Cinema Guild may be one of the smallest indie houses out there. They sent out three films for me to consider. Here they are. The Interrupters Genre: Documentary Director: Steve James Premise: “A year in the life of a city grappling with urban violence.” Oscar Chances: None. Rotten Tomatoes: 99% (72 critics; as of 11/26/11)…
Oscar News Awards season will kick off this week with the New York Film Critics announcing their awards on Tuesday. They pushed them back a day, from Monday, in order to screen The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo for consideration. Review Round-Up The Artist, the French silent film that was a smash at the Cannes and Toronto Film…
How many ways do they want this to fail? 5 Star Day Plot Summary: A young man finds the horoscope he read has no bearing on his life, so he seeks out three other individuals born on the same day as he in hopes of finding someone whose life is supported by the horoscope reading…
On Sundays, we list the weekend’s upcoming films along with previews of trailers and posters. On Wednesdays, we preview all of the upcoming new wide and limited releases hitting the theaters the coming weekend. On Fridays, we’ll now tell you what you should see. We pose two questions each week to our contributors and their…
Every week, we’ll take a look back 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 (starting in January) years into the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office that weekend historically. All data is taken from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of…
Is there no ’80’s television program not ripe for the reboot? Nope. 21 Jump Street Plot Summary: Adapting the popular ’80’s TV series about undercover cops, 21 Jump Street finds two rookie cops re-assigned as high school students attempting to ferret out an illegal drug trafficker. Release Date: March 16, 2012 Poster Trailer Rating: None…
Here are the results of last week’s poll. Longtime Compaion (1990) A Single Man (2009) All About My Mother (1999) My Own Private Idaho (1991) Parting Glances (1986) Victim (1961) Velvet Goldmine (1998) Longtime Companion wins and goes into my queue.
Born in New York, New York on April 4, 1932, Anthony Perkins was the son of stage and screen actor Osgood Perkins who died when the younger Perkins was just five years old. Raised by his widowed mother, he made his screen debut in 1953 as young Ruth Gordon’s (Jean Simmons) first boyfriend in The…
Much to my surprise, the best screener package I ever remember receiving arrived today. First, let me say that I got two packages, both from UPS and only one of them requiring a signature…weird. Before I get to the really cool one, the other package was from Fox Searchlight featuring Martha Marcy May Marlen and…
Two Snow White projects in a year? What are the odds that both will be any good? Mirror, Mirror Plot Summary: Tarsem Singh’s comedic re-interpretation of the classic Grimm Brothers fairy tale pits a beautiful girl against a vain queen intent on marrying the handsome, wealthy prince. Release Date: March 16, 2012 Poster Trailer Rating:…