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Weekend Forecast: ‘Repo Men’ and ‘Bounty Hunter’ open wide, ‘Greenberg,’ ‘Dragon Tattoo’ and ‘Runaways’ in limited release

You can keep the wide releases this weekend, but there’s some good stuff opening in limited release including Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg starring Ben Stiller, the Swedish mystery thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and the music bio The Runaways.
If nothing here grabs you, check out what else is now playing updated each Friday.
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Weekend Forecast: Matt Damon in Green Zone and Bong Joon-Ho’s Mother

The highlight of the wide releases this weekend is Paul Greengrass’ thriller Green Zone starring Matt Damon. In limited release we’ve got Bong Joon-Ho’s terrific Mother and opening in New York is the screenwriting documentary Tales from the Script. As always, if none of these melt your butter, take a look at the cornucopia of [...]

Weekend Forecast: Go ask Alice

If ALICE IN WONDERLAND isn’t your cup of tea, be sure to catch Roman Polanski’s twisty thriller THE GHOST WRITER starring Ewan McGregor

Weekend Forecast: Has Kevin Smith copped out?

If you’re dying for comedy or horror, you might have some fun with this weekends two new wide releases, but I’m going to cut to the chase and recommend you seek out Jacques Audiard’s Oscar nominated A Prophet, Don Argott’s terrific documentary The Art of the Steal or the Indie Spirit nominated Easier With Practice.
Don’t [...]

Weekend Forecast: Shutter Island, Ghost Writer, Oscar shorts

Can you hear the ice breaking as Cinematic Winter begins to thaw? It’s kind of a strange weekend with only one new wide release, but that one release happens to be from a fella what goes by the name Martin Scorsese so enthusiasm around the LiC head offices is high – not to mention one [...]

Weekend Forecast: Full Moon Fever

On the wide release front, one hopes that The Wolfman will take full advantage of its cast and deliver some fun, though one isn’t getting crazy with optimism. As for Valentine’s Day, Garry Marshall should be classified as an instrument of torture and banned by signatories of the Geneva Conventions. Meanwhile, the fine citizens of [...]

Weekend Forecast: Looks like six more weeks of movie winter

Ordinarily I’d say “better late than never” when it comes to the Weekend Forecast, but a quick glance at the new wide releases for the first weekend of February reveals a lineup that is probably just as well forgotten. If you live in New York, I recommend you check out The Red Riding Trilogy. If [...]

Weekend Forecast: January ends with a wimper

Lowlights opening this weekend include Mel Gibson’s EDGE OF DARKNESS and Kristen Bell’s WHEN IN ROME

Weekend Forecast: Saints, angels and fairies

Ladies and gentlemen, the single worst week of new releases I’ve had the displeasure of bringing to you in the nearly three years I’ve been doing the Weekend Forecast.

Weekend Forecast

Another quiet week for new wide releases, but Peter Jackson’s somewhat underrated LOVELY BONES goes wide and Andrea Arnold’s terrific FISH TANK opens in NY.