CultureFeast (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
I love M. Night Shyamalan’s films. The man makes me speechless. The storylines in Sixth Sense, Signs and The Village will always be amongst my favorites, especially The Village. There was just something haunting about it and the character that Joaquin Phoenix played. Lady in the Water was different from what the first trailers made [...]
Hecklerspray (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
M. Night Shyamalan's latest effort looked to be the return to darker, more suspense filled territory after Lady In The Water drowned with critics and audiences alike. Unfortunately while the premise suggests that in this film shit happens, we're unhappy to say that, while score one for pun usage, it turns out that Happening's shit.
Irish Blogs (Free subscription) | 22/06/2008
M Night Shyamalan might have come a long way since The Sixth Sense frightened the tar out of us back in 1999, but it’s been steadily downhill. Signs was a misfire, The Village a mess and Lady in the Water an abomination. His star has fallen so far that his latest film, The Happening, almost didn’t happen at all. The script was rejected by his usual backers, with the writer/director eventually finding...
ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
Each of M. Night Shyamalan’s studio films thus far have employed, or even exploited, genre scenarios to similar ends—to question the unknown, to collapse boundaries between well-trod fantasy tropes and untranslatable spirituality, and ultimately, to preach the importance of...
The Rage Diaries (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
The New Republic posts a movie review that is so funny, I had to actually open another application to give myself time to calm down. Christopher Orr's spoiler-rich "Movie Review: The Happening" (June 13, 08) successfully replicates the experience of...
My Films Blog (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
For the first time since March, four movies all grossed more than £1 million in a single weekend. Leading the pack by some margin is The Incredible Hulk, with a solid £3.25 million opening weekend from 484 cinemas. This includes...
Dark Party Review (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
M. Night Shyamalan's Amazing Fall From Grace It’s an ancient story: one day you’re the shiniest, most magnificent trout in the river and the next day they’re gutting you with a fillet knife and tossing your head into a bucket of guts. Welcome to Hollywood M. Night Shyamalan. “The Happening,” which opened last week to an onslaught of gleefully negative reviews, never stood a chance. By
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
M. Night Shyamalan delivers another visually arresting dud.
Cinema de Merde (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
Fable about this chick who lives in a pool and has hope for mankind or some such.
KOMO - News - Entertainment (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
Maybe, in retrospect, it wasn't such a good idea for M. Night Shyamalan to release his new movie The Happening on Friday the 13th. April 1st might have been more appropriate, particularly for those who were hoping for another creepy, twisty and ultimately satisfying M. Night outing.
io9 (Free subscription) | 16/06/2008
The Incredible Hulk easily crushed the competition at the box office over the weekend, but you'll have to wait another week to see if it's a massive hit. The new Hulk movie took in $55.8 million,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
KOMO - News - Entertainment (Free subscription) | 16/06/2008
"The Incredible Hulk" was a box-office bruiser, yanking in $54.5 million over opening weekend and laying to rest the stigma of his unappreciated big-screen adventure five years ago.
Zeigen (Free subscription) | 16/06/2008
Updating my earlier post, it seems The Happening scored a horrific 20% on the Rotten Tomato meter, continuing the downward trend. It’s too early to tell total box office, but it does look like it’ll do better business than Lady in the Water, and when I substitute opening weekend gross for total box office, you can [...]
Defamer (Free subscription) | 16/06/2008
A just-about-perfect L.A. weekend is now over. Stir a little extra Hazelnut Coffee Mate into your World's Sexiest Assistant mug, and bite absentmindedly into some raspberry-jelly-filled box office...
MTV News (Free subscription) | 16/06/2008
"The Incredible Hulk" topped the weekend box office, while "Kung Fu Panda" landed at #2 and "The Happening" opened at #3.
