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At The Movies With Peter Travers: "Crossing Over" And A Full February Scumbucket!

February 26, 2009 5:31 PM

With Academy Awards season behind us, Rolling Stone movie critic Peter Travers is back to give you the heads up on what to see and what to avoid this weekend at the box office. The big new release is Crossing Over, starring Harrison Ford. The film, a series of vignettes in which Ford plays a Los Angeles immigration officer, tries to be both Traffic and Crash but never reaches the heights of either of the Oscar-winning Best Pictures. Perhaps that's because it's been kicked around so much, edited so many times and tweaked by so many people that even a cameo by Best Actor-winning Sean Penn was excised. Maybe the DVD will restore the director's original vision. In the meantime Travers recommends you see Italy's Gomorrah, which had to have been the best foreign film of 2008, if only because the clueless Academy didn't even nominate for Best Foreign Film.

Another film Travers is excited about: Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience — though Travers seems concerned that some of the JoBros' phallic, foam-blasting stage props exploding out of the screen might be too much for the nine-year-olds in the audience to take. Also, Travers happily welcomes a whole bunch of craptacular new films into his Scumbucket, including Pink Panther 2, Friday the 13th, Fired Up! and an old (least) favorite, Beverly Hills Chihuahua on DVD.

This week Travers debuts a new feature onto his blog: asktravers@rollingstone.com. Did something that Peter said happen to get under your skin? Disagree with one of his reviews? Want to point out a mistake? Or state your case that Robert Duvall is the best actor of the past 40 years? Send Travers an email. Until then, check out At the Movies above.


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11 Comments


xanax piano fright | November 24, 2009 6:22 PM

Very interesting site. Hope it will always be alive!

Eugene McCann | March 4, 2009 11:11 AM

Just how good will watchmen really be?

bubblesxxxx | March 3, 2009 11:06 AM

he is not very hot he is all right but he is a bit ugly!. i think joe jonas is a lot brtter

JSuzart | March 1, 2009 5:21 PM

Is everybody waiting that Travers make a mistake??? He doesn't have said anything wrong and everybody knows lame Galadiator won Best Picture in 2000

Kevin the Robot | February 27, 2009 8:41 PM

Peter, Fanboys takes place in the late 90's before Phantom Menace came out. They're trying to see the movie before their friend dies from cancer. Back then, everyone was thinking a movie as good as the original trilogy was going to come out. And seeing Kristen Bell in a Leia slave bikini is worth the price of admission.

bizarro | February 27, 2009 12:32 PM

Duh Travers- Gladiator beat Traffic as Best Picture... yes i know its silly to believe but it actually happened!

Bo | February 27, 2009 6:38 AM

Video is not even at half, and it's already the scum buckett time! It must be painful in your cinema these days. That's the good point of European multiplexes, such movies comes only there and then, there's never a tsunami of them.

RollingStoned | February 27, 2009 2:59 AM

Crossing Over is just the latest film to be shafted by Harvey Weinstein. Seriously, does this man even like films?

Anonymous | February 27, 2009 1:09 AM

everyone makes mistakes; rock on Travers.

treefingers | February 26, 2009 7:12 PM

check your head old man, you fit the archetype of the academy voters perfectly.
and you sound infinitely more credible with unchecked facts like traffic being best picture.

Scarface | February 26, 2009 6:20 PM

Peter, Traffic was nominated for Best Picture it didn't win.

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