You’ve read the reviews, you’ve seen the poster, now Apple has the trailer for Nicole Holofcener’s Please Give starring Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Amanda Peet and Rebecca Hall.
It opens on April 30th.
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Nicole Holofcener’s Please Give popped on to LiC radar with a slew of mostly favorable reviews out of Sundance and now Hitfix debuts the official poster for the film starring Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt as a Manhattan couple waiting for their aging neighbor to die off so they can expand into the apartment next [...]
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I’ll be getting my first look at the Red Riding Trilogy tonight… all three films in a row.
Based on four novels by David Pearce which are in turn partly based on the real life “Yorkshire Ripper” case that plagued England in the 1970s, Red Riding was originally produced for English television and has played to [...]
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Sundance round-up: Holofcener, Guggenheim tackles education, Kristin Stewart strips for James Gandolini, a Jihadist farce, but Ryan Reynolds BURIED in a box might be the find of the festival.
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I admit it. I’m a sucker for serial killer stories. This one is a trilogy originally produced for English television based on four novels by David Pearce which are in turn partly based on the real life “Yorkshire Ripper” case that plagued England in the 1970s. Each film in the trilogy is directed [...]
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Michael Sheen as David Frost and Frank Langella as Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon
Frost/Nixon is one great scene surrounded by a Ron Howard picture. Whether that’s good news or bad news depends on your patience for the director’s trademark incapacity for subtlety or nuance. I have little, but in this case he’s a bit less irritating [...]
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Frost/Nixon: surprisingly un-crappy
My part of this week’s Watercooler is Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon. I went in with low expectations but an open mind and surprisingly it wasn’t too bad. It’s occasionally marred by Howard’s trademark lack of subtlety – he’s not just content to tell rather than show, first he tells and then he shows – but [...]
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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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Javier Bardem and Scarlett Johansson in Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Like a fleeting love affair in a beautiful foreign country, Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona is probably best appreciated for what it is rather than analyzed for what it means. It’s a bit of a trifle to be sure, but a supremely engaging and entertaining one. More [...]
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It’s late so I’ll spare you the story of the drunk guy form Michigan at the Arclight bar who tried to share the secret of The Secret with me (“I’m not gay but you have amazing, mystical green eyes.” Wah??!) and I’ll pass up the trailers to get right to the weekend’s movies.
LiC’s first rule [...]
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