• Archives

  • Meta

Watercooler: I know why ‘Green Zone’ stiffed and ‘Alice’ didn’t, but why hasn’t ‘The Crazies’ done better?

Welcome back to the LiC Watercooler, your weekly opportunity to talk about anything and everything under the cinematic sun. Share your thoughts on whatever you’ve seen recently, be it in theaters, on DVD or on cable, or feel free to opine an anything you’ve come across in movie news in the last week.
Before I launch [...]

Watercooler: 2010 Oscar Edition

First of all, thanks to all the people who turned up to enliven the LiC live Oscar blogging. You made it a lot more fun than it would’ve been otherwise.
And then there was The Hurt Locker with 6 wins. For the last month people kept coming up with this or that theory why it couldn’t [...]

Watercooler: The calm before the Oscar storm

Another calm weekend as we wait for movies to start cooking after Oscar.

Watercooler on the run

I only made it to half the number of movies I wanted to sample this weekend and I’m on my way to The Ghost Writer right now so my end of the Watercooler will once again be brief.
Shutter Island. Call it a solid double up the middle. Not exactly the movie I wanted it to [...]

The Watercooler: I’ve got nothing

I’ve been away from my computer and away from the theaters the entire weekend so I have absolutely nothing to kick off this week’s Watercooler. Don’t let that stop you from chiming in on what’s been going on in your own cinematic universe.

The Messenger From the Watercooler With Love

I tentatively ventured out to the multiplex this weekend for the first time in a few weeks. I had big plans to catch a number of movies, but the scheduling monkey blew it and I could only swing From Paris With Love. All I wanted was an unassuming and uncomplicated bit of action with a [...]

Ye Olde Watercooler: Talk amongst yourselves. I’ve got nothing.

Your weekly place to chat about your recent movie adventures.

Watercooler: Titanatar!

Ok, so Cameron’s AVATAR is going to catch Cameron’s TITANIC at the box office. Now can it also win 11 Oscars? I’m officially out of the Cameron doubting business so: maybe.

Watercooler: Avatar lights up box office and Globes

After earning another $41.3 million at home (estimated) and $125 million overseas (estimated) this weekend, James Cameron’s Avatar stands within $127 million of Titanic’s overseas box office record of $1.242 billion, $109 million of Titanic’s domestic record of  $600.8 million and $237 million of Titanic’s worldwide record of $1.843 billion. Of course these numbers aren’t [...]

Watercooler: Catching up with ‘Tyson.’ ‘Avatar’ keeps rolling

Catching up with TYSON as DAYBREAKERS and YOUTH IN REVOLT disappoint. Meanwhile, AVATAR keeps rolling.