Audrey Tautou in the Watercooler pick of the weekend: Priceless
After two mediocre weekends in a row and a weekend off, I ventured back to the movie theater this Saturday and Sunday, refreshed and reinvigorated. Three of the four movies I saw were good. The fourth one wasn’t bad, but I wasn’t really the target audience [...]
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When you’re 11, there are few things more important than best friends and your own imagination. The upcoming Son of Rambow is a charming and comic celebration of both.
Set in England in the 1980s, it tells the story of two unlikely companions. The first is Lee Carter. Left to his own devices by indifferent parents, he’s [...]
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Paranoid Park is perhaps the most rewarding expression yet of the elusive European arthouse sensibility Gus Van Sant has been exploring in his most recent films. He’s still less interested in a strong narrative than he is in moods and in the internal lives of characters who don’t appear to have any, but he’s achieved [...]
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Here at LiC, we pride ourselves in always being a couple of days late with what the cool kids are talking about. True to form, check out Hulu. It’s a joint venture between two evil empires (GE’s NBC Universal and News Corp’s FOX) bringing you high quality streams of many of your favorite movies and [...]
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Hey boys and girls. The USC School of Cinematic Arts is showing off the work of its students and alumni this weekend at the First Look Festival at USC’s Norris Theatre.
Why do we care? Because the thesis film of friend of LiC Jeff McMahon is a part of the program. It’s a twisted and entertaining little holiday number called [...]
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Patrick Wilson is having trouble with his balls again. Those of you who saw Hard Candy may recall a certain scene involving all manner of horrifying genital hijinks on the part of Mr. Wilson’s pedophile character.
Now, in the dark romantic comedy Barry Munday, he’s set to play a womanizer who wakes up in the hospital following [...]
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Amid slim pickings, perhaps Flawless is this week’s best bet?
This week’s wide releases:
21. Based on the true story of how a bunch of brilliant M.I.T. math students went to work cheating at blackjack in Las Vegas. Because nothing says “excitement” like math nerds playing cards. Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe), Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne and Kevin Spacey [...]
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Actor Richard Widmark died Monday at age 93. Nominated for an Academy Award and winner of a Golden Globe for his first screen performance as the revenge-seeking psychopathic killer, Tommy Udo, in Kiss of Death in 1947, Widmark may be best remembered for the scene where he pushes the mother of his victim down the stairs in her [...]
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The official website for Son of Rambow, the upcoming comedy from Nick Goldsmith and Garth Jennings (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), is up and running.
This is the one about the kid from the strictly religious community in rural England who is exposed to a pirated copy of Rambo: First Blood and then agrees to help make [...]
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Like Michael Haneke’s Caché, it begins with a mysterious videotape. Like Syndromes and a Century, it reboots unexpectedly part way through. Like Hitchcock, it deals with voyeurism and obsession and paranoia. Like Lynch’s own Mulholland Dr., it suggests there is something rotten in the Hollywood Hills.
Oh, and then there’s Robert Blake.
Borrowing tropes and imagery from [...]
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