Yes it’s a Swedish movie with a vampire, but more than anything Let the Right One In is a tender and surprisingly sweet coming of age tale.
It’s about a little boy who is bullied at school and though it’s true that the little girl who moves in next door might be a vampire, the supernatural elements [...]
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Eileen Walsh in Eden, a Liberation Entertainment Release
Photo credit: Bernard Walsh
It’s not set to be officially released until November, but Declan Recks’ Irish marriage drama Eden kicks off the Los Angeles Irish Film Festival on Thursday, and it’s playing the annual Woodstock Film Festival on Thursday and Saturday. Besides that, it’s a terrific film and [...]
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On the set of Coraline (David Strick)
One of the last cool things the LA Times does is its Hollywood Backlot feature that consists of behind-the-scenes photographs from Hollywood photographer David Strick. It almost makes up for ghastly Elizabeth Snead. Not quite, but almost.
This week, Strick takes a look at Henry (The Nightmare Before Christmas) Selick’s stop-motion animated [...]
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Miramax would like to remind you that Mike Leigh’s charming Happy-Go-Lucky is coming to limited release on October 10 with expansions planned for subsequent weekends. In the mean time, you can get your very own Daily Dose of Happiness Happy-Go-Lucky widget:
Sally Hawkins plays Poppy, an unfailingly optimistic schoolteacher whose glowing worldview is challenged on all sides when [...]
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Feihong Yu and Henry O in Wayne Wang’s A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
(photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures)
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, the latest film from indie icon Wayne Wang (Chan is Missing, Dim Sum, The Joy Luck Club) opens in New York on September 19 and Los Angeles on September 26 while a [...]
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Back in August, our friend Ryan Adams over at Awards Daily ran the poster and trailer for the upcoming Flash of Genius starring Greg Kinnear. I liked the poster, but the true-life story of one man fighting the auto industry didn’t reach out and grab me right away.
Kinnear plays Robert Kearns, the man who invented [...]
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As I was preparing the Fall Forecast for December, I came across a computer-animated fantasy adventure called Delgo that I’d never heard of. For whatever reason, I left it off the list, but it turns out the December 12 release date was surprising news to people who have been following this project for a long [...]
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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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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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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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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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George Clooney and Frances McDormand in Burn After Reading
You can almost hear the air being let out of the summer movie season. Overall it was a pretty decent four months of movies, but I for one am glad to see it coming to an end. Now it’s time to look forward to the last third [...]
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Kimberly Rivers Roberts and Scott Roberts on a good day in Trouble the Water
I caught up recently with a couple of documentaries that made their respective marks at Sundance last January. The gripping and moving hurricane Katrina documentary Trouble the Water ended up winning the jury documentary prize while the crowd-pleasing American Teen received enthusiastic [...]
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