The trades are weighing in on the new Keira Knightley film The Duchess.
THR’s Kurt Honeycutt likes Knightley but calls Saul Dibb “a sturdy but uninspired director,” adding that he “brings no Shekhar Kapur visual or dramatic flamboyance to the task of bringing Georgiana’s life to the screen. So Duchess will satisfy those who enjoy costume [...]
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One of the favorite games of studios and entertainment journalists alike is looking under rocks to find the next big indie sensation. Studios want the break-out hit and journalists want to be the first to proclaim the next Juno or the next Little Miss Sunshine. This year, eyes are turning to Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire [...]
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Judging an entire movie by 20 minutes is madness, but SpoutBlog’s Karina Longworth has seen the preview of David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at Telluride and she liked it. In my book, she’s kind of an anti-fanboy and also one of the sharper characters out there when it comes to indie films [...]
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Merry Christmas movie fans
I know winter technically begins in December, but as far as LiC is concerned, the year is broken up into three general movie-going seasons. January to April is Movie Limbo where studios dump films they don’t believe in or don’t know how to handle. Luckily, there is also usually a crop of [...]
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Rachel McAdams is the other woman and Chris Cooper
is the unfaithful husband in Married Life
It’s a solid week for Movies You May Have Missed. Here are a few more below-radar films that are coming to DVD on Tuesday.
Reprise (2006) ****
Here’s a great movie that I never got around to reviewing, but this is what I [...]
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Julianne Moore in Blindness
One of the more anticipated films going into Cannes last spring was Blindness, the opening night selection from Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardner) about a mysterious epidemic that causes people to go blind. With Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore, Danny Glover and Gael Garcia Bernal, it seemed like it couldn’t [...]
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What am I not getting about this movie?
Source: Rope of Silicon
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Daniel Craig is James Bond in Quantum of Solace
With a few exceptions, November isn’t feeling like a very strong month for movies. There are several decent prospects, but the filler isn’t as interesting. Here’s hoping the Harry Potter Reshuffle will attract another title or two between now and then. Either way, we continue. Fine print: [...]
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Following an Islamic civil rights group’s call for a name change of Alan Ball’s upcoming Towelhead, Warner Bros.’ initial response could be paraphrased as something like “ummm…no.”
Yesterday, Alicia Erian, the Arab-American author of the source novel defended the title.
“As an Arab-American woman, I am of course aware that the title of my book is an [...]
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99% of the stuff I bring to LiC is initiated by me and is filtered through my own interests and my own vision of what LiC should be. From time to time, a publicist will bring something to my attention and I’m happy to pass it along if it fits within the bounds of what [...]
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Controversial filmmaker Todd Solondz (Welcome to the Dollhouse, Storytelling) has found someone to cough up the cash to pay for a sequel/companion piece to his blackly comic Happiness.
New indie production house Werc Werk Works will finance the project that once had Demi Moore, Paul Reubens and Emma Thompson attached. If it’s anything like the original, [...]
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Three better choices for your weekend than any of the new releases
Ladies and gentlemen, I present the worst week for new releases I’ve seen since I started doing the Weekend Forecast 70 some weeks ago. Do yourself a favor. Skip all of these and just go see Trouble the Water, Man on Wire or Vicky Cristina [...]
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Brian Cox in Red
Brian Cox (Rushmore, Zodiac) is Avery Ludlow, a quiet, sensible man living alone with his old dog Red in a big, out of the way house in rural Oregon. The film begins more than a decade after the tragic loss of his wife and son and Avery has mostly put his life [...]
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It seems perfectly foolish to link to a review that I’m not going to read and this probably isn’t even the first official review of Joel and Ethan Coen’s Burn After Reading, but it’s the first one that’s come across my newsfeeds and this is how I roll when it comes to the Brothers Coen.
Here’s [...]
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Philip Seymour Hoffman and Samantha Morton in
Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York
Moving right along with the Fall Forecast. Here’s what’s coming up in October. Once again, all dates are subject to change based on studio whim. LiC’s picks are starred.
October 3
An American Carol. I love Airplane! as much as anyone, but David Zucker’s name hasn’t been attached [...]
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