François Cluzet in Tell No One
We’re not talking about an arthouse success on the order of The Visitor ($9 million and counting at the box office), but THR’s Steven Zeitchik reports that Guillaume Canet’s French thriller Tell No One has quietly pulled in nearly $1.7 million in just under 4 weeks from only 77 theaters. [...]
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The original Tron - annoyingly squeezed
Last week I passed along the Comic-Yawn report about footage to a sequel to Tron that I had never heard anything about. You didn’t care, but after thinking about it a little, the 5th grader inside of me got a bit excited, especially over word Jeff Bridges was in the [...]
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Every balanced cinematic diet can use a little junk food…
Enzo G. Castellari’s The Inglorious Bastards, aka Counterfeit Commandos, aka Deadly Mission, aka Hell’s Heroes, aka G.I Bro (!!), isn’t likely to show up on any respected critic’s top 10 list, but it also offers more amusement per dollar budgeted than any children’s cartoon, high-concept comedy or [...]
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From YouTube via Cinematical, here’s a crappy, blurry, Spanish bootleg trailer of The Argentine, the first half of Steven Soderbergh’s Che. I normally hate these kinds of things, but it’s Soderbergh so here you go. I’m still not watching it, but don’t let that stop you.
Alas, as THR noted yesterday, the 4 hour epic still [...]
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…you see nothing but muck all around you. In this case, Defamer takes a peek at the new trailer for Disney’s The Princess and the Frog and, instead of noting the hand drawn animation, they claim the firefly at the end is a racial stereotype straight out of “Song of the South 2: Cajun Vacation.”
Defamer [...]
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Awards Daily’s Sasha Stone points us back to Tom O’Neil’s claim that Melissa Leo is a diva. Thelma Adams, the author of the original interview, has weighed into the comments section to tell him he’s wrong. The comments are listed in reverse order with the newest at the top so scroll down to see what Ms. Adams said…or [...]
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So, Howard Stern wants to remake the cult classic Rock ‘n’ Roll High School. The original channeled some of the anarchic energy of punk rock into a goofy teen rebellion picture. Tell me: what popular music of today has any danger in it whatsoever? Are you going to incite revolution with The Ting Tings? I [...]
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Courtney Hunt’s Frozen River
It’s another sketchy week at the multiplex, so I’m leading off with the limited releases again:
Frozen River. Melissa Leo (21 Grams, TV’s Homicide: Life on the Streets) stars as a single mother who turns to smuggling illegal Chinese and Pakistani immigrants from Canada across the frozen St. Lawrence River in order to [...]
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The once proud LA Times takes a breath in between Shia LaBeouf updates just long enough for Tom O’Neil to take a dump all over Melissa Leo, the actress currently seeing the first waves of Oscar buzz for her performance in Frozen River.
At issue for Tommy O is a Huffington Post interview with Thelma Adams [...]
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Richard Widmark in Jules Dassin’s Night and the City (1950)
Heads up. Our friends over at MovieZeal are launching Noir Month on Friday. That’s right. 31 days of wall-to-wall noir action with daily reviews and articles from Evan, Luke and Phillip plus a host of guest writers including many names that will be familiar to readers of [...]
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Enzo G. Castellari’s Quel maledetto treno blindato (aka Inglorious Bastards), the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming film will play at LA’s New Beverly Cinema Wednesday and Thursday night along with Castellari’s La Battaglia d’Inghilterra (aka Battle Squadron).
Bastards tells the story of a group of 5 GIs facing court-martial in France. When their convoy is attacked, they escape [...]
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Keys. Alicia Keys.
Billboard says the new Bond theme song will be called Another Way to Die and it will be recorded by Alicia Keys and Jack White, the first duet in Bond soundtrack history.
I like Jack White a lot, but I’m not sure I like him for a Bond theme. I also hate the title because [...]
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More than a week has gone by without any Inglorious Bastards news, but Variety saves the day by reporting that Universal Pictures is close to partnering with the Weinstein Company on bringing the World War II flick to a screen near you.
Near the end of the short article, Michael Flemming and Tatiana Siegel realize this [...]
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Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris in Return of the Dragon (aka Way of the Dragon)
With an eye toward the action scenes in The Dark Knight, Dennis Lim offered up an interesting video slideshow in Slate yesterday illustrating the evolution of fight scenes through the ages.
See Gregory Peck and Charlton Heston fighting old school under a [...]
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Here’s a quick rundown of some of the news in the last 24 hours or so.
The LA Times speculates on whether The Dark Knight will surpass Titanic’s hallowed $600.8 million domestic box office mark, but unless you account for inflation (ticket prices averaged $4.69 in 1998 compared to an expected $7 this year), it doesn’t [...]
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