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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