Twitter Review: Grace
Primally repulsive and sad, ‘Grace’ is an honest, thorough metaphor for early motherhood, and clever and light with its icky cryptic horrors
Tagged: Grace, Horror, Paul Solet, Reviews, Twitter, Twitter Reviews
Month: November 2009
Box Office Power Rankings: October 30-November 8, 2009
As people tell us time and time again, box-office performance is in the eye of the beholder. Box Office Mojo wrote that Michael Jackson’s This Is It, in its debut weekend, did “exceptionally well for a concert picture or music documentary.” On the other hand, Disney’s A Christmas Carol “stumbled a bit out of the gate.” Guess which one made $30 million and which one pulled in $23 million in its opening weekend. Yep. The stumbler made more.
Economical Storytelling in Movies: A Case Study
Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell exists mostly to remind the world that Sam Raimi made The Evil Dead and can still make The Evil Dead, which is good to know because Sam Raimi is re-making The Evil Dead. But amid all the giggle-inducing grossness are a few grace notes – unnecessarily skillful business that reminds us that Raimi also made A Simple Plan. I’m going to talk about one of those bits.
Tagged: Drag Me to Hell, Sam Raimi, Ways of Watching
