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Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | yesterday
This week Turner Classic Movies announced additional information about its TCM Classic Film Festival , which will be held next April in Hollywood. Leonard Maltin, Peter Bogdanovich, and Douglas Trumbull are the first names announced to appear at the Festival. The first films announced to be screened at the festival include a restored copy of A STAR IS BORN (1954) and a presentation of 2001: A SPACE...
Entertainment Weekly (Free subscription) | yesterday
Owen Gleiberman: Documentary list favors movies that are ''good for you'' over just plain GOOD ones
Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | yesterday
I picked up the Criterion edition of The Royal Tenenbaums for The Husband because I had heard it was a good comedy but didn't give it to him because, as I read a bit about it, it just didn't seem to be his "type" of comedy -too much tragedy in the midst of it all, maybe. I ended up putting it in the stack with all the other to-be-watched DVDs, and the Younger Son picked it tonight. We liked...
Snarky Gossip (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sooo….who went and saw New Moon last night? I’m waiting until it shows up on DVD, yes, I’m cheap. New Moon opened up to extremely lackluster reviews; here are just a few: Early reviews at Rotten Tomatoes gave it a sad little 4.9 out of 10. Ouch. Roger Ebert says “Since they know it all and we know all, sitting through this experience is like driving a pickup in low gear though...
High-Def Digest: All Hig (Free subscription) | yesterday
Not to sound like a Scrooge, but to paraphrase Roger Ebert, I hated, hated, hated 'Four Christmases.' I really mean that. This movie is atrocious. Warner Bros., having not learned from the painful commercial...
Vulture (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last year, Twilight proved to zillions of shrieking Twi-hards that no matter how passionately you love a florid, overwritten, hilarious book, the movie can be even better . How will this year's installment, New Moon , fare with a new director (the non-vagina-having Chris Weitz) and a new love interest (Jacob Black, played by Taylor Lautner)? Good news! Once again, Hollywood magic has delivered a version...
Premium Hollywood (Free subscription) | yesterday
I feel I owe a lot to Roger Ebert, not only as a role model, but lately as a great guy to steal videos from. Yes, this is the second time I have plundered from this post. What can I say about the dean of American movie critics, the man’s got good taste.
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
"It's been a decade since Ben (Mark Duplass) and Andrew (Joshua Leonard) were college bad boys. Ben is living contently with a good job and a great wife, until his old buddy Andrew shows up on his doorstep late one night. Andrew, who lives as a vagabond artist, invites Ben out to a wild party. Excessive drinking combined with the irrational need to one-up each other leads to a mutual dare that...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Where was possibly retirement-contemplating director Chris Weitz around lunchtime today, mere hours before the release of The Twilight Saga: New Moon ? Sitting in the back of a Town Car snarled in Manhattan traffic, answering Vulture’s questions. We caught up with him en route from an interview on Elvis Mitchell’s radio show to a taping of the director’s cut for the DVD. He talked...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Over on The Projectionist, New York film critic David Edelstein reveals his thoughts on the movie that opens a mere eight hours and 50 minutes from now, New Moon . He admires the frenzy that happens every time Edward and Bella come together onscreen, but also notes that "[Director Chris] Weitz’s compositions have no spark, though, and his pacing is so flaccid that you’re going to...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
One of the pleasures of going to film festivals are the Q&A sessions afterwards. If you read humour pieces regarding this aspect of the festival experience, they are often snarky little pieces about the awful questions fielded by audience members, or folks trying to pass the director along a screenplay or simply blubbering "I love all your movies" in the starstruck awe. Yes, those things...
The Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
A couple of 5-star worthy TCM news items to bring across the bow of the Shelf, and more from around the Shelf neighborhood: You may already know that Turner Classic Movies is hosting their first annual TCM Classic Film Festival April of 2010 in Hollywood, CA. They will be presenting more than 50 classic films, and hosted by Robert Osborne- with many talks and special guests such as Leonard Maltin,...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
When Summit Entertainment surpisingly canned Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke from New Moon in favor of Chris Weitz , who just so happens to be a penis-having dude, many predicted that the franchise would take a disappointing turn. Aside from the fact that the second entry in the four-part Twilight franchise features very little of Edward Cullen, that sparkle-chested hunk of lustful vampire meat,...
L.A. Times - Latin America Blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Kenneth Turan reviews "2012," the latest disaster movie portraying the end of the world. The movie is directed by Roland Emmerich, who seems to be stuck on the same theme, after movies like "The Day After Tomorrow" and "Independence Day." "2012" is based on a premise apparently laid out in an ancient carved monument found in the Mayan region, which covers the...
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Much of what's wrong with New Moon seems tracable to director Chris Weitz. In the view of L.A. Times critic Kenneth Turan, Weitz is a "polished" and "smooth professional who makes the vampire trains of Melissa Rosenberg's capable script run on time, but he almost seems too rational a director for this kind of project. This lack of animating madness combined with the novel's demands give...
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"I was a fan of both his work and a fan of him as a person. The world has lost not only a quintessential filmmaker whose influence will be felt for generations, but a great and decent man." – actor MACAULAY CULKIN • "John was an amazing mentor to me during the time we were shooting Curly Sue . He had a childlike spirit that connected us instantly and always made me feel loved. He will be missed but...
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