Adventureland (movie)

Movie Projector: 'Snow White' to be fairest of them all at box office

2012-05-31 13:04:00

There probably will be a happily-ever-after ending for "Snow White and the Huntsman"at the box office this weekend. The adaptation of the classic fairy-tale --�the second take on "Snow White" to hit theaters this year -- is expected to�open with a...

Kristen Wiig, so weird on 'SNL,' goes (somewhat) normal for 'Bridesmaids'

2011-05-08 00:00:00

Kristen Wiig has just come off an average Saturday night, one that required her to wear a 2-foot-high wig, shuffle lethargically around a stripper pole and bury her face in Helen Mirren's cleavage. "I was like, 'Are you cool with this? 'Cause I'm...

Independent Spirit Awards go through changes

2010-03-05 00:00:00

Those seeking a quick primer on Film Independent's Spirit Awards need only YouTube Mickey Rourke's acceptance speech at last year's ceremony. The "Wrestler" star began his address -- which clocked in at an Oscar-unfriendly six minutes -- by imploring the...

Saturday's TV Highlights: 'Adventureland' on Showtime

2010-06-11 21:35:40

L.A. as filtered by love in '(500) Days of Summer'

2009-07-31 00:00:00

"(500) Days of Summer" is a movie about obsessions -- gentle, often charming and non-stalkerish obsessions, for the most part, but obsessions all the same. Chief among them -- after romantic love, the subject that stands always at the heart of the story,...

Movies with Jim Carrey, Richard Gere, Uma Thurman to screen at Sundance Film Festival

2008-12-05 00:00:00

For years the Sundance Film Festival has featured a smattering of big-time stars in its smaller movies. But January's gathering might have more recognizable faces than most Sundance red carpets in recent memory -- Jim Carrey, Richard Gere, William Hurt,...

Omarr's Daily Astrological Forecast October 5, 2011

2011-09-21 02:18:11

BIRTHDAY GUY: Actor Jesse Eisenberg was born in Queens, New York City, on this date in 1983. This birthday guy earned an Oscar nomination for his performance in the lead role in the movie "The Social Network." He's also appeared in "Zombieland,"...

'All's Faire in Love' review: Part "Role Models," part "Adventureland," all excruciating

2011-10-27 00:00:00

Zero stars (out of four) If you don’t like the word “penis” but crack up at the use of “wang,” “ding dong,” “wenis” and “wiener,” this is your movie. In “All’s Faire in Love,&...

Thinking of taking time to see this? Take a pass

2011-03-03 06:54:00

Status updated

2009-11-06 00:00:00

Even before the undead yet live-wire comedy-horror hit "Zombieland," Jesse Eisenberg had established a beachhead as the thinking man's Michael Cera: slender and sensitive but also emotionally tough and sinewy. In "The Squid and the Whale," playing the...

'Zombieland'

2010-02-01 17:31:32

In an America that has been overrun by the undead, and where most people use the names of cities as their own names, student Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg, "Adventureland") teams up with self-styled avenger Tallahassee ( Woody Harrelson) to reach the West...

'Youth in Revolt'

2010-01-08 00:00:00

"Youth in Revolt" isn't bad -- the cast is too good for it to be bad -- but archly comic coming-of-age fables are tricky things, and this adaptation of the first three C.D. Payne stories about an Oakland teenager's improbable life, times, fantasies and...

What happens when you take Alexander Payne out of Alexander Payne? We'll find out in this writing-directing effort from Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (who co-wrote Payne's "The Descendants") in which a teenager copes with insecurity and his mom's obnoxious boyfriend (Steve Carell) during a summer working

2013-04-25 15:17:00

Love, travel, drugs and jazz intersect in this drama about young people (Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart, Garrett Hedlund) trying to soak up as much culture and inspiration and pleasure as possible. What's new: Some thought Jack Kerouac's seminal novel was unfilmable. Apparently not.

2012-12-27 14:47:00

The first-rate 2009 film "Adventureland," a tale of suburban ennui and coming of age at a vintage park, was not based on the former Chicago-area park of that name, but one on Long Island, where director Greg Mottola worked in his youth. It was shot mostly at Kennywood, near Pittsburgh.

2012-08-14 00:00:00