Apple has the first official trailer for Clint Eastwood’s Invictus, the rugby/Apartheid drama starring Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon as the captain of South Africa’s national rugby team.
I’m still not buying it. It looks earnest, socially conscious and borderline unbearable right down to the Ladysmith Black Mambazo music. Ok, I’m being a [...]
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Forget about the antics of Michael Moore, Chris Smith’s COLLAPSE looks like the capitalism documentary to see.
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Yahoo finally has the trailer for Paul Greengrass’ Green Zone starring Matt Damon and you can stream it after the jump.
Originally scheduled for 2009, the Iraq thriller was pushed back to March 12, 2010.
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Except in jest, I haven’t mentioned Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood since February when Cate Blanchett was lined up for the Maid Marian role (remember the semi-regular Production Notes column? Anyone miss it? No?).
Anyway, star Russell Crowe recently spoke to some douchey Australian morning news/chat tool and for some reason the interview struck me as interesting.
There [...]
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Cracks popped onto LiC radar when it premiered to decent reviews at Toronto in September and now Empire has the lovely UK quad featuring the beautiful Ms. Eva Green. In the film directed by Jordan Scott (Ridley’s Daughter), Green plays a teacher at a posh British boarding school in the 1930s.
Cracks will be looking for [...]
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Double BIFA nominee Katie Jarvis in Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank
This is the part where we start pausing and mentioning just about every awards and festival recognition that comes across the transom.
Here are the British Independent Film Awards. Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank, which I finally saw last night and will be writing about soon, got 8 [...]
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There’s only one new wide release this weekend and it’s opening today for some reason so I’m rolling out the Weekend Forecast a bit early. Don’t panic. It’s not Thursday. It’s still Tuesday.
Opening wide:
This Is It (Tue 10/27). Sony snapped up the rights to footage of Michael Jackson’s final rehearsals so fast I don’t think [...]
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