August 7
When in Rome
August 14
A Perfect Getaway
District 9
The Goods: The Don Ready Story
Ponyo
Pool Boys
Spread
The Time Traveler's Wife
August 21
Five Minutes of Heaven
Goose on the Loose!
It Might Get Loud
World's Greatest Dad
August 28
The Boat that Rocked
September 4
Amreeka
Carriers
Citizen Game
Shanghai
September 9
September 11
The Red Canvas
Tyler Perrys: I Can Do It All Myself
September 17
The Burning Plain
September 18
Brand New Day
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Jennifer's Body
Splice
September 25
October 2
A Serious Man
Toy Story/Toy Story 2
E-Film Critic's Eric Childress is wondering why Paramount is using Iron Man quotes from the relentlessly elastic and seducable Peter Travers along with old-time accomodators like Jeffrey Lyons and Gene Shalit plus Moviemantz's Scott Mantz. "Couldn't find anyone better than that, Paramount? Seriously? You may not wanted to associate your superhero flick with the online geek sites, but at least some of them write more than just dumb-dumb phrases like Lyons and Shalit."
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on May 3, 2008 at 8:36 AM
comment #1
LYT
says ...
I don't know about Mantz, but Shalit is a familiar face to a lot of people, and Rolling Stone is a familiar name.
How often do you see Larry King quoted on a poster for a movie that actual critics like? The general public doesn't pay enough attention to know who the soft touches are.
Posted by LYT
at May 3, 2008 12:49 PM
comment #2
LYT
says ...
...and I just read the whole piece and see that Erik wants me to have my critical credentials revoked on the basis of one review, because it isn't helping his argument.
So my challenge to Erik is to prove me wrong. Name me a movie that came out this year prior to Zombie Strippers that delivers on what it promises to the same degree.
I've seen movies subsequent to it that are better, but stand my story -- at the time I saw it, Zombie Strippers was, to me, the best. Which is at least partially due to there not being many great movies so far.
Posted by LYT
at May 3, 2008 4:15 PM
comment #3
Erik Childress
says ...
Well, Snow Angels certainly had a lot of snow in it but certainly not a whole lot of angels - so in that respect I guess your Zombie Strippers argument holds water.
But I'd say in those terms which you base your best film of the year solely upon - Cloverfield, Diary of the Dead, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Son of Rambow ALL delivered precisely what they promised. In Bruges even exceeded expectations and each one of them would qualify IMHO as good films. Something I can't say about Zombie Strippers despite truth in titular advertising.
Posted by Erik Childress
at May 3, 2008 5:27 PM
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