It’s Me, Margaret.(the first big screen interpretation of the novel, and backed by filmmaker and producer James L. Brooks) is being released soon after the documentaryJudy Blume Forever. As someone admittedly unfamiliar with both the novel and Judy Blume’s works, one thing that stood out ...
In the United States and Canada,Are You There God? It's Me, Margaretwas released alongsideBig George ForemanandSisu, and was projected to gross $7–9 million from 3,334 theaters in its opening weekend. The film made $2.3 million on its first day, including $600,000 from early previews...
It’s Me, Margaret. By Bob Garver It’s hard to believe that the new big-screen adaptation of the classic Judy Blume novel “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.” made only $6.8 million at the domestic box office this past weekend. The theater where I saw the movie was more cr...
remember the story ofBatman: Mask of the Phantasm.Most Batman fans agree it’s one of the greatest of all Batman movies — it comes in at #2 onScreenCrush’s own Batman film ranking— and yet it grossed a tiny fraction of what much weaker DC movies have earned. (...
But it’s also strangely conservative and anti-gnostic, with the idea being that God (like the tribal O.T. Jehovah) walked the earth, but rather than being loving and benevolent was, in Carpenter’s words “pissed off”. Somehow he gets cast out to the “dark side”—the mirror ...
Those who shudder at the very idea of watching a scary movie may not have seen Carrie, but they know the image of a girl in a pretty prom dress, draped in pig's blood. They recognize the howl of Margaret White: "They're all gonna laugh at you!" Sissy Spacek stars as the ...
It’s Me, Margaret. It’s totally understandable—the movie came out in April, one of the only times of the year when Oscars bloggers are taking a break from forecasting the next big winners. “Are You There God” perhaps made the film sound like one of thosepreachy religious moviesthat...