An entertaining and refreshingly adult thriller that mostly overcomes the weaknesses of its source material with plenty of style and intelligence and a raft of excellent performances.
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BURIED gets bought, plus the documentary about Pat Tillman and scenes from a marriage between Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams.
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Want to see another Shutter Island trailer? I haven’t watched the other ones and I’m not watching this one, but don’t let that stop you. I’m told the second trailer was the same as the first. Had I watched either one, I might’ve known this.
Based on the novel by Dennis Lehane, Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island [...]
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I managed to avoid the first trailer for Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island and I’m not about to break down and watch this one. I have no idea how it’s different than the first one, but enjoy.
In case you’ve forgotten, the film based on Dennis Lehane’s novel stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, [...]
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Philip Seymour Hoffman, Michelle Williams and Tom Noonan in Synecdoche, New York
One of the great pleasures of going to the movies is watching an artist set caution aside to make something big and powerful and true. Whether or not they completely succeed is sometimes beside the point. In the case of Synecdoche, New York, Oscar-winning [...]
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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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Here’s the trailer for Kelly (Old Joy) Reichardt’s Wendy and Lucy. Michelle Williams plays Wendy, a young woman whose road trip from Indiana to Alaska with her dog Lucy stalls out in a small Oregon town.
Having already played Cannes, Toronto and New York, Wendy and Lucy will hit AFI Fest in November and will open [...]
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Michael J. Smith Sr. in Ballast
Ready or not, it’s officially awards season with the IFP announcing its nominees for the 18th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards (formerly known as the Gotham Awards).
Several films that might be familiar to you if you’ve been reading LiC lately have been showered with a little early awards loving and [...]
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