Brian Cox in Red
With another DVD new release Tuesday around the corner, here’s a look at some of films you may have missed when they played in theaters.
Red *** 1/2
This little low-budget number snuck in and out of theaters at the tail end of an exhausting summer season. It’s a simple, pulpy tale about a [...]
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Did someone turn the clock back to the 1950s when I wasn’t looking? I’m sure Kevin Smith and The Weinstein Co. were expecting a little controversy over Smith’s romantic comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno — indeed they were probably hoping for it — but who’d have thought that TV stations and newspapers would [...]
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Ordinarily I run screaming from movies about Christmas, but this one is different. Arnaud Desplechin (Kings and Queen) brings us Catherine Deneuve, her daughter Chiara Mastroianni, Mathieu Amalric and Emmanuelle Devos in a French dysfunctional family Christmas.
A Christmas Tale (Un Conte de Noël) premiered at this year’s Cannes to good reviews. It can next be [...]
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Variety’s Anne Thompson has the poster for Danny Boyle’s Oscar-buzzed Slumdog Millionaire. Click the image to see the whole thing.
The true story of a poor street kid from Mumbai who wins top prize on a million dollar game show is set to play the upcoming AFI Fest and it will hit theaters on November 28.
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In the wake of John Hillcoat’s The Road officially getting bumped to 2009, the LA Times’ Patrick Goldstein spoke with Harvey Weinstein about the juggling going on with a number of his other films. Speculation is that The Weinstein Co. is low on money, but Harvey has a rational answer for each move.
Fanboys. The story [...]
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Eagle-eyed and ever-vigilant Nick Plowman noticed that Apple has the new Gran Torino trailer that’s supposed to be playing this weekend in front of Changeling.
74 bonus points to Jennybee for anticipating the “Get off my lawn!” line in the poster thread.
Click the image below for Apple’s Gran Torino trailer page.
I like the trailer. The simple [...]
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Though one of its central characters turns out to be a vampire, Sweden’s Let the Right One In is not quite a horror film. Working from the best selling novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, director Tomas Alfredson is more interested in the story’s central relationship between a troubled 12-year-old boy and the strange girl who [...]
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AFI announced this evening that John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams will fill in for the The Soloist as the opening night film for AFI Fest on October 30.
According to Miramax president Daniel Battsek: “The movie is still being finished, but we were so excited to show Doubt and [...]
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Back in 2005 when Steven Soderbergh wrote the forward for a book about lo-fi band Guided by Voices, he asked author/band member James Greer to write a rock opera for him that he hoped would star Catherine Zeta-Jones as Cleopatra.
It sounds like a joke, but apparently Soderbergh is ready to roll on the project and [...]
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It’s all about the limited releases this week, but let’s get the wide releases out of the way first.
High School Musical 3: Senior Year. Being a Disney film, I’m guessing no one ends up passed out in the back of a rented limo on prom night with her dress pulled up over her head and [...]
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McPaper has the first look at the poster for Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino. Click the image to see the whole thing largified. It reminds me of something from the ’70s…like Walking Tall.
The film about a racist Korean War veteran living in Detroit is set to open December 17. The trailer is supposed to premiere this [...]
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A press release went out this evening announcing that Paramount cancelled AFI Fest’s opening night world premiere of The Soloist due to the film’s release date change.
A new film will be announced on Thursday.
Will it be another Paramount film? Will it be Benjamin Button?
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I was the last person to know Zack Snyder’s Watchmen adaptation was actually going to be R-rated, but now it’s official. The Hollywood Reporter published the latest batch of MPAA ratings today and Watchmen pulled an R for strong graphic violence, sexuality, nudity and language. If you read the comic, you likely agree this is [...]
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Back in February, LiC passed along a Variety report that David Fincher had signed on to direct Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary’s adaptation of Charles Burns’ 12-issue comic Black Hole. As big fans of Mr. Fincher (Zodiac) and Mr. Gaiman (The Sandman comic) and with a growing appreciation for Mr. Burns (see Fear(s) of the Dark), [...]
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Boo!
From France, Fear(s) of the Dark is a nightmarishly entertaining collection of short films on a theme of fear animated in beautiful black and white by six renowned graphic artists including Blutch, Charles Burns, Pierre de Sciullo, Marie Caillou, Lorenzo Mattotti and Richard McGuire. Like many such omnibus efforts, some of the segments are better than [...]
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