I need another TV show obsession like a hole in the head but always ready to gorge on tasty TV goodness, I thought I’d check ABC’s highly recommended Eastwick.
It is my humble opinion that witches have been grossly under-represented on TV since the glory days of Willow and Tara on Buffy The Vampire Slayer, but after watching Eastwick I am glad to report that there are 3 new girls in town brewing up a supernatural storm!
The premise of the show is familiar: a mysterious stranger bestows magical powers on three-not-unattractive-ladies. Based, of course, on the classic movie The Witches Of Eastwick.
The show stars Rebecca Romijn (Ugly Betty, X-Men), Lindsay Price (Lipstick Jungle, 90210) and Jaime Ray Newman (teen TV fans might recognise her as Mindy O’Dell from the criminally overlooked Veronica Mars), as our paranormal protagonists. The series kicks off introducing each of our enchantresses at the Eastwick town fair celebrating the rich, magical history of the town (witch burning by a swathe of rabid pilgrims). As chance (and script writers) would have it, three coins fall from the skies directly into the paths of our ladies, each of them takes the coin to the local wishing fountain in the town square to make a wish – simultaneously, of course! Cue gusts of wind, blowing hair and dramatic music. Seconds later Veronica Cartwright is attacked by red ants while reading a story to a particularly well-behaved group of children, and the fun begins!
A handsome stranger from New York (Paul Gross) arrives shortly after, and implants himself firmly in the middle of the shenanigans. Buying up half the town, and managing to hit on all three of our ladies in one day, he hints at our heroes’ latent powers and encourages their harnessing. Despite Veronica Cartwright waking up from a coma just to deliver a garbled foreboding message regarding this charming newcomer, our ladies pay little attention, and continue with business as…well, i wouldn’t say usual; after some psychic nightmares, earthquakes and impromptu hypnosis, we have some drama on our hands!
Now, I’m not going to give away the ending, but let’s just say after episode 1… I’m already hooked.
Conjure me up the next episode of Eastwick please…
The Beat That My Heart Skipped was one of my favourite movies of 2005, and won director Jacques Audiard a multitude of awards on the festival circuit including a BAFTA for Best Film (not in the English language). So, it was with more than a little excitement that this Francophile sauntered down to his favourite Soho cinema to catch Audiard’s follow up A Prophet.
The movie begins with 19-year-old Malik El Djebena’s (Tahar Rahim) imprisonment for violence against the police, a charge to which he professes his innocence. Arriving in jail somewhat naive, and evidently fearful, he quickly attracts the attention of the Corsican prison kingpin Cesar Luciani (Niels Arestrup).
Spotting an opportunity to exploit Malik following a lewd proposition by Reyeb (another inmate with connections to Cesar), Cesar forces Malik to kill Reyeb, or he will be killed himself. After a failed attempt to extradite himself from the situation, Malik concedes and kills Reyeb in a brutal scene, ensuring the protection of the Corsicans for the rest of his sentence. Cesar then takes him under his charge as a dogsbody, making coffee, sweeping floors and such like.
Showing a bit more intelligence than his arrogant new acquaintances credit him with, Malik studies in the prison school, learning to read, and most importantly, learns Italian. When, an increasingly paranoid Cesar becomes aware of this, he has Malik become his ‘eyes and ears’, surreptitiously spying on the other Corsicans. With Cesar’s connections ensuring that Malik is never caught for killing Reyeb, he qualifies for ‘good behaviour’ day leave, which Cesar exploits for his own gain having Malik carrying out a variety of criminal activities on Cesar’s behalf.
Tiring of his status within the Corsican group, and uneasy with his reputation amongst his Muslim prison mates (constantly at odds with the rule of the minority Corsicans), Malik sets out to use his day leave as an opportunity to get his own piece of the pie, and sets up a drug run with friend and ex-inmate Ryad.
This is a major turning point of the movie and to tell you more anymore would be criminal! You need to check it out for yourself.
What I can tell you is that the performances in this movie are astounding. Tahar Rahim is magnificent as Malik. The subtle changes in character as he grows and deals with how his life unfolds are expertly portrayed. It’s difficult to enthuse enough about this masterful turn, and considering this is his first feature film it’s an amazing achievement, and truly deserving of his BAFTA nomination. Niels Arestrup is also enthralling as kingpin Cesar. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a role played so straight, and consequently, so unnervingly. The apparent lack of consideration for the consequences of crimes committed is chilling. All played out without any hint of camp grandiosity. Genius.
A Prophet has been, rather lazily, called the new/French Scarface, but in my opinion, stands heads above Scarface and the like. There is no glorification or delight in the violence and crime on show here, just the stark reality of lives ruined, and the ruthlessness need to survive. It’s been quite a while since I have been so emotionally engaged in a movie and I cannot recommend it enough!
A cinematic master class from Monsieur Audiard!
A Prophet (Un Prophete) is on general release now.
It’s that time of the year again, when the film industry gives itself a huge self-congratulatory pat on the back for a job well done – Awards season! It’s been a bumper year at the box office with over £1 billion in box office receipts in the UK alone – so there’s plenty of reason to celebrate.
Hot on the heels of James Cameron’s Avatar triumph at the Golden Globes came the BAFTA nominations, for which Avatar is nominated for 8 awards. Can we expect Avatar to clear up or are we in for an upset? An Education and The Hurt Locker have also received 8 nods, so let the luvvie battle commence!
Let’s look at the five contenders for Best Picture…
1. Avatar
If you’re reading this I’m assuming you have not moved to another planet and, as such, are well aware of Avatar. On course to become the highest grossing movie ever, Cameron will be eclipsing his own Titanic as the number 1 movie of all time if it continues to do the business. An epic cinematic achievement with truly breathtaking visuals – has to been seen in 3D!
2. An Education
Based on Lynn Barber’s memoir and scripted by Nick Hornby, An Education is a beautiful coming of age story of one girl’s escape from life in dreary suburban London in the 60’s following a chance meeting with a charming older man. Featuring standout performances from Peter Sarsgaard and newcomer Carey Mulligan, An Education is sure to be picking up a few trophies!
3. The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow’s brilliant The Hurt Locker is the critics’ favourite of the year, having already scooped the US Critics choice award for Best Picture and Director. The Hurt Locker follows an elite army bomb squad in the early days of the Iraq war. It’s an intense movie, perfectly capturing the ‘ticking clock’ over each of the movies players, with nerve shredding effect on the viewer! A real gem you might have missed at the cinema. Check out the trailer below.
4. Precious
We’ve previously mentioned Precious in our top 10 movies to look out for in 2010. A brilliant, heart-wrenching story of a teenager who has basically had The.Worst.Childhood.Ever! With a supporting actress Golden Globe already in the bag for Mo’nique, success is likely to be repeated in upcoming ceremonies.
5. Up In The Air
Written and directed by Jason Reitman (Juno) and starring George Clooney, Up In The Air follows Clooney’s Ryan Bingham as he is paid to travel around the US laying off thousands of workers, while happily ensconced in his little 1st class bubble racking up frequent flier miles. Life is going along quite well until two women enter his life. The first, Alex (Vera Farmiga) whom he falls for, and secondly, Natalie (Anna Kendrick) a newbie fresh out of business school who Bingham must take under his charge in a city-to-city jaunt. With a touch of old school Hollywood, Up In The Air is a delight. Smart, and at times very funny – especially Anna Kendrick – it’s a well deserved Best Picture nomination and all three lead performances are nominated too boot!
So there we have it, which will be triumphant on the night? Tune into the BAFTAs broadcast on BBC1 on Sunday February 19th.
Don’t forget the daddy of awards shows – the Oscars taking place on March 7th bringing us the highlight of awards season – the Oscars red carpet! Forget the gold statues, the true barometer of who’s hot or not for the year is that carpet! Also serves as a good indicator of who has a few too many sycophantic ‘yes men’ assistants – Yes darling, that swan outfit is AMAZING!!!
And for those of you who tire off all this glitz, schmaltz, and in-group back slapping check out the alternative Oscars – The Razzies – where Hollywood is reminded that for every Hurt Locker, there’s a Norbit or Catwoman stinking-up theatres!
Fringe is the hot new US show starring Joshua Jackson and produced by J.J. Abrams – creator of Lost, director of Star Trek and producer of Cloverfield. With credentials like that, I knew this show was going to be worth a look – I wasn’t wrong. The season starts with a series of mysterious events that quickly draw the attention of the FBI, who dedicate an office of their ‘Fringe‘ Science team to investigate. Without giving too much away (you should check it out for yourselves) – a huge conspiracy is slowly unveiled involving classic archetypal bad guys, evil corporations, and a genius scientist who has spent the past 20 years in a psychiatric institution.
Fringe is frequently labelled ‘the new X-files’ – FBI investigating seemingly paranormal events – and owes a lot to J.J. Abrams’ glossy sci-fi mystery touch, but for me the thing that really sets Fringe apart from other shows are the characters. Joshua Jackson (the beloved Pacey Witter from Dawson’s Creek) as Peter Bishop and Anna Torv as Agent Durham are both fantastic, but it’s John Noble as Walter Bishop the crazy scientist who steals the show, he is a bona fide scene chomper!
Season 1 is a ride from start to finish and, of course, ends with a major cliffhanger – thankfully, we won’t have to wait too long for another fix. In the meantime, you can catch up on all episodes of Fringe season 1 here!
With Avatar sat firmly atop the box office and a raft of exciting new films set to be released, we at blinkbox – always looking ahead – thought we’d serve you up a smorgasbord of cinematic delights due in 2010. There are about 100 films we are already salivating over, but the 10 films that have us most giddy with excitement are…
1. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
There is literally no escaping Twilight fever for some time to come, not that we at blinkbox would want to! Those of you who have seen the brilliant 30 Days of Night will delight that director David Slade takes the franchise reigns for the third installment in the saga. The story resumes after Edward and Bella’s return to Forks at the end of New Moon. Following Edward’s proposal to Bella and a promise to make her a ‘true’ Cullen, the good times are short lived. With the threat of the Volturi hanging over them, and a series of suspicious murders in the Seattle area, danger inevitably finds its way to the young lovers’ doorstep. For those of you who haven’t read the books, I won’t give any more away; suffice to say Eclipse is set to be the most thrilling of the series so far!
Unfortunately we don’t have an Eclipse trailer for you yet, but we wouldn’t leave you Twihards hanging like that! So, just for all you Pattinson lovers out there, check out the trailer for Remember Me.
2. Clash Of The Titans
White-hot from the success of Terminator Salvation and Avatar, Sam Worthington stars in this monster remake of the classic from director Louis Leterrier. Also starring Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton and Nicholas Hoult, Clash tells the story of Perseus who is born a god but raised as a man and must battle Hades to save his family and prevent him seizing power from Zeus and unleashing hell on earth. Sounds epic, right? The teaser footage released by Warner Bros so far looks awesome, check it out below…
3. Eagle Of The Ninth
2010 is definitely the year of swords and sandals! Following on the heels of Clash of The Titans we will see the release of two films based on the story of the Ninth legion of the Roman Empire’s disappearance in Scotland – Eagle of The Ninth and Centurion. For my money, Eagle of The Ninth should be the more interesting of the two. Directed by Kevin McDonald (State Of Play), Eagle stars a fresh young cast including Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell, alongside Brit favourite Mark Strong and the incomparable Donald Sutherland. This adaptation of Rosemary Sutcliff’s bestselling novel set in Roman ruled Britain 140AD, follows centurion Marcus Aquila’s arrival in Scotland to investigate the disappearance of the Ninth Legion, including his father. So far, so pleasant journey…? Not quite, all does not go to plan, as Aquila battles the savages north of Hadrian’s Wall to honour the memory of his father and retrieve the lost legion’s emblem – The Eagle of The Ninth.
4. Precious: Based On The Novel by Sapphire
Already gathering a ton of nominations stateside, Precious will finally be released in the UK on January 29th. I’m sure most of you will have heard the buzz around the stand out performances from newcomer Gabourey Sidibe, Mariah Carey and Mo’nique with talk of Oscar nominations abound. Without spoiling it for you all… the story follows 16 year old NYC native Precious through the birth of her second child. The film is a grim affair really, dealing with abuse, incest and Precious’ heart-breaking self loathing. Don’t be put off by the subject matter though as this film is excellent!
5. The Lovely Bones Peter Jackson’s much delayed The Lovely Bones, based on the bestseller by Alice Sebold, will be released on February 19th. Initially, Ryan Gosling was set to star, but left a few days prior to shooting due to ‘creative differences’ with Jackson. Not to worry, Mark Wahlberg stepped in, and features alongside Rachel Weisz, Stanley Tucci, Susan Sarandon and an outstanding performance from Atonement’s Saoirse Ronan. The story is told from the perspective of teenager Susie Salmon who has been murdered and watches her family, and her killer, while their lives effectively disintegrate after her death. Powerless to affect events on Earth, the film follows Susie’s anguish in limbo as events on Earth take a further sinister turn.
6. Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland Burton’s back! And with Johnny Depp in tow as the Mad Hatter, and Helena Bonham-Carter as the Queen of Hearts, Alice In Wonderland is surely the weirdest, most fantastical, blockbuster of the year. The trailer is entirely enchanting and suggest the film is faithful to the darker elements of Lewis Carroll’s classic novel. Not much to say other than watch it and marvel at Burton’s genius at work!
7. Green Zone Matt Damon is quietly becoming the most in-demand, bankable actor in Hollywood. Even without Jason Bourne, recent turns in Sodebergh’s The Informant, Scorsese’s The Departed and the upcoming Clint Eastwood helmed Invictus have cemented his status, and shown his knack for selecting great roles. Teaming up again with Paul Greengrass for Green Zone – based on the book Imperial Life In The Emerald City – a thriller set in the early days of the Iraq war where Damon’s character is searching for weapons of mass destruction. Happy hunting! Also stars Amy Ryan, Greg Kinnear and Jason Isaacs.
8. Iron Man 2
Promising to be bigger and more bad-ass than IM1, Jon Favreau brings us Iron Man 2 with a few choice additions to the cast the second time around, most notably the fabulous Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow. Now that the world is aware of the identity of their new heavily armoured superhero, Iron Man tries to deal with the press, government and the public, as well as confronting new enemies. Iron Man was a monster box office hit taking over $575m worldwide, a success that is likely to be eclipsed by this sequel. Check out the action below.
9. Sex And The City 2
Ok, we admit it! We loved Sex & The City The Movie. Well, $400m plus at the box office suggest quite a few of you did too. Carrie and the gang return for yet more NYC shenanigans, and doubtless over analysing of their relationships. Details have been kept closely under wraps, but we do have this fabulous sparkly teaser trailer to whet your appetite.
10. Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time
Our guilty pleasure of the year! Mr Gyllenhall has been relatively quiet of late but returns to the big screen in this year’s Brothers and Disney’s summer tent-pole blockbuster Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time, directed by Mike Newell (Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire) and featuring Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina and RockNRolla’s Toby Kebbell. The story is set in Persia and follows the prince in his efforts to save his kingdom from an angry ruler threatening to unleash a deadly sandstorm. Ok, not exactly Shakespeare, but it’s a summer blockbuster – check your brain at the door and enjoy the ride! All the shirtless, sandy action below…
It’s a bumper year kids! Check out more trailers including A-Team, Shutter Island and Robin Hood on our trailers page, and don’t forget that the end of 2010 will also see the release of of the first half of the final Harry Potter film, as well as the reboot of Tron in Tron Legacy and Michel Gondry’s feature follow up to Science Of Sleep Green Hornet written by and starring Seth Rogen. Best of all – there’s still time to go to the lobby and get ourselves some treats!
The funny thing about making a movie as an ode to the radio DJs of the 1960s and their wacky ways is that we probably know those famous vinyl-twisters now as quiz show hosts and greyish parts of Radio 2 furniture. So as much as I could feel for Philip Seymour Hoffman’s US disc jockey and Nick Frost’s chubby record-spinner I couldn’t shake the thought of Noel Edmonds and Dave Lee Travis. My sympathy kind of washed away because of that.
The Boat That Rocked is just a series of light-hearted sketches based on a ship which is also a pirate radio station. The station is called Radio Rock and they illegally broadcast rock’n'roll to kids in the UK during the sixties. Parents were supposed to hate it and their children had to secretly listen to it on radios under their pillows. I suppose it had become a phenomenon and Richard Curtis, the writer and director, must remember it all very fondly. He certainly fills it all with the music he probably loved most as a child. And I suppose that gets slightly entertaining at times.
I think we all know that if Curtis has his hand in a film it’ll be light and fluffy. You might emerge from the cinema with a dot of warmth in your heart, but I don’t think you’ll feel as if you’ve come away with much else. And it’s the same here.
The cast are pretty much a catalogue of reasonably successful British actors wanting to be in a reasonably successful British film with a very successful British director at the helm. Rhys Ifans is in there as his usual long-haired lady-chasing self. Bill Nighy is the manager of Radio Rock. Unfortunately for everyone, he dances quite a bit like my mum. There’s also Chris O’Dowd and Katherine Parkinson we all know best from the IT Crowd. And the you’ve got Kenneth Branagh as a government minister who wants to see the ship sunk. Even Emma Thompson turns up in the end for a small cameo appearance.
The only time an actor really brings the film to life is when Philip Seymour Hoffman is there as the Count. I am still yet to find him bad in anything. A cracking actor. Other than his input the comedy is often cheap. You might want to make up your own mind though by watchingThe Boat That Rock here now.
There’s nothing I like better than a chilly evening of bloodcurling movies and my front door being plastered with eggs thrown by miniature Michael Myerses and Freddie Kruegerses. Of course, these trick-or-treaters wouldn’t all make an omelette of my porch if I’d only answer the door and offer them any of a selection of Viscounts and Jammy Dodgers. Or a crips five pound note to run off to buy 20 fags with. Once it’s past their bedtime and their parents aren’t looking angrily on thinking the effort they put in deserves at least a Milky Way, I get on with it being Halloween and looking to scare myself to death with horror movies until dawn (of the dead).
Now if you look around blinkbox and have any interest on what I recommend you watch on Halloween, then read on. You’ll find that Night Of The Living Dead is available for free. If you haven’t watched it then catch up with the rest of us old horror pros. It’s renowned to have kick started George A. Romero’s zombie canon. The follow-ups down the years may be better made in ways, but this is a valid, valuable classic worthy of its status. There are more free horror movies too.
It might be one from the early eighties you fancy, with Spielberg’s family friendly fingers on it. That’s Poltergeist. It was Tobe Hooper, famous for the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, who actually directed it. But Spielberg, they say, came in to clean the darker edges up. I’d like to see what it was like before he bustled on in there. I get the feeling Hooper could have made something truly rotten. Although the end result in itself is enjoyable and playful. If you like the idea of girls being sucked into TVs (a routine re-used in Nightmare On Elm Street 3 I recall, but without the charm) and the scariest bed you’re ever likely to see on film, then go for it.
If you’re looking for more recent horror movies then there’s a lot to choose from, like Dead Snow, The Hills Run Red, Trick R Treat or Last House On The Left. Another one is the retelling of the tale of Jason Voorhees and Friday The 13th. The original was something of a Halloween copycat, but managed to have about ten sequels with Voorhees travelling the country in his hockey-mask to stab and slice youngsters finding love. This new version has the blood and guts and pitchforks through the chest, but with an increase in pace and an obvious improvement in special effects.
Anyway, my main advice to all is to look through the window nearest your front door before running out to open it any knock. When the coast is clear, have a look around blinkbox’s horror movies library and get your hands on a scary movie or two. If you do, then let me know what you picked and even how much it made your popcorn leap from its heated cardboard box or your heart completely freeze.
Some might say that it’s been the entertainment industry’s Year of the Blooduscker. And I’d go along with that. It started in Sweden with Let The Right One In, that tender little drama of two isolated youngsters falling in love, one of whom, we quickly find out, is a vampire. Then our TV screens were lit up by HBO with True Blood, which was as bloody and twisted as you could find and has a season two coming out soon. Even in October we had a new release at the cinema with Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, directed by Paul Weitz. Oddly, it’s his brother, Chris Weitz, though, who is in charge of the hottest vampire feature of the year: The Twilight Saga: New Moon.
For those foolish enough to forget the first episode in this series, it all concerned Bella Swann arriving in a new town and falling head over heels in love with the coolest, but baddest boy in school. Who also happens to be about 100 years old! That’s Edward Cullen, and yes, he’s a vampire. But one with a heart that not everyone wants to stake. The first parts to any series are only handshakes and pleased-to-meet-yous though. So it’s normally part two that strips away those introductory layers and gets to the real meat of the subject. That’s definitely the case with New Moon.
This time around, Bella, played by the ever-reliable Kristen Stewart, has to deal with her one true love disappearing from sight. A nightmare for anyone, I’m sure you’d agree. Especially if he is played by Robert Pattinson, dashing as ever and ghostly pale. He’s hot property, even if looking a little under-cooked. Bella wants her garlic-allergic man back and will go to any death-defying length to get him. We also get to see Jacob, played by Taylor Lautner, the bad guys from Twilight and some werewolves howling for Bella’s attention too. That will make this into the sort of high-paced action romance we’ve been waiting for.
Cross November 20th in your diaries as it’s the official release date. If you can’t wait that long and want to see a bumper bag of clips from New Moon, then go to blinkbox and work yourself into a frenzy.
It really has been quite a good summer for movies. Obviously much different to last year’s extreme quiet caused by the writers’ strike. I went to see District 9 yesterday and that was a rollicking good blood-and-guts action movie.
It opens with the introduction of Wikus, the main human character played by Sharlto Copley, and a little history of how aliens first came to Earth. Their city-sized ship had stalled in the sky above Johannesburg some twenty years ago and they can’t get it moving again. So down to Earth they drop, with governments and authorities suitably terrified. With the world afraid of these new illegal immigrants, who are known as ‘Prawns’, they are stored in a zone on the outskirts of the city. That is District 9.
It’s a horrible and slummy place and your sympathy quickly grows for the Prawns. I know mine did. They’re seen largely as nameless savages, and their eating habits to humans certainly make them seem that way. They root through rubbish and find nourishment in tyres. The aliens’ new addiction on this planet though is catfood. Sometimes they go wild with excitement over it, and generally trade any goods they have in exchange for a hundred tins mashed livers.
Now, Wikus is hired to take charge of the eviction of the Prawns as the government want them kind of imprisoned 200km away from human life. Whilst doing this, he messes with a canister he finds in one alien’s shack. It sprays his black sauce into his face causing Wikus to choke and splutter. He has been infected with Prawn DNA and is turning into one.
From that part on you’ve got Mikus joining forces with a scientific alien and being tested on in his father-in-law’s military lab. Wikus has a prawny hand now and his appetite can only be satisfied by tasty tins of Felix. The army are hunting him down and all other humans want nothing to do with him. It never really gets all that emotional though.
The effects in this film are brilliant. The Prawns rarely look unreal. And exploding body parts splatter on the camera lens expertly. I giggled madly when in a late-on gunfight Wikus fires a pig at a soldier too. Good horror film sort of stuff, with a comic edge. You can see in those bits why Peter Jackson wanted to be involved as a producer, having seen a six-minute version of the story in 2005. And Wikus’s mutation has a slight David Cronenberg feel to it. There’s a feeling throughout too of South Africa’s still recent history and the apartheid that the world was generally against in its later days. But that horror is only implied rather than directly mentioned.
Neill Blomkamp, the director, was a 3D animator for TV series like Smallville, and he was sort of well known for that dancing Transformesque car ad a few years ago. He’s clearly made his name here and might come back to blow up more heads and reinvigorate the action genre, which is a bit Michael Bay-ed up at the minute. I’m personally hoping for more Prawn. Top stuff.
Kevin James plays the fat man in question, Paul Blart. His name is also on the co-writers list. I wondered for a minute whether this story of a tortured man suffering the ridicule of ordinary people might be a touch auto-biographical. That Kevin James himself feels bad about the heaviness he’s made quite a bit of money from and actually fears the teasing of physically faultless Hollywood actors like Zac Efron or Jean-Claude Van Damme. I doubt it though. He’s probably just cashing in on playing the sort of role he’s already become a bit likeable in. Films like Hitch and the TV series King of Queens already have him as the kind-hearted, but piggish clown. Can’t blame him really.
The story is that Blart can’t become the cop he wanted to be, so ends up working in the mall as security there. He doesn’t carry a gun, gets taunted by a pen salesman over his over-tight shirt and wears a moustache. He is also hypoglycaemic, so sometimes faints when his blood sugar becomes too low. The only possible good that might come for him at all lies in Amy. She has opened a hair attachment and wig stall in the middle of the mall. Blart circles her, gets her phone number, but makes a drunken fool of himself on a night out. Luckily for him, the mall is broken into by what looks like a hardrock outfit and Amy, along with his friends and daughter, is held hostage. Will Blart save the day? You’ll have to watch the movie to find out.
