The abbreviated Weekend Forecast is rolling out a little early this week because all the new releases are hitting on Wednesday. That’s tomorrow for those of you keeping score at home.
Opening in wide release:
Australia. Baz Luhrman’s epic adventure romance takes place on the eve of World War II as English aristocrat Nicole Kidman travels Down [...]
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Another strange weekend for new releases is upon us as Hollywood seems to be taking a little pause before the Thanksgiving holiday. If you’re above a certain age, you’re forgiven for not really knowing or caring much about the two big wide releases. However, if you’re in the target audience, this is one of the [...]
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Mathieu Amalric and Catherine Deneuve in the LiC pick of the week:
Arnaud Desplechin’s A Christmas Tale
Kind of a strange lineup this week with only one new wide release, a few limited releases and a handful of movies opening in New York only. Nevertheless, there is some great and potentially great stuff here. I highly recommend [...]
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I’m sorry to say it’s another mediocre looking weekend at the cinema in terms of new releases. If you live in Los Angeles, look for Ballast. If you live in New York, check out the documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell. If you live somewhere in between…well hopefully something good will expand into your [...]
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Elizabeth Banks and Seth Rogen in Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Because it’s Halloween, the multiplex is crammed with a lot of low-grade horror crap this weekend. Consider Let the Right One In or Fear(s) of the Dark if they’re in your neighborhood instead:
Zack and Miri Make a Porno. For every Kevin Smith worshipper, there’s [...]
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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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Hark. I hear the cannons roar. Is it the weekend approaching? It is. Let’s take a look at the new movie lineup.
W. Generally lukewarm reviews aren’t doing much to give me hope for Oliver Stone’s treatment of George W. Bush, but I still want to see some of the performances, especially Josh Brolin’s.
The Secret Life [...]
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Wong Kar-Wai’s Ashes of Time Redux, opening in limited release
There isn’t much to get too excited about in the wide releases this weekend:
Body of Lies. A Ridley Scott thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a CIA agent on the trail of a terrorist leader. He is guided from afar by CIA veteran Russell Crowe but with his life [...]
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The wide releases are a mixed bag this week so let’s cut through the crap and lead off with a couple of movies that are only playing in limited release but have received the coveted LiC stamp of approval.
Ballast Stark, minimalist and naturalistic, Ballast may not be the feel-good movie of the fall, but it’s a [...]
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Choke: The LiC pick of the week
The wide releases are a mixed bag this week. I recommend you check out A Thousand Years of Good Prayers which comes to LA this weekend or Choke which opens in limited release.
Opening wide:
Eagle Eye. Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan play two innocent strangers who are blackmailed into participating in a [...]
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Viggo Mortensen and Ed Harris in Appaloosa opening in NY, LA and Toronto
Unless you live in New York or Los Angeles, this might be a good weekend to go see Burn After Reading again because there isn’t much to get excited about in this week’s new wide releases:
Ghost Town. Ricky Gervais is a dentist whose [...]
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Ethan Coen, Joel Coen and Mr. Angelina Jolie on the set of Burn After Reading
Open wide and say “Burn!”
Burn After Reading. Anyone who has read LiC for any length of time knows I’m completely in the tank for the Coen Brothers. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that I loved this movie. It’s fair to [...]
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Wow. I thought last weekend was a bad weekend for movies. This weekend is worse. Here’s the one new wide release:
Bangkok Dangerous. Hong Kong’s Pang Brothers (the original The Eye) direct Nic Cage in this English language action thriller about a badass hitman (Cage) who travels to Bangkok…where things are…dangerous. Unceremoniously dumped from the summer [...]
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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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Kimberly Rivers Roberts and Scott Roberts in Trouble the Water
Ouch. It looks like summer is over but the fall movie season still hasn’t begun. The wide releases look almost completely forgettable so, once again, I’ll dig into the slightly more promising limited releases first.
Trouble the Water. Coming from the producers of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for [...]
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