Posts Tagged ‘Rock of Ages’

Doug Strassler’s Mid-Year Film Report Card

Written by Doug Strassler on . Posted in NY Press Exclusive

Mark Duplass in Safety Not Guaranteed. Well, the year has just passed the halfway mark, and while it hasn’t offered a ton of big screen gems, there have certainly been some performances worth remembering. Below, I present my superlatives for the best performances of the half-year:   Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role: Mark Duplass, Your Sister’s Sister
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“Rock of Ages” Fails to Rock at All

Written by NYPress on . Posted in Arts & Film, Blog, Film, Theater

Clearly no one was in a rockin’ mood this weekend. “Rock of Ages,” the musical adaptation starring Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin and Catherine Zeta-Jones, earned just $15 million over its opening weekend, the Huffington Post reports. It ranked behind “Prometheus” and even “Madagascar 3,” proving a star-studded cast can lose out to aliens and cuddly,
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