It’s time once again to look past the obvious Tuesday DVD releases and shine a spotlight on movies you may have missed as they made their way through theaters. First up, the kind of film that Movies You May Have Missed was invented for.
The Band’s Visit (2007) ****
Eight Egyptian men representing the Alexandria Police Ceremonial Orchestra [...]
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While I’m still trying to scrape Step Brother from the bottom of my shoe, the folks at the Vulture scratch their heads over the divergent career paths of John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
The two actors started out on similarly promising paths and they even appeared in several films together including Paul Thomas Anderson’s [...]
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David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in X-FIles: I Want to Believe
First of all, thanks for helping make last week the busiest week ever at LiC. Traffic sagged during June, but it has been crawling back and last week was a record breaker. I’ve said it before: this wouldn’t be nearly as much fun if you [...]
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Stanley Kubrick would’ve turned 80 years old yesterday. He was the director I latched onto in high school when I first began to look at movies as an art form. Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb was the movie that did it and that’s why I keep the [...]
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Misty Upham and Melissa Leo in Frozen River
It seems strange to say an actress is on the rise when she’s been in 70 film and television productions including 21 Grams, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and most famously TV’s Homicide: Life on the Streets, but buzz is building around Melissa Leo.
She stars in Courtney Hunt’s [...]
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Michael and Mark Polish - Photo by Stephanie Diani for The New York Times
“The studios have really priced themselves out of a certain type of movie. They either want to make it for a limited amount of money, or they’ll go through the roof. We actually were in a meeting with a studio where they [...]
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1.5 laughs
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Filming was supposed to begin in mid-August on Ridley Scott’s Nottingham starring Russell Crowe as the Sherriff, but The Hollywood Reporter’s Gregg Kilday says the film has been put on hold due to “script concerns, location logistics and the current labor unrest.”
In a statement from Universal, the studio claims that everyone remains committed to the [...]
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Kevin Smith plans to appeal the latest decision by the MPAA to give Zack & Miri Make a Porno an NC-17. This is apparently the 3rd time the MPAA has come back with the adults only rating and according to /film, Smith says he’s edited it all he can. Apparently at issue is some “thrusting” [...]
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Counting Friday’s estimates, The Dark Knight is approaching the $262 million mark and should be very close to $300 million by the end of the weekend [Update: The Dark Knight crossed $300 million on Sunday]. It has made as much money in 8 days as the current number one film, Iron Man, made in 28.
Here’s [...]
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“Mr. Moore, will you sign my DVD of Watchmen Babies?”
Anne Thompson spoke to Zack Snyder prior to the Watchmen panel at Comic-Con on Friday and, though the panel itself sounded like a snooze (read about it here if you must), Anne dug up some interesting information.
A year or so ago when Watchmen first started gaining [...]
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Image ©2008 Jean-Louis Blondeau / Polaris Images
“If I die, what a beautiful death. To die in the exercise of your passion.” - Philippe Petit
“It was so beautiful. It was like he was walking on a cloud.” - Annie Allix
It’s difficult to watch a man walking a tightrope between the two towers of New York’s World [...]
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Everything’s for sale, including the golden years of my movie youth. Click the picture above to link to a JC Penney commercial that will supposedly be playing in movie theaters this weekend. Then wash the aftertaste out of your mouth by watching the original in less than 7 minutes below. Whatever happened to John Hughes anyway?
Source: Defamer
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Still quivering in post-coital bliss over the vigorous tonguing they received from Hugh Jackman (plugging the upcoming Wolverine movie in a surprise visit), the Comic-Con masses in San Diego were sent into new convulsions of ecstasy by some unannounced footage from the sequel to Tron featuring Jeff Bridges. Referred to as Tr2n, reports vary as to [...]
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I yawned when MGM announced it might reboot RoboCop last spring (and don’t even get me started on the execrable Red Dawn) and I didn’t pay much attention when Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for Dream, The Fountain and the upcoming The Wrestler) was tossed around as a name, but word today that he has signed on to [...]
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